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Life satisfaction is often assessed using single-item measures. However, estimating the reliability of these measures can be difficult because internal consistency coefficients cannot be calculated. Existing approaches use longitudinal data to isolate occasion-specific variance from variance that is either completely stable or variance that changes systematically over time. In these approaches, reliable ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
105 (2012), 3, 323-331
| Richard E. Lucas, M. Brent Donnellan
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In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
15 (2020), 4, 1135-1149
| Kai Ludwigs, Richard Lucas, Ruut Veenhoven, David Richter, Lidia Arends
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I use the life satisfaction approach to value air quality, combining individual-level panel and highresolution SO2 data. To avoid simultaneity problems, I construct a novel instrument exploiting the natural experiment created by the mandated scrubber installation at power plants, with wind directions dividing counties into treatment and control groups. I find a negative effect of pollution on well-being ...
In:
Economic Journal
119 (2009), 536, 482-515
| Simon Luechinger
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The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job satisfaction and job mobility. We find that overeducation and overskilling are distinct phenomena with different ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2010,
(IZA DP No. 5083)
| Kostas Mavromaras, Seamus McGuinness, Nigel O'Leary, Peter Sloane, Zhang Wei
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Berlin:
Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung,
2001,
(Research Report 1998-2000)
| Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung
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In:
Journal of Population Economics
13 (2000), 2, 241-261
| Jochen Mayer, Regina T. Riphahn
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In:
John Bynner ,
The Use of Longitudinal Cohort Studies in the Policy Process. An Anglo-German perspective
London: Anglo-German Foundation
| Karl Ulrich Mayer
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Life courses are studied in sociology and neighboring fields as developmental processes, as culturally and normatively constructed life stages and age roles, as biographical meanings, as aging processes, as outcomes of institutional regulation and policies, as demographic accounts, or as mere empirical connectivity across the life course. This review has two aims. One is to report on trends in life ...
In:
Annual Review of Sociology
35 (2009), 413-433
| Karl Ulrich Mayer
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Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a 2008 module of the German-Socio Economic Panel Study we ask subjects to report (a) how their income compares ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 214)
| Guy Mayraz, Gert G. Wagner, Jürgen Schupp
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We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education to data for the USA, the UK and Germany. We find that in residual wage variation, uncertainty by far dominates unobserved heterogeneity. The relation between uncertainty and level of education is not monotonic and differs among countries.
In:
Labour Economics
24 (2013), October 2013, 323-338
| Jacopo Mazza, Hans van Ophem, Joop Hartog