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The Importance of Wealth for Subjective Well-Being

It is widely assumed that since income is usually found to account for a relatively small proportion of the variance across individuals in self-reported well-being, money does not matter for personal happiness. This hypothesis is reexamined in this paper by including measures of household wealth alongside the more usual household income measure in regression equations of life satisfaction. Using data ...

Happiness and Longevity: Unhappy People Die Young, Otherwise Happiness Probably Makes No Difference

Based on analysis of long-running panel surveys in Germany and Australia, we offer a revised assessment of the relationship between subjective well-being (happiness, life satisfaction) and longevity. Most previous research has reported a linear positive relationship; the happier people are, the longer they live (Diener and Chan in Appl Psychol Health Well-Being 3:1–43, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1758-0854.2010.01045.x). ...

A Metadata-Driven Approach to Panel Data Management and its Application in DDI on Rails

This dissertation designs a metadata-driven infrastructure for panel data that aims to increase both the quality and the usability of the resulting research data. Data quality determines whether the data appropriately represent a particular aspect of our reality. Usability originates notably from a conceivable documentation, accessibility of the data, and interoperability with tools and other data ...

Integrating Personality Psychology into Economics

This paper reviews the problems and potential benefits of integrating personality psychology into economics. Economists have much to learn from and contribute to personality psychology.

Hard Evidence on Soft Skills

This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of “cognitive ability” like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life. Achievement tests miss, or perhaps more accurately, do not adequately capture, soft skills – personality traits, goals, motivations, ...

Efficiency and distribution effects of a revenue-neutral income tax reform

Are economic conditions related to nonnormative life satisfaction development? Evaluating the relative impact of economic conditions, personality, and subjective health

This study examined the relative contribution of psychological and socioeconomic resources to explaining qualitative individual differences in life satisfaction development. We used growth mixture modeling and a cohort-sequential design to investigate life satisfaction development from age 25 to 65, in a nationally representative panel (the SOEP). Eighty-three percent of the participants experienced ...

Perceived control in low-control circumstances: Control beliefs predict a greater decrease in life satisfaction following job loss

Whereas perceived control is generally conducive to effective self-regulation and well-being, it may predict more negative reactions to life events that are associated with a disconfirmation of control. Using data from a nationally representative panel study (the GSOEP) we tested whether perceived control is associated with more negative reactions to job loss (i.e., a partially uncontrollable negative ...

The First Six Waves of SOEP - The Panel Project in the Years 1983 to 1989

The Employment of Mothers – Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences in the developments for high and low skilled females. We find substantial differences in the employment behavior ...