The prevalence and importance of children's physical health problems have been increasingly recognized in recent years. Physical health problems of children such as obesity, motor impairment and chronic diseases cause social costs. Further, they can lead directly to adult physical health problems, which cause additional social costs. This paper examines the intergenerational link and transmission of ...
In:
Datengrundlagen für die Gesundheitsforschung in Deutschland
Wiesbaden : Statistisches Bundesamt
S. 115-128
Statistik und Wissenschaft ; 9
| Markus M. Grabka
We provide the first joint evidence on the relationship between individuals' cognitive abilities, their personality and earnings for Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, we employ scores from an ultra-short IQ-test and a set of measures of personality traits, namely locus of control, reciprocity and all basic items from the Five Factor Personality Inventory. Our estimates ...
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects ...
2008| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
Bonn:
IZA,
2008,
27 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 3915)
| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
Dordrecht [u.a.]:
Kluwer Academic Publ.,
2008,
238 S.
(Social Indicators Research Series ; 33)
| Valerie Moeller, Denis Huschka, Alex C. Michalos (Eds.)