I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

Germany has recently made extensive reforms in its tertiary education system. Traditional degrees are being replaced by … traditional degree program has affected first-year students’ satisfaction. Three dimensions of student satisfaction are focused … upon: Student satisfaction with teaching, student satisfaction with the organization of the study programs, as well as an …

divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we … find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first year of marriage, increases the likelihood of a future separation … in the effect of happiness gaps: couples are more likely to break-up when the difference in life satisfaction is …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …

choices. Based on a stated preference experiment among potential car buyers from Germany, different mixed logit specifications …

income or formal education, but rather by environmental concerns and energy awareness. Although there is evidence for …

retrofits for existing houses in Germany. In the experiment, the approximately 400 sampled house owners could either choose a …

information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research …