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SOEPpapers 857 / 2016
In general, poverty measures are estimated by applying income information. However, only using income data for calculating relative poverty might lead to an incomplete view. For example, a household can be under a poverty threshold even if a household member owns real estate or equity. In this thesis, at risk of income poverty in Germany is estimated. In order to get a more complete picture of at risk ...
2016| Theresa Köhler
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DIW Discussion Papers 1599 / 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the effects are gone within a year. These conclusions ...
2016| Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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SOEPpapers 858 / 2016
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the effects are gone within a year. These conclusions ...
2016| Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
We investigate the role of labor market status for day-by-day experienced well-being for employed and unemployed workers. The German representative SOEP-IS dataset (waves 2012-2015) allows us to assess individual time use and accompanying experienced well-being. Using information from the integrated day reconstruction method (DRM) module, our analysis overcome shortcomings of previous studies that...
03.08.2016| Maria Metzing
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Externe Working Papers
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge"
that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo
and Drazen are right when they note that ...
Berlin:
RatSWD,
2016,
5 S.
(RatSWD Working Paper Series ; 256)
| Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner
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Externe Working Papers
In the New England Journal of Medicine, Longo and Drazen critically assessed the concept of data sharing. Their main concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for their own original research questions. The authors referred to this class of researcher as "research parasites". Longo and Drazen are right when they note that scientific ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2016,
6 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9895)
| Benedikt Fecher, Gert G. Wagner
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Externe Working Papers
We live in a time of increasing publication rates and specialization of scientific disciplines. More and more, the research community is facing the challenge of assuring the quality of research and maintaining trust in the scientific enterprise. Replication studies are necessary to detect erroneous research. Thus, the replicability of research is considered a hallmark of good scientific practice and ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2016,
25 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9896)
| Benedikt Fecher, Mathis Fräßdorf, Gert G. Wagner
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Externe Working Papers
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation. Sibling correlations in non-cognitive ...
Bonn:
IZA,
2016,
39 S.
(Discussion Paper Series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 9918)
| Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Externe Working Papers
Private wealth is a crucial factor for the economic well‐being of households. Key determinants of private wealth include intergenerational wealth transfers (gifts and inheritances), which are gaining importance since 1990, as research suggests. We conduct a detailed investigation of the distribution of wealth transfers in eight Euro‐area countries. First, we investigate the patterns of prevalence and ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2016,
40 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2016,1)
| Anita Tiefensee, Christian Westermeier
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DIW Roundup 100 / 2016
It is heavily discussed whether trade liberalization is good or bad for the poor in a given (developing) country. The answer depends on a wide variety of factors, such as the type of trade barrier removed, the economic and institutional environment in the country, and the characteristics of the poor in that country (Winters 2002; Winters et al. 2004). In addition, the results can also be driven by ...
2016| Isabel Teichmann