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The previous literature on the determinants of individual well-being has failed to fully account for the interdependencies in well-being at the family level. This paper develops an ordered probit model with multiple random effects that allows to identify the intra-family correlation in well-being. The parameters of the model can be estimated with panel data using Maximum Marginal Likelihood. The approach ...
In:
Empirical Economics
30 (2005), 3, 749-761
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
The Journal of Socio-Economics
(2006), 35, 197-208
| Rainer Winkelmann
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In:
Journal of Health Economics
25 (2006), 1, 131-145
| Rainer Winkelmann
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The book provides graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Proper count data probability models allow for rich inferences, both with respect to the stochastic count process that generated the data, and with respect to predicting the distribution of outcomes. ...
Berlin:
Springer,
2008,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important predictor of well-being levels, but there ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
10 (2009), 4, 421-430
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can do more for their happiness than compensating them for doing nothing. But not all unemployed people are equally ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2014,
| Rainer Winkelmann
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Berlin, Heidelberg:
Springer,
2009,
| Rainer Winkelmann, Stefan Boes
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In:
G. Haag, K.G. Troitzsch, U. Müller ,
Economic Evolution and Demographic Change. Formal Models in Social Sciences
Heidelberg et al.: Springer-Verlag
321-329
| Rainer Winkelmann, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In:
P. Johnson, K. F. Zimmermann ,
Labour Markets in an Ageing Europe
Cambridge: Cambridge University
255-283
| Rainer Winkelmann, Klaus F. Zimmermann
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In:
H. Bunzel, et al. ,
Panel Data and Labour Market Dynamics
Amsterdam et al.: North-Holland
107-122
| Rainer Winkelmann, Klaus F. Zimmermann