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The central limit theorem says that, provided an estimator fulfills certain weak conditions, then, for reasonable sample sizes, the sampling distribution of the estimator converges to normality. We propose a procedure to find out what a “reasonably large sample size” is. The procedure is based on the properties of Gini’s mean difference decomposition. We show the results of implementations of the procedure ...
In:
Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
46 (2017), 9, 7074-7087
| Carsten Schröder, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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Well-being (life satisfaction or happiness) is a latent variable that is impossible to observe directly. Moreover, it does not have a unit of measurement. Hence, survey questionnaires usually ask people to rate their well-being in different domains. The common practice of comparing well-being by means of averages or linear regressions ignores the fact that well-being is an ordinal variable. Since data ...
In:
European Economic Review
92 (2017), February 2017, 337-358
| Carsten Schröder, Shlomo Yitzhaki
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This study uses hybrid effects regressions with the German Socio-Economic Panel to compare differences in happiness between Germans during times of high and low income inequality. It shows that Germans interviewed during times of persistently low inequality were no more satisfied with their lives than Germans during times of persistently high inequality. However, the article also uses within effects ...
In:
European Sociological Review
32 (2016), 2, 307-320
| Martin Schröder
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In this article we investigate whether early retirement patterns vary between countries with distinct early retirement systems. By choosing countries that differ not only with respect to the coverage and generosity of publicly provided pensions but also with respect to the extent to which the state interferes in the non-public pillars of pension provision, we analyse to what extent such issues have ...
In:
European Sociological Review
24 (2008), 3, 315-329
| Trudie Schils
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Colchester, UK:
Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), University of Essex,
2003,
(EPAG Working Paper 44)
| Trudie Schils, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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I define wellbeing as preference realization. Wellbeing can be measured with affective (the amount of pleasant versus unpleasant experiences) and cognitive (satisfaction with life in general and life domains) measures. Since its inception 25 years ago, the SOEP has included cognitive measures of wellbeing. In 2007, the SOEP included four items (happy, sad, angry, afraid) as an affective measure of ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch - SOEP after 25 Years. Proceedings of the 8th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
129 (2009), 2, 241-249
| Ulrich Schimmack
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This study uses longitudinal panel data and short-term retest data from the same respondents in the German Socio-economic Panel to estimate the contribution of state and trait variance to the reliable variance in judgments of life satisfaction and domain satisfaction. The key finding is that state and trait variance contribute approximately equally to the reliable variance in well being measures. Most ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
95 (2010), 1, 19-31
| Ulrich Schimmack, Peter Krause, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 7th International Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2006), ed. by Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Grabka, Markus M. and Kroh, Martin)
127 (2007), 1, 105-111
| Ulrich Schimmack, Richard E. Lucas
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This article uses dyadic latent panel analysis (DLPA) to examine environmental influences on well-being. DLPA requires longitudinal dyadic data. It decomposes the observed variance of both members of a dyad into a trait, state, and an error component. Furthermore, state variance is decomposed into initial and new state variance. Total observed similarity between members of a dyad is decomposed into ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
98 (2010), 1, 1-21
| Ulrich Schimmack, Richard E. Lucas
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In:
Social Indicators Research
89 (2008), 1, 41-60
| Ulrich Schimmack, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner