Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

The presence of refugees in Germany and the challenges their integration poses have preoccupied the public for the past two years. According to the latest data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), many more people in Germany were concerned about migration and xenophobia last year than in 2013....

Die Präsenz Geflüchteter in Deutschland sowie die Herausforderungen ihrer Integration beschäftigen die Öffentlichkeit seit nunmehr zwei Jahren. Neuesten Zahlen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zufolge machten sich im vergangenen Jahr weitaus mehr Menschen in Deutschland Sorgen aufgrund...

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

Der Zustrom von Flüchtlingen nach Deutschland bestimmt seit Monaten die öffentliche Debatte. Nach der im Januar dieses Jahres durchgeführten Umfrage "Stimmungsbarometer zu Flüchtlingen in Deutschland" sieht etwas weniger als ein Drittel der Erwachsenen in Deutschland in der...

Since the beginning of 2016, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study has been conducting a monthly survey of German attitudes, expectations, and fears concerning migration. The third wave of the survey,-the Barometer of Public Opinion on Refugees in Germany (Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in...

Seit Beginn 2016 untersucht das "Stimmungsbarometer zu Geflüchteten in Deutschland" monatlich die mit dem Thema Migration verbundenen Einstellungen, Erwartungen und Befürchtungen der BürgerInnen in Deutschland. Die im März 2016 durchgeführte dritte Welle der Umfrage zeigt, dass weiterhin...

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and selfselection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...