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Adapting a methodology proposed in Das et al. (2011), this paper uses panel refreshments as a natural experiment to determine whether trends in stated utility measures observed in panel data are genuine or rather caused by measurement issues.
In:
Economics Letters
124 (2014), 2, 236-238
| Bert Van Landeghem
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2005,
| Leen Vandecasteele
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The aim of this article is to assess the importance of a life event perspective on poverty in relation to the traditional social stratification approach. Lately, poverty has often been seen as a life course risk associated with certain life events and less influenced by characteristics of social position. The empirical part of this article explores the importance of the life course perspective as well ...
In:
European Sociological Review
27 (2010), 2, 246-263
| Leen Vandecasteele
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Although weighting seems to be a popular strategy for coping with panel attrition in sociological research it is not clear how effective it is in reducing attrition bias. This article aims to fill this gap by giving an assessment of the effectiveness of weighting in the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). Estimates of the distribution of social class and education appear to be dropout biased ...
In:
European Sociological Review
23 (2007), 1, 81-97
| Leen Vandecasteele, Annelies Debels
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Using the longitudinal data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) we studied the effect of both partners’ education and occupational status on womens likelihood to exit the labour market and to become a housewife. The event-history analyses show that women partnered with high status men were more likely to exit the labour force than women with lower status partners. Yet, stronger than the effects of the ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
135 (2015), 1, 35-45
| Leen Vandecasteele, Frederike Esche
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The arguments for refinancing the European Union's (EU) higher education via higher tuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investment and offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasets on Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom (UK) we first estimate how graduates' private return on educational investment is likely to be ...
In:
European Journal of Political Economy
24 (2008), 2, 364-386
| Vincent Vandenberghe, Olivier Debande
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In this research I assess within-group inequality—earnings inequality occurring among otherwise similar individuals based on observed characteristics—in a cross-national comparative perspective. While scholarly interest in the within-group portion of inequality has grown over the past 25 years, virtually all studies focus on the US case. The current research shifts focus by assessing within-group inequality ...
In:
European Sociological Review
34 (2018), 3, 286-303
| Tom VanHeuvelen
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In:
Bild der Wissenschaft
(2011), 8, 58-66
| Cornelia Varwig
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In:
Bild der Wissenschaft
50 (2013), 10, 68-70
| Cornelia Varwig
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Wiesbaden:
Bundesinsitut für Bevölkerungsforschung (BiB),
1994,
(Materialien zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft Sonderheft 24)
| Laszlo A. Vaskovics, Manfred Garhammer, Norbert F. Schneider, Otmar Kabat vel Job