Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a national sample spanning the adult lifespan, age differences in anger and sadness were explored. The cross-sectional and longitudinal findings consistently suggest that the frequency of anger increases during young adulthood, but then shows a steady decrease until old age. By contrast, the frequency of sadness remains stable over most of adulthood ...
Evidence of assortative mating according to personality was reported in a previous SOEP-based study (Rammstedt & Schupp, 2008). Based on population representative data of almost 7,000 couples, high levels of congruence between spouses were found, which increased with marriage duration. Almost 5,000 of these couples were tracked over a five-year period with personality assessed at the beginning and ...
Classic economic theory predicts that markets will clear, leaving little or no gains from trade left on the table. Laboratory experiments have largely confirmed this, though the results of recent field experiments have been mixed, with some artefactual markets in developing countries performing relatively inefficiently. I create a realistic multi-round trading market in Uganda with market-experienced ...
On August 30, 2013, four SOEP respondents attended a summer celebration hosted by German Federal President Joachim Gauck in honor of volunteer and community service work.Additional information
The GC offers a workshop on writing good texts for academic journals. It is designed for researchers who would like to improve their English academic writing skills.Guided by our lecturer, Ellen Klein, we will discuss the writing process itself and look at the key elements of academic writing. Topics will include preparing and structuring a research paper; writing abstracts; language and...
The GC offers a workshop on writing good texts for academic journals. It is designed for researchers who would like to improve their English academic writing skills. Guided by our lecturer, Ellen Klein, we will discuss the writing process itself and look at the key elements of academic writing. Topics will include preparing and structuring a research paper; writing abstracts; language and...
Using a sample of Europeans aged 50+ from twelve countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) we analyse the role of poor material conditions as a determinant of changes in health over a four-year period. We find that poverty defined with respect to relative incomes has no effect on changes in health. However, broader measures of poor material conditions such as subjective ...
