Social comparisons are an essential source of information about the self. Research in social psychology has shown individual variation in the tendency toward comparison with other people's opinions and abilities, raising the question of whether social comparisons are driven by psychological dispositions. To test the empirical validity of this proposition, Gibbons and Buunk (1999) created an instrument ...
Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a statistical ...
2011| Anika Rasner, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
Survey response rates are an important measure of the quality of a survey; this is true for both longitudinal and cross-sectional surveys. However, the concept of a response rate in the context of a panel survey is more complex than is the case for a cross-sectional survey. There are typically many different response rates that can be calculated for a panel survey, each of which may be relevant for ...
In:
Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
2 (2011), 2, S. 127-144
| Hayley Cheshire, Mary Beth Ofstedal, Shaun Scholes, Mathis Schröder
Berlin:
Duncker & Humblot,
2011,
VI S., S. 207-429
(Schmollers Jahrbuch ; 131, 2)
| Kathrin Leuze, Thomas Siedler, Ingrid Tucci, Arne Uhlendorff (Eds.)
Self-reported measures of health are generally treated as weak measures of respondents' objective health status. On the other hand, most surveys use self-reported health to measure health status and to determine the effects of a range of other socio-economic characteristics of the local environment on individual health. It is therefore of interest to the public health research community to verify the ...
2011| Jens Ambrasat, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner