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Wie schafft es die Zahl in die Politik? - Indikatorensätze im Spannungsfeld zwischen politisch Gewünschtem und statistisch Machbarem
Jochimsen, Beate; Raffer, Christian - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2014
Will die Politik evidenzbasierte Entscheidungen über die Steuerung gesamtgesellschaftlicher Wohlfahrt und Lebensqualität treffen, so bedarf sie statistisch abgesicherter Informationen über die vergangene, aktuelle und auch künftige Entwicklung relevanter Phänomene. Vor dem Diktum einer...
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Methodenmix hilft beim finden und auswählen von sozialen Indikatoren - Anmerkungen zur Methodik des Projektes "Gut leben in Deutschland"
Wagner, Gert G. - 2016
Dieser Beitrag entstand im Rahmen der wissenschaftlichen Beratung des Regierungsprojektes „Gut leben in Deutschland …“, das von 2014 bis 2016 lief und das vorläufig mit einem Bericht der Bundesregierung zur „Lebensqualität in Deutschland … zur Lebensqualität, nämlich um das finden und auswählen von konkreten Indikatoren, die die Lebensqualität in Deutschland …
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Lebenszufriedenheit und Wohlbefinden in Deutschland: Studie zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators
van Suntum, Ulrich; Prinz, Aloys; Uhde, Nicole - 2010
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The Optimal Choice of a Reference Standard for Income Comparisons: Indirect Evidence from Immigrants' Return Visits
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
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 incomeis not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell's model to establish a link between immigrants'...
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Late-Life Decline in Well-Being across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something Is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life
Gerstorf, Denis; Ram, Nilam; Mayraz, Guy; Hidajat, Mira; … - 2010
Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the UK, and the US, we examine...
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Choices Which Change Life Satisfaction: Similar Results for Australia, Britain and Germany
Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010
Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values,...
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What (If Anything) Do Satisfaction Scores Tell Us about the Intertemporal Change in Living Conditions
Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes - 2010
This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model...
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Happy House: Spousal Weight and Individual Well-Being
Clark, Andrew E.; Etilé, Fabrice - 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life...
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Behind the Curtain: The Within-Household Sharing of Income
Elsas, Susanne - 2011
The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction...
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Capabilities and Choices: Do They Make Sen'se for Understanding Objective and Subjective Well-Being? An Empirical Test of Sen's Capability Framework on German and British Panel Dat...
Muffels, Ruud; Headey, Bruce - 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....
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