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Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...
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This paper focuses on fraud detection in surveys using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data as an example for testing newly methods proposed here. A statistical theorem referred to as Benford's Law states that in many sets of numerical data, the significant digits are not uniformly distributed, as...
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using …). While previous papers have critically examined the German EU-SILC contribution in comparison to the cross-sectional data … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing …
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Posner (1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman's utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel...
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comparisons. These results challenge previous research suggesting that people are unconscious of the true impact of comparison … processes. Nevertheless, the results point to various difficulties in the measurement of social comparison processes andshow …
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This research investigates how family events in adult children's lives influence the timing of their parents' financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce, and...
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Deutschland durchgeführt hat. Ziel des Workshops war es, zur Klärung der Konsequenzen eines - aufgrund ökologischer Grenzen für … of Greenpeace Germany. The workshop aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the consequences of reduced …
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