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Cross-National Patterns in Individual and Household Employment and Work Hours by Gender and Parenthood

Work-Family Policies and the Effects of Children on Women's Employment and Earnings

Reconciliation Policies and the Effects of Motherhood on Employment, Earnings, and Poverty

Familialism and Welfare Regimes: Poverty, Employment, and Family Policies

Work Family Policies and Poverty for Partnered and Single Women in Europe and North America

Income Inequality & Redistributional Spending: An Empirical Investigation of Competing Theories

Infrastructure for large-scale survey measurement: Cooperation between academic research and private-sector agencies

Valuing the Impacts of Climate Change Using the Life Satisfaction Approach. An Application to Extreme Weather Events (master thesis)

Measuring Renewable Energy Externalities: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance. We use 324,763 observations on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994–2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind, and biomass plants in respondents’ postcode district and adjacent postcode districts. We find significant ...

Measuring impacts of extreme weather events using the life satisfaction approach

Extreme weather events cause harm among the aggrieved party that often goes beyond material damages. This paper studies the impact of extreme weather events on measures of self-reported life satisfaction. Focusing on Germany, we use representative panel data for 2000–2011 to study the effect of seven storm & hail events and five floods on subjective well-being in the affected NUTS 3 regions. Our ...