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A large literature in behavioral and social sciences has found that human wellbeing follows a U-shape over age. Some theories have assumed that the U-shape is caused by unmet expectations that are felt painfully in midlife but beneficially abandoned and experienced with less regret during old age. In a unique panel of 132,609 life satisfaction expectations matched to subsequent realizations, I find ...
In:
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
122 (2016), February 2016, 75-87
| Hannes Schwandt
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Walferdange (Luxemburg):
CEPS/INSTEAD,
1995,
(PACO Document No. 10)
| Charanjit Singh
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We examined the association between religious involvement and life satisfaction using data drawn from the 2003, 2007, and 2011 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our study provides evidence of an association between attendance at religious services and life satisfaction for respondents residing in West Germany. While social networks partially mediate this relationship for West Germany, there ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
123 (2015), 3, 837-855
| Elisabeth Sinnewe, Michael A. Kortt, Brian Dollery
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Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2007,
(SOEPpapers 59)
| Mathias Sinning
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This paper analyzes the home-ownership gap between native and immigrant households in Germany, paying particular attention to the assimilation process of immigrant households.A double cohort approach is applied to investigate the effect of the duration of residence in Germany on the homeownership probability of immigrant households.Moreover, focusing on homeowners, differences in the housing quality ...
In:
Urban Studies
47 (2010), 2, 387-409
| Mathias Sinning
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This paper investigates the determinants of migrants’ financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers. The findings reveal that return intentions positively affect financial transfers of immigrants to their home country. Moreover, while the effect of the household ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
9 (2011), 1, 45-67
| Mathias Sinning
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In:
Ulrich Rendtel, Manfred Ehling, et al. ,
Harmonisation of Panel Surveys and Data Quality (Chintex)
Wiesbaden: Statistisches Bundesamt
210-219
| Johanna Sisto, Ulrich Rendtel
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2008,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper No. 478)
| Christine Skinner, Jonathan Bradshaw, Jacqueline Davidson
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The objective of this paper is to quantify selection effects related to blood donation behavior and their impact on donors’ perceived health status. We rely on data from the 2009 and 2010 survey waves of the German socio-economic panel (N = 12,000), including information on health-related, demographic and psychographic factors as well as monetary donation behavior and volunteer work. We propose a propensity ...
In:
European Journal of Health Economics
16 (2015), 7, 733-745
| Edlira Shehu, Annette Hofmann, Michel Clement, Ann-Christin Langmaack
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Understanding donor profiles is crucial for donor relationship management. Whereas previous research has focused on profiling blood, money, or time donor segments separately, we define seven donor profiles based on their former donation behavior for blood, money, and time donation and compare them to non-donors. Relying on representative data from the German Socio Economic Panel, we use an extensive ...
In:
Nonprofit Management & Leadership
25 (2015), 3, 269-295
| Edlira Shehu, Ann-Christin Langmaack, Elena Felchle, Michel Clement