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Throughout adulthood and old age, levels of well-being appear to remain relatively stable. However, evidence is emerging that late in life well-being declines considerably. Using long-term longitudinal data of deceased participants in national samples from Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, we examined how long this period lasts. In all 3 nations and across the adult age range, well-being ...
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Psychology and Aging
25 (2010), 2, S. 477-485
| Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Guy Mayraz, Mira Hidajat, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
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This paper examines whether schooling has a causal impact on individuals' political behavior. Between 1949 and 1969, the number of compulsory years of schooling in the Federal Republic of Germany was gradually increased across all federal states. These legislative changes provide an opportunity to investigate the causal impact of schooling on political behavior. Years of schooling are found to be positively ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
112 (2010), 2, S. 315-338
| Thomas Siedler
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This article examines the implications of moving to Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) for data quality by analyzing the transition from Paper-and-Pencil (PAPI) to Computer-Assisted Personal Interviewing (CAPI) on a subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) conducted using an "experimental design" in Wave 1. The 2,000 addresses for the sample E of SOEP were split into two subsamples ...
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Journal of Official Statistics
26 (2010), 2, S. 239-269
| Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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In Europe natural gas vehicles play a minor role. A decisive reason for this is the dependence of most European countries from gas imports. Except for Italy, there is no tradition to use natural gas as fuel. In addition, there is a lack of infrastructure (e.g. fuelling stations). In contrast to Europe, in Latin American and Asian countries natural gas vehicles are widespread. Some countries foster ...
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Energy Policy
38 (2010), 2, S. 1017-1029
| Hella Engerer, Manfred Horn
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This paper explores the use of informal credit as a strategy for managing risks by market women in northern Ghana. A broad concept of the costs of risk management strategies is introduced and encompasses both a time and monetary dimension. Based on qualitative data, the analysis reveals that market women invest a considerable amount of time in maintaining complex networks of informal credit providers ...
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Journal of Development Studies
46 (2010), 2, S. 234-253
| Kati Schindler
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In this article, the influence of conflict on the economies of neighbouring countries is discussed. The results from previous papers show a strong negative effect for an entire area around a country suffering from conflict, but this paper reaches a different conclusion, by using more recent data and adjusting the methodology previously employed. Additionally, a new type of contiguity matrix is constructed ...
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Defence & Peace Economics
21 (2010), 2, S. 149-164
| Olaf J. de Groot
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Set-point theory is the main research paradigm in the field of subjective well-being (SWB). It has been extended and refined for 30 years to take in new results. The central plank of the theory is that adult set-points do not change, except temporarily in the face of major life events. There was always some "discordant data", including evidence that some events are so tragic (e.g. the death of one's ...
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Social Indicators Research
97 (2010), 1, S. 7-21
| Bruce Headey
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Severance pay is a vital part of employment protection legislation (EPL). We investigate the incidence and level of severance pay for dismissed employees. Our theoretical model predicts that not only the law and its interpretation by labour courts but also the costs of a suit have an impact. Using West German panel data for 1991-2006, we find that theemployees' costs resulting from a suit and the legal ...
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International Review of Law and Economics
30 (2010), 1, S. 71-85
| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
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We investigate the impact of debt on a panel of U.S. manufacturing firms' capital investment behavior as the underlying firm-specific and market-level uncertainty changes. Our estimates show that the influence of leverage on capital investment may be stimulating or mitigating depending on the effects of uncertainty.
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Economics Letters
106 (2010), 1, S. 25-27
| Christopher F. Baum, Mustafa Caglayan, Oleksandr Talavera
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Euro area monetary growth has exceeded its target since 2001. Likewise, recent empirical studies did not find evidence in favour of a stable long-run money demand function. In contrast to the bulk of the literature, we are able to identify a stable long-run money demand relationship. This result is obtained when the analysis is done without the short run homogeneity restriction between money and prices. ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
29 (2010), 1, S. 111-122
| Christian Dreger, Jürgen Wolters