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  • SOEPpapers 516 / 2012

    The Course of Subjective Sleep Quality in Middle and Old Adulthood and Its Relation to Physical Health

    Objective: Older adults more often complain about sleep disturbances compared to younger adults. However, it is not clear whether there is still a decline of sleep qualityafter age 60 and whether changes in sleep quality in old age are mere reflections of impaired physical health or whether they represent a normative age dependent development. Method: Subjective sleep quality and perceived physical ...

    2012| Sakari Lemola, David Richter
  • SOEPpapers 507 / 2012

    A New Approach for Assessing Sleep Duration and Postures from Ambulatory Accelerometry

    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 ...

    2012| Cornelia Wrzus, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Timo von Oertzen, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
  • SOEPpapers 501 / 2012

    Rethinking the Relative Income Hypothesis

    Income comparisons have been found to be important for individual health. However, the literature has so far looked solely at upward comparisons, disregarding the effects of comparisons with worse-off individuals. In this paper, I use a broad definition of relative income to test simultaneously for the effect of "upward" and "downward" income comparisons on health. Relative deprivation and relative ...

    2012| Cristina Blanco-Perez
  • SOEPpapers 502 / 2012

    Forecasting Life Satisfaction across Adulthood: Benefits of Seeing a Dark Future?

    Anticipating one's future self is a unique human capacity that contributes importantly to adaptation and health throughoutadulthood and old age. Using the adult lifespan sample of the national German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP; N > 10,000, age range 18-96 years), we investigated age-differential stability, correlates, and outcomes of accuracy in anticipation of future life satisfaction across six subsequent ...

    2012| Frieder R. Lang, David Weiss, Denis Gerstorf, Gert G. Wagner
  • SOEPpapers 491 / 2012

    Unemployment and Smoking: Causation, Selection, or Common Cause? Evidence from Longitudinal Data

    Background: This study investigates possible mechanisms that can explain the association between unemployment and smoking, that is a) unemployment increases smoking probability (causation), b) smoking increases the probability to become unemployed (selection), and c) differences in both smoking and unemployment probabilities trace back to differences in socio-economic position (common cause). Methods: ...

    2012| Reinhard Schunck, Benedikt G. Rogge
  • SOEPpapers 470 / 2012

    Trade Union Membership and Sickness Absence: Evidence from a Sick Pay Reform

    In 1996, statutory sick pay was reduced for private sector workers in Germany. Using the empirical observation that trade union members are dismissed less often than non-members, we construct a model to predict how absence behaviour will respond to the sick pay reform. We show that union members may have stronger incentives to be absent and to react to the cut in sick pay. In the empirical investigation, ...

    2012| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
  • Diskussionspapiere 1226 / 2012

    Health Care Expenditures and Longevity: Is There a Eubie Blake Effect?

    It is still an open question whether increasing life expectancy as such is causing higher health care expenditures (HCE) in a population. According to the "red herring" hypothesis, the positive correlation between age and HCE is exclusively due to the fact that mortality rises with age and a large share of HCE is caused by proximity to death. As a consequence, rising longevity - through falling mortality ...

    2012| Friedrich Breyer, Normann Lorenz, Thomas Niebel
  • SOEPpapers 488 / 2012

    The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

    Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on ...

    2012| Jan Marcus
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    A New Approach for Assessing Sleep Duration and Postures from Ambulatory Accelerometry

    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 ...

    In: PloS one 7 (2012), 10, 9 S. | Cornelia Wrzus, Andreas M. Brandmaier, Timo von Oertzen, Viktor Müller, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
  • Diskussionspapiere 1244 / 2012

    Noise Expectation and House Prices

    In this paper, we examine the effects of an airport expansion on the prices of houses and flats located under the planned flight corridors. We focus on the role of expectations about the exposure to noise and find that proximity to the planned corridors significantly reduces real estate prices in the affected areas, by around 41% to 60%, depending on the sample. Hereby, the various plans of expanding ...

    2012| Andreas Mense, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
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