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We explore the determinants of individual wellbeing as measured by self-reported levels of satisfaction with income and life. Making use of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we provide empirical evidence for wellbeing depending on absolute and relative income levels in a dynamic framework where status and signal effects play a role. This finding holds after controlling for other factors in a multivariate ...
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Economica
79 (2012), 314, S. 284-302
| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Joachim R. Frick
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Germany's water supply industry is characterized by a multitude of utilities and widely diverging prices, possibly resulting from structural differences beyond the control of firms' management, but also from inefficiencies. In this article, we use Data Envelopment Analysis and Stochastic Frontier Analysis to determine the utilities' Technical Efficiency (TE) scores based on cross-sectional data from ...
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Applied Economics
44 (2012), 29, S. 3749-3764
| Michael Zschille, Matthias Walter
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Models of cooperative and noncooperative behaviour opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, labour supply literature has so far largely ignored a broader issue - the distinction of single versus multi-family ("complex") households. We propose a method to account for multi-family household structure by borrowing from recent applications of ...
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Applied Economics
44 (2012), 22, S. 2907-2919
| Peter Haan, Michal Myck
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Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? In Germany, women exhibit both a lower entry rate into and higher exit rate from self-employment. To explain this gender gap, this study estimates a structural microeconometric model of transition rates that includes a standard risk aversion parameter. Inputs into the model are the expected value and variance of earnings from self-employment and dependent employment, ...
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Applied Economics
44 (2012), 14, S. 1795-1812
| Frank M. Fossen
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Interest in the effects of sleeping behavior on health and performance is continuously increasing - both in research and with the general public. Ecologically valid investigations of this research topic necessitate the measurement of sleep within people's natural living contexts. We present evidence that a new approach for ambulatory accelerometry data offers a convenient, reliable, and valid measurement ...
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PloS one
7 (2012), 10, 9 S.
| Cornelia Wrzus, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Timo von Oertzen, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future growth. Since 2006, the majority of countries ...
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Telecommunications Policy
36 (2012), 8, S. 608-620
| Nicola Jentzsch
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There is some research on personal reasons for saving money in the economic sciences. However, not much is known about the age differences of saving motives. In this vein, the future time perspective (FTP) is known to play a critical role for motivation across the life span. In this study, we introduce a new Saving Motive Inventory (SMI), which also covers saving goals after retirement. Furthermore, ...
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Zeitschrift für Gerontologie und Geriatrie
45 (2012), 8, S. 742-747
| Bernd Rager, Frieder R. Lang, Gert G. Wagner
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This paper explores welfare dynamics among households in rural Mozambique. Using household panel data, we test whether an asset-based poverty trap exists. Findings indicate that all rural households converge to one stable equilibrium in the medium term, which is close to the poverty line. This may indicate that households in rural Mozambique are collectively trapped in generalized underdevelopment. ...
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World Development
40 (2012), 8, S. 1594-1609
| Lena Giesbert, Kati Schindler
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This paper provides formulas for optimal top marginal tax rates when couples are taxed according to income splitting between spouses, consumption is taxed, and the skill distribution is unbounded. Optimal top marginal income tax rates are computed for Germany using a dataset that includes the tax returns of all German top taxpayers. We find that the optimal top marginal tax rate converges to about ...
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European Economic Review
56 (2012), 6, S. 1055-1069
| Stefan Bach, Giacomo Corneo, Viktor Steiner
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This paper assesses the validity of the perception-based governance indicators used by the US Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) for aid allocation decisions. By conducting Explanatory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis of data from 1996 to 2009, we find that although the MCA purports to measure seven distinct dimensions of governance, only two discrete underlying dimensions, the perceived "participatory ...
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World Development
40 (2012), 5, S. 900-915
| Martin Knoll, Petra Zloczysti