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Researchers in the US have consistently reported substantial—not just statistically significant—links between religious belief and practice, and improved health and longevity. In this paper we report evidence for Germany, using data from the long-running, nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1984). The SOEP dataset includes multiple measures of health, plus many ‘controls’ which ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
119 (2014), 3, 1335-1361
| Bruce Headey, Gerhard Hoehne, Gert G. Wagner
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This is the first of what, it is hoped, will become an annual series of Wave Reports on the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey Study (SOEP). SOEP has now been running for a quarter of century (1984-2008). Twenty-five waves of data have been collected. So some respondents, about 2,500 middle aged and older people, have kindly agreed to be interviewed twenty-five times. The central theme of SOEP is ‘subjective ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2008,
| Bruce Headey, Elke Holst
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Frankfurt/M. - Mannheim:
1988,
(Sfb 3-Arbeitspapier Nr. 260)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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In:
Bruce Bradbury ,
Contemporary Issues in Income Distribution Research. SPRC Reports and Proceedings No. 115
Melbourne: University of New South Wales
133-176
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1995,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 126)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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In:
Australian Social Monitor
2 (1999), 2, 37-41
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause
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Social scientists and media commentators have expressed concern that Western countries are becoming two-thirds societies in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This paper, based on economic panel data, tests the two-thirds society hypothesis in the case of (West) Germany 1984-89. The main finding is that poverty (defined as receiving ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1991,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 38)
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich
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In:
Proceedings of the 1993 International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
63 (1994), 1/2, 42-47
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich
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Social scientists and media commentators have expressed concern that Western countries are becoming “two-thirds societies” in which two-thirds enjoy the benefits of affluence, while one-third are locked into poverty or near-poverty. This paper, based on economic panel data, tests the two-thirds society hypothesis in the case of (West) Germany 1984–89. The main finding is that poverty (defined as receiving ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
31 (1994), 1, 1-25
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich
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In:
British Journal of Sociology
46 (1995), 2, 225-243
| Bruce Headey, Peter Krause, Roland Habich