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Blood Money: Incentives for Violence in NHL Hockey

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Vorell, Matthias - 2008

The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat since then, although to levels much larger than before the first team expansions in 1967. Using publicly available information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for...

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Zur subjektiven Lebenszufriedenheit der Deutschen im Kontext von tagesspezifischen und regionalen Einflussfaktoren: Eine empirische Analyse der Validität subjektiver Lebenszufriedenheitserhebungen anhand des Glückstrends 2013

Richter, Aljoscha - 2014

Die Arbeit analysiert die These, dass subjektive Einschätzungen der kognitivbilanzierenden Lebenszufriedenheit kaum valide Informationen über die tatsächliche Lebensqualität der Befragungspersonen liefern, da subjektive Einschätzungen durch kurzfristig wirksame Kontextereignisse und die...

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Perception vs. Experience: Explaining Differences in Corruption Measures Using Microdata

Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

Understanding corruption is at the heart of treating the dysfunctionality of many countries' public sectors. Yet, most corruption research suffers from one common problem: There is no "objective" measure of public-sector corruption for a cross-section of countries. Most studies on the...

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Perception vs. Experience: Explaining Differences in Corruption Measures Using Microdata

Gutmann, Jerg; Padovano, Fabio; Voigt, Stefan - 2019

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Zur Konstruktion eines Lebenszufriedenheitsindikators ("Glücks-BIP") für Deutschland

van Suntum, Ulrich - 2010

Trotz steigender Wirtschaftsleistung hat sich die Lebenszufriedenheit in Deutschland seit Beginn der 90er Jahre nicht erhöht, in Westdeutschland ist sie sogar gesunken. Mehr materieller Wohlstand bedeutet also nicht automatisch mehr Wohlstand im Sinne von Lebensglück. Was aber sind dann die...

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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 Benefits of Believing in Chance or Fate: External Locus of Control as a Protective Factor for Coping with the Death of a Spouse

Specht, Jule; Egloff, Boris; Schmukle, Stefan C. - 2010

The death of a spouse is an extremely stressful life event that consequently causes a large drop in life satisfaction. Reactivity to the loss, however, varies markedly, a phenomenon that is currently not well understood. Because lack of controllability essentially contributes to the stressful...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and preferences for redistribution

Siedler, Thomas; Sonnenberg, Bettina - 2012

This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals' preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study - whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate...

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Subjective Indicators

Rammstedt, Beatrice - 2009

Subjective indicators have been proven to possess predictive power for a large array of social and economic outcomes. However, most of these measures face serious psychometric shortcomings, namely that the items used are not psychometrically investigated. Further, for the assessment of one and...

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Approaches and methods for causal analysis of panel data in the area of morbidity and mortality

Hoffmann, Rasmus; Doblhammer, Gabriele - In: Comparative Population Studies (CPoS) 46 (2021), pp. 69-96

by reviewing methods used in the demographic literature. We classify these methods according to important criteria, such … literature for each of the methods and discuss the assumptions and the advantages and disadvantages of the methods for the … identification of causal effects in demographic morbidity and mortality research. The differentiation between methods that control …

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