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What Else Are You Worried About?" – Integrating Textual Responses into Quantitative Social Science Research

Open-ended questions have routinely been included in large-scale survey and panel studies, yet there is some perplexity about how to actually incorporate the answers to such questions into quantitative social science research. Tools developed recently in the domain of natural language processing offer a wide range of options for the automated analysis of such textual data, but their implementation ...

Worries across time and age in the German Socio-Economic Panel study

We investigate how indicators of dissatisfaction—worries about a variety of life domains such as health, the state of the economy, and immigration—change across time and age in Germany based on Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. As expected, contemporary world events influenced respondents’ worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War; worries about both immigration ...

Examining the Effects of Birth Order on Personality

This study examined the long-standing question of whether a person’s position among siblings has a lasting impact on that person’s life course. Empirical research on the relation between birth order and intelligence has convincingly documented that performances on psychometric intelligence tests decline slightly from firstborns to later-borns. By contrast, the search for birth-order effects on personality ...

Successfully Striving for Happiness: Socially Engaged Pursuits Predict Increases in Life Satisfaction

Happiness is considered a highly desirable attribute, but whether or not individuals can actively steer their lives toward greater well-being is an open empirical question. In this study, respondents from a representative German sample reported, in text format, ideas for how they could improve their life satisfaction. We investigated which of these ideas predicted changes in life satisfaction 1 year ...

Nachfrage nach Krankenversicherung - eine Untersuchung des Wahlverhaltens der freiwillig Versicherten in Deutschland

Schätzungen von Lohnkurven für Westdeutschland mit einem verallgemeinerten Varianz-Komponenten-Modell

Arbeitseinkommen und Einkommensarmut in Westdeutschland von 1984 bis 1989

Fortschritte der Einkommensanalysen mit Paneldaten

Micro Income Change in the Federal Republic of Germany between 1984 and 1989

Eine Strategie zur Kontrolle von Längsschnittgewichtungen in Panelerhebungen - Das Beispiel des Sozio-Oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)