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Health Effects on Children's Willingness to Compete

Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schunk, Daniel - 2011

The formation of human capital is important for a society's welfare and economic success. Recent literature shows that child health can provide an important explanation for disparities in children's human capital development across different socio-economic groups. While this literature focuses...

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The prospects of the Baby Boomers: Methodological challenges in projecting the lives of an aging cohort

Westermeier, Christian; Rasner, Anika; Grabka, Markus M. - 2012

In most industrialized countries, the work and family patterns of the baby boomers characterized by more heterogeneous … working careers and less stable family lives set them apart from preceding cohorts. Thus, it is of crucial importance to … understand how these different work and family lives are linked to the boomers' prospective material well-being as they retire …

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Conversion of non-respondents in an ongoing panel survey: The case of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

Schräpler, Jörg-Peter; Schupp, Jürgen; Wagner, Gert G. - 2013

The results of a resurvey of non-respondents to the SOEP study carried out in 2006 show that this special effort of reinterviewing was relatively ineffective in two respects. First, the rate of successful conversions of passive to active respondents was low (less than 20 percent). Second, the...

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Sleep duration and life satisfaction

Piper, Alan T. - 2015

Sleep is an important part of life, with an individual spending an estimated 32 years of her life asleep. Despite this importance, little is known about life satisfaction and sleep duration. Using German panel data, it is shown that sleep is an important factor for life satisfaction and that...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work: Panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data...

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Parental child care time, income, and subjective well-being: A multidimensional polarization approach for Germany

Merz, Joachim; Peters, Normen - 2019

Neither market income nor consumption expenditure provides an adequate picture of individual standard of living. It is time which enables and restricts individual activities and is a further brick to a more comprehensive picture of individual well-being. In our study we focus on a prominent part...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the …

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Who buffers income losses after job displacement? The role of alternative income sources, the family, and the state

Fackler, Daniel; Hank, Eva - 2016

Using survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) this paper analyses to what extent alternative income sources, reactions within the household context, and redistribution by the state attenuate earnings losses after job displacement. Applying propensity score matching and fixed...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP): Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2007

After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...

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Analyzing the Labor Market Activity of Immigrant Families in Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K.; Sinning, Mathias - 2007

This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein … the family's current consumption. Using data for West Germany, we do not find evidence for such a specialization strategy …

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