Umfragen der Langzeitstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) zeigen, dass Privatpersonen ab 16 Jahren in Deutschland im Jahr 2017 fast zehn Milliarden Euro spendeten. Das Spendenvolumen ist im Vergleich zum Jahr 2009 wesentlich angestiegen. Die Höhe liegt aufgrund methodischer Vorteile der...

This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...

Lifespan psychological research has long been interested in the contextual embeddedness of individual development. To examine if and how regional factors relate to between-person disparities in the progression of late-life well-being, we applied three-level growth curve models to 24-year...

Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological...

Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local...