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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600904
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You Can't Be Happier Than Your Wife: Happiness Gaps and Divorce
Guven, Cahit; Senik, Claudia; Stichnoth, Holger - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
This paper asks whether the gap in subjective happiness between spouses matters per se, i.e. whether it predicts divorce. We use three panel databases to explore this question. Controlling for the level of life satisfaction of spouses, we find that a higher satisfaction gap, even in the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008474603
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Occupation, prestige, and voluntary work in retirement: Empirical evidence from Germany
Lengfeld, Holger; Ordemann, Jessica - 2014
that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume … that when a person retires, the prestige value attached to their former occupation fades. The fact that volunteering has … volunteering during the observation window. Based on Kaplan-Meier-Failure-Estimates and complementary log-log hazard models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421052
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Auswirkungen von Referenzzeiträumen auf die Selbstangaben zum freiwilligen Engagement: Ergebnisse einer experimentellen Studie
Kelle, Nadiya; Burkhardt, Luise; Kausmann, Corinna; … - 2021
In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, inwiefern sich der Einsatz eines spezifischen Zeitfensters bei Survey-Abfragen zum ehrenamtlichen und freiwilligen Engagement - im Vergleich zu Survey-Abfragen mit unspezifischen Zeitfenstern - auf die Selbstangaben von Befragten auswirkt. Die...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012504540
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Occupation, Prestige, and Voluntary Work in Retirement: Empirical Evidence from Germany
Lengfeld, Holger; Ordemann, Jessica - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
that they will make a transition into volunteering after retirement. Following social production function theory, we assume … that when a person retires, the prestige value attached to their former occupation fades. The fact that volunteering has … volunteering during the observation window. Based on Kaplan-Meier-Failure-Estimates and complementary log-log hazard models …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896264
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Can raising instructional time crowd out student pro-social behaviour? Evidence from Germany
Krekel, Christian - 2017
-natural experiment. We find that this rise has a negative and sizeable effect on volunteering, both at the intensive and at the extensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641753
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Keeping up with the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context
Knies, Gundi; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - 2007
We test empirically whether people's life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600670
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Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - 2010
A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics in very tightly drawn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600940
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Keeping up with the Schmidts: An Empirical Test of Relative Deprivation Theory in the Neighbourhood Context
Knies, Gundi; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007
We test empirically whether people's life satisfaction depends on their relative income position in the neighbourhood, drawing on a unique dataset, the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics. Relative deprivation theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017460
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Income Comparisons among Neighbours and Life Satisfaction in East and West Germany
Knies, Gundi - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2010
A series of studies have suggested that changes in others' income may be perceived differently in post-transition and capitalist societies. This paper draws on the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP) matched with micro-marketing indicators of population characteristics in very tightly drawn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540167