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The spread of high-speed (broadband) Internet epitomizes the digital revolution. Using German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband influences fertility choices in a low-fertility setting well known for the difficulty in combining work and family life. We exploit a strategy devised by Falck and colleagues to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find ...
In:
Population Studies
73 (2019), 3, 297-316
| Francesco C. Billari, Osea Giuntella, Luca Stella
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Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By distinguishing different types of self-employment, this paper sheds light onto why some self-employeds even report lower life satisfaction, focussing specifically on poor ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2017,
(SOEPpapers 947)
| Martin Binder
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Do perceptions about the state of the environment impact on individuals' well-being and do they lead to environmental activism? While the impact of objective features of the environment (e.g., pollution, parks) is well-researched, the present paper fills a research gap by analyzing how concerns about the environment impact on subjective well-being. Based on German panel data (SOEP) for the years ...
In:
Ecological Economics
124 (2016), April 2016, 1-16
| Martin Binder, Ann-Kathrin Blankenberg
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It is well-known in the literature that self-employment positively influences job satisfaction, but the effects on other life domains and overall life satisfaction are much less clear. Our study analyzes the welfare effects of self-employment apart from its monetary aspects, and focuses on the overall life satisfaction as well as different domain satisfactions of self-employed individuals in our German ...
In:
Journal of Happiness Studies
17 (2016), 4, 1409-1433
| Martin Binder, Alex Coad
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We use panel vector autoregressions to analyze the underlying structure of changes in subjective well-being and its coevolution with changes in income, health, worries, marital status and employment status for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data set. We find that positive changes in the named life domains are followed by decreases in subjective well-being (except for health, which is followed ...
In:
Metroeconomica
64 (2013), 2, 361-400
| Martin Binder, Felix Ward
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Freiburg im Breisgau:
Institut für allgemeine Wirtschaftsforschung,
2007,
(Discussion Paper Nr. 01/07)
| Nicole Binder
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In:
Ulrich Rendtel, Gert G. Wagner ,
Lebenslagen im Wandel - Zur Einkommensdynamik in Deutschland seit 1984
Frankfurt/M. - New York: Campus
409-436
| Edward J. Bird
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In:
| Edward J. Bird
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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, 53-59
| Edward J. Bird
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In:
Review of Income and Wealth
41 (1995), 4, 405-426
| Edward J. Bird