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Measuring multidimensional inequality by means of a univariate index requires weighting the dimensions of inequality. This paper explores the normative and empirical problems involved in measuring inequality by estimating hedonic weights on the basis of German microdata. In contrast to previous works, the perception of inequality, derived from subjective social status, has been used to estimate a weighting ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
146 (2019), 3, 511-531
| Philipp Poppitz
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In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...
Amsterdam:
Tinbergen Institute,
2024,
(Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper TI 2024-075/III)
| Bernard M.S. van Praag, Peter J. Hop, William H. Greene
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We revisit the Easterlin paradox about the flatness of the happiness trend over the long run, in spite of sustained economic development. With a bounded scale that explicitly refers to “the best possible life for you” and “the worst possible life for you”, is it even possible to observe a rising trend in self-declared life satisfaction? We consider the possibility of rescaling, i.e. that the interpretation ...
Paris School of Economics,
2024,
(Working Paper No. 2024-61)
| Alberto Prati, Claudia Senik
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Measures of private wealth often refer to households or tax-units, but how does household wealth relate to individual welfare? Analogous to household economies of scale for consumption, this paper offers a methodology and empirical results to account for household wealth scale effects. These scale effects vary depending on the purpose of savings: funding consumption versus holding wealth for motives ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
71 (2025), 1, e70002
| Severin Rapp
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A majority of German households are occupied by renters. There are indications of growing inequality through disproportional income increases among high-income households and disproportional rent increases among low-income households. On the basis of the German Socio-Economic Panel, the author examines rent-income ratios (RIRs) and differentiates between migrants and natives. How did RIRs develop between ...
In:
Socius
10 (2024), 23780231241298806
| Nils Witte
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People have a need to form and maintain fulfilling social contact, yet they differ with respect to with whom they satisfy the need and how quickly this need is deprived or overly satiated. These social dynamics across relationships and across time are theoretically delineated in the current article. Furthermore, we developed a questionnaire to measure individual differences in three aspects of such ...
In:
Current Psychology
43 (2024), 24, 20899-20919
| Cornelia Wrzus, Yannick Roos, Michael D. Krämer, David Richter
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What are the defining features of lay people’s semantic representation of risk? We contribute to mapping the semantics of risk based on word associations to provide insight into both universal and individual differences in the representation of risk. Specifically, we introduce a mini-snowball word association paradigm and use the tools of network and sentiment analysis to characterize the semantics ...
In:
Science Advances
8 (2022), 27, eabm1883
| Dirk U. Wulff, Rui Mata
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This study investigates the lead effects of future plant closures for prospective displaced workers’ subjective and objective outcomes. We analyze the effects on their forward-looking subjective outcomes (job insecurity, probabilistic expectations of job loss and of job search), a current subjective outcome (job satisfaction), and current objective outcomes (weekly hours of work, earnings). We estimate ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
188 (2021), 489-505
| Christoph Wunder, Tugba Zeydanli
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The existing literature consistently finds that emotional experiences and cortisol secretion are linked at the within-person level. Further, relationship partners tend to covary in emotional experience, and in cortisol secretion. However, we are only beginning to understand whether and how an individuals’ emotions are linked to their relationship partners’ cortisol secretion. In this project, we harmonized ...
In:
Psychoneuroendocrinology
167 (2024), 107118
| Tomiko Yoneda, Theresa Pauly, Nilam Ram, Karolina Kolodziejczak-Krupp, Maureen C. Ashe, Kenneth Madden, Johanna Drewelies, Denis Gerstorf, Christiane A. Hoppmann
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The study LGBielefeld 2021 was the second cross-sectional survey in the LGBielefeld series and aimed to gain insights into the living conditions and day-to-day experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, and inter* people in Germany. The study collected data from 7,332 people aged 18 years and older across Germany who self-identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, or inter*(LGBTQI*) ...
Bielefeld:
Bielefeld Univerity,
2023,
| Zaza Zindel, Simon Kühne, Lisa de Vries, Martin Kroh, David Kasprowski, Mirjam Fischer, David Richter