This paper analyzes the causal relationships between marriage and subjective well-beingin a longitudinal data set spanning 17 years. We find evidence that happier singles opt more likelyfor marriage and that there are large differences in the benefits from marriage between couples.Potential, as...

“Population” is often a significant unit of analysis, and a point of passage for facts and models moving between the natural and social sciences, and between animals and humans. But the very existence of a population is a “fact” fraught with challenges: What distinguishes a population...

The paper draws upon the work of T.W. Schultz to show that human capital theory andlabor market adjustments have important implications for investing in people for the 21st Century.[...]

Deja vu - war schon immer so - tut sich nichts - da kann man nichts machen - wir haben schon alles probiert- wie soll ich das denn ändern? Entwicklung scheint schwierig zu sein, auf der Ebene des Individuums,sozialer Systeme oder ganzer Gesellschaften. Entwicklung wird möglich, so die These in...