How do courts award noneconomic damages? Does it matter if the state is the defendant? This article addresses these questions in the context of medical malpractice appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court. Moreover, this study provides the first empirical analysis of the quantification of noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases in administrative courts, where the state is the defendant, and in ...
In light of the recent worldwide migration of refugees, determinants of a more or less successful integration are heavily discussed, but reliable empirical investigations are scarce and have often focused on sociodemographic factors. In the present study, we explore the role of several individual characteristics for refugee adjustment in the areas of (a) institutional, (b) interpersonal and (c) intrapersonal ...
Researchers at the SOEP on the topic Subjective Well-being, Personality, and Health Subjective Well-Being Personality Pro-Social Behavior Health Mental Health Responsible: Carsten Schröder Subjective Well-Being, Personality, and Health
Researchers at the SOEP on the topic Survey Methodology and Data Science Weighting Record Linkage Data Collection as a Social Process Imputation Data Science Responsible: Jan Goebel, Sabine Zinn, Christian Hunkler Survey Methodology and Data Science
Researchers at the SOEP on Migration and Integration Migration Refugees Responsible: Sabine Zinn Migration and Integration
Social Inequalities and Distribution Subjective Well-Being, Personality and Health Migration and Integration Survey Methodology and Data Science Researchers on the SOEP team use the data to study processes of transformation and change in our society. One important area of research deals with the question of how equally or unequally societal resources such as income and wealth are distributed, and how ...
