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Personality is important for a range of life outcomes. However, despite evidence that personality changes across time, there is a concerning tendency for researchers outside of personality psychology to treat measures of personality as if they are non-changing when establishing whether personality predicts important life outcomes. This is problematic when personality changes in response to outcomes ...
In:
European Journal of Personality
31 (2017), 3, 279-290
| Christopher J. Boyce, Alex M. Wood, Liam Delaney, Eamonn Ferguson
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On average, marriage tends to lead to temporary increases in life satisfaction, which quickly return to pre-marital levels. This general pattern, however, does not consider the personality of individuals entering into marriage. We examine whether following marriage pre-marital personality predicts different changes to life satisfaction in a sample of initially single German adults (N = 2015), completing ...
In:
Personality and Individual Differences
97 (2016), July 2016, 61-66
| Christopher J. Boyce, Alex M. Wood, Eamonn Ferguson
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Loss aversion is considered a general pervasive bias occurring regardless of the context or the person making the decision. We hypothesized that conscientiousness would predict an aversion to losses in the financial domain. We index loss aversion by the relative impact of income losses and gains on life satisfaction. In a representative German sample (N = 105,558; replicated in a British sample, N ...
In:
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin
42 (2016), 4, 471-484
| Christopher J. Boyce, Alex M. Wood, Eamonn Ferguson
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Recent studies in health economics have generated two important findings: that as a measure of fatness the body mass index (BMI) is biased; and that, when it comes to analyzing wage correlates, both fat-free mass (FFM) and body fat (BF) are better suited to the task. We validate these findings for Germany using the BIAdata Base Project and the German Socio-Economic Panel. While we find no significant ...
In:
Economics & Human Biology
9 (2011), 4, 356-363
| Christiane Bozoyan, Tobias Wolbring
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This paper provides one of the first empirical applications of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) on a research question typical for the social sciences: wage discrimination. Besides a substantial interest in the weight wage penalty we ask whether DAGs help to improve the widely applied residual approach to discrimination. Using the German Socio-economic Panel (GSOEP) we find that body composition is associated ...
In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch
135 (2015), 1, 83-96
| Christiane Bozoyan, Tobias Wolbring
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The wage weight penalty is a well-established finding in the literature, but not much is known about the mechanisms that bring this phenomenon about. This article aims to provide answers to the question of why overweight and obese people earn less. Using the data of the German Socio-Economic Panel, we conduct three theory-driven litmus tests for mechanisms that explain the weight wage gap: human capital ...
In:
European Sociological Review
34 (2018), 3, 254-267
| Christiane Bozoyan, Tobias Wolbring
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This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2005 to study the earnings differential between self- and dependent employed German men. Constructing a counterfactual earnings distribution for the self-employed in dependent employment and using quantile regression decompositions we find that the earnings differential over the distribution cannot be explained by differences ...
Lüneburg:
University of Lüneburg,
2007,
(Working Paper Series in Economics No. 55)
| Nils Braakmann
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This paper considers the impact of adverse health shocks that hit an individual’s partner on subjective well-being. Using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006, I compare the losses in well-being caused by own and spousal disability using panel-regressions. I find that women and to a lesser extent men are harmed by spousal disability which is consistent with ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 194)
| Nils Braakmann
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This paper shows that differences in various non-cognitive traits, specifically the “big five”, positive and negative reciprocity, locus of control and risk aversion, contribute to gender inequalities in wages and employment. Using the 2004 and 2005 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel, evidence from regression and decomposition techniques suggests that gender differences in psychological traits ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2009,
(SOEPpapers 162)
| Nils Braakmann
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In this paper, I contrast the effects of individual and spousal disability on subjective wellbeing and labor supply using data on couples from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 1984 to 2006. I find that both men and women reduce their propensity to work when they or their partner become disabled. The effects of spousal disability are economically large. I find no evidence for hours and ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
12 (2014), 4, 717-736
| Nils Braakmann