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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality - A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008

This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...

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Is Posner Right? An Empirical Test of the Posner Argument for Transferring Health Spending from Old Women to Old Men

Schwarze, Johannes; Wunder, Christoph - 2016

-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present study conducts an … empirical test of this assumption. Our matching-based estimation reveals satisfaction trajectories of women who experience the … death of their spouse and identifies the causal effect of widowhood. The average level of satisfaction in a control group of …

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What (If Anything) Do Satisfaction Scores Tell Us About the Intertemporal Change in Living Conditions?

Wunder, Christoph - 2010

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends … within one year. This leads to the conclusion that the information content of satisfaction scores accentuates recent change …

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

satisfaction will be developed. In contrast to other subjective approaches, the present one benefits from the fact that no direct …

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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality : A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the Usa

Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus; Schwarze, Johannes - 2021

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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2021

Using merged data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this paper applies a parametric difference-in-differences approach to assess the real effects of the introduction of the euro on subjective well-being. A complementary nonparametric...

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