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Zukunftsangst! : fear of (and hope for) the future and its impact on life satisfaction

Piper, Alan - 2014

The thoughts that an individual has about the future contribute substantially to their life satisfaction in a positive or negative direction. This is a result found via five different methods, some of which control for personality and disposition and the potential endogeneity of thoughts and...

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Choices which change life satisfaction : similar results for Australia, Britain and Germany

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2011

Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the … due to unmistakable evidence in the German Socio-Economic Panel that, during the last 25 years, over a third of the … precisely because it is purely a theory of stability. The paper is based on specially constructed panel survey files in which …

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Optimism, pessimism and life satisfaction : an empirical investigation

Piper, Alan T. - In: International review of economics : RISEC 69 (2022) 2, pp. 177-208

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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of … ; individual choice ; panel regression analysis ; SOEP …

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Choices which change life satisfaction : revising SWB theory to account for change

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Wagner, Gert G. - 2010

Using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 1984-2008, this paper analyses the effects of … ; individual choice ; panel regression analysis ; SOEP …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971047

Two-way causation in life satisfaction research : structural equation models with Granger-causation

Headey, Bruce; Muffels, Ruud J. A. - 2014

, nationally representative panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany. The models are based on a modified concept of Granger … encompass two-way causation and panel survey data. It transpires that our Granger-style models have satisfactory fits to the … panel data and are stable. Alternative models fit the data much less well. Substantively, we find that two-way causation is …

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Overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a representative sample

Ahrens, Steffen; Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Kassner, Bernhard - 2021

We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. To do so, we introduce a new method of eliciting overconfidence that is simple to understand, quick to implement, and captures respondents' excess confidence in their...

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Overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a representative sample

Bosch-Rosa, Ciril; Kassner, Bernhard; Ahrens, Steffen - 2024

We study the relationship between overconfidence and the political and financial behavior of a nationally representative sample. Consistent with theoretical predictions, our findings indicate that excessive confidence in one's judgment is associated with lower portfolio diversification, greater...

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Preparation of data from the new SOEP consumption module : editing, imputation, and smoothing

Marcus, Jan; Siegers, Rainer; Grabka, Markus M. - 2013

This documentation describes the data preparation of the new consumption module in the German Socio-Economic Panel …

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The Anatomy of Subjective Well-Being

Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Frijters, Paul; … - 2002

Subjective Well-Being has increasingly been studied by several economists. This paper fits in that literature but takes into account that there are different aspects of life such as health, financial situation, and job. We call them domains. In this paper, we consider Subjective Well-Being as a...

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