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Household (M1-M2) 2018 - field version (en)

Individual and Biography (M1-M2) 2018 - field version (en)

Individual (M1-M2) 2018 - field version (en)

Household (PAPI) 2018 - field version (en)

Individual (PAPI) 2018 - field version (en)

Household (P) 2019 - field version (en)

Household (Q) 2019 - field version (en)

My Wealth, (Y)Our Life Satisfaction? Sole and Joint Wealth Ownership and Life Satisfaction in Marriage

This study examines the money-subjective well-being nexus by studying the link between changes in jointly and solely (i.e. respondents’ own and their partner’s own) held gross wealth and changes in married individuals’ subjective well-being. Joint assets reflect norms of sharing responsibilities and resources. Solely held assets, in contrast, offer individual economic independence. Using wealth data ...

The transition into motherhood from a life-course perspective: A comparison across first-generation immigrants in Germany

Previous research has examined when and why immigrant women living in Germany become mothers, provided they came from former guest-worker countries. However, less is known about the fertility behavior of other groups of international immigrants in Germany. This study investigates the transition to motherhood across first-generation immigrant women from three different regions of origin who were childless ...

Navigating the well-being effects of monetary policy: Evidence from the European Central Bank

This paper assesses whether monetary policy announcements have an impact on households’ (subjective) well-being by analysing life satisfaction on the days before and after monetary surprises in Germany. To do so, we use individual-level information on life satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and identify the day on which each answer is submitted to the survey. We also exploit ...