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In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...
In:
Quality & Quantity
54 (2020), February 2020, 3-25
| Jule Adriaans, Peter Valet, Stefan Liebig
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We here explore the link between individual concerns about crime and the distribution of income in Germany. We make use of 1995-2017 microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to show that both individual polarization and relative deprivation have statistically-significant effects on reported concerns about crime, while relative satisfaction plays no role. At the aggregate level, the main ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2020,
(SOEPpapers 1071)
| Michelle Acampora, Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus M. Grabka
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We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees and female irregular migrants are ...
In:
Journal of Development Economics
152 (2021), (September 2021), 102681
| Cevat Giray Aksoy, Panu Poutvaara
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This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its extensive and intensive margin: When the extensive margin dominates, people (wrongly) believe they are healthy ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
76 (2021), 102425
| Patrick Arni, Davide Dragone, Lorenz Goette, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Parents’ smoking is harmful to infants’ health. While it is well established that the fraction of mothers smoking during pregnancy is non-negligible, it is an open question of how many parents actually quit smoking to account for the adverse health effects accruing to their offspring. It is also unknown for how long smoking is reduced after first childbirth. This paper investigates these questions ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
38 (2020), August 2020, 100874
| Katja Görlitz, Marcus Tamm
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Unhealthy behavior can be extremely costly from a micro- and macroeconomic perspective and exploring the determinants of such behavior is highly important from an economist’s point of view. We examine whether locus of control (LOC) can explain alcohol consumption as an important domain of health behavior. LOC measures how much an individual believes in the causal relationship between her own actions ...
In:
Empirical Economics
63 (2022), 5, 2785-2815
| Marco Caliendo, Juliane Hennecke
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There has been explosive growth in the analysis of subjective well-being in Economics over the past 40 years. This article reviews some of this growth, and suggests a number of domains in which future research may proceed.
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
64 (2018), 2, 245-269
| Andrew E. Clark
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This paper investigates the effects of comparison pay on job and life satisfaction with longitudinal survey data from Germany. I use linear fixed effects models to account for unobserved heterogeneity and define the reference groups as individuals within the same occupation and industry. Men and women are expected to behave differently to comparison pay and are therefore investigated separately. Additionally, ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
20 (2019), 1, 67-80
| Matthias Collischon
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In this article we compare solo self-employment in Germany and the Netherlands. We identify parallels and differences in the structure of solo self-employment and examine to what extent self-employment is related to a precarious situation in terms of earnings and social security. The results show that solo self-employed workers are relatively vulnerable in terms of income and disability insurance in ...
In:
Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
27 (2019), 2, 177-197
| Wieteke Conen, Karin Schulze Buschoff
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We examine the complex relationship between money and happiness. We find that both permanent income and wealth are better predictors of life satisfaction than current income and wealth. They matter not only in absolute terms but also in comparative terms. However, their relative impacts differ. The first exerts a comparison effect—the higher the permanent income of the reference group, the lower life ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
148 (2020), 1, 47-66
| Conchita D'Ambrosio, Markus Jäntti, Anthony Lepinteur