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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed in the period 1992-2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken inKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and of all academic papers published using these datasets. We argue that Central Asia is a fascinating region ...
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Journal of Comparative Economics
42 (2014), 3, S. 819-835
| Tilman Brück, Damir Esenaliev, Antje Kröger, Alma Kudebayeva, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
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SOEPpapers 468 / 2012
This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that the time trend in average happiness is flat during episodes of long-run income growth. This mean-preserving ...
2012| Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Flèche, Claudia Senik
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SOEPpapers 385 / 2011
In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them. In this paper we examine the impact of capabilities alongside choices on subjective and objective well-being. ...
2011| Ruud Muffels, Bruce Headey
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SOEPpapers 382 / 2011
The distribution of personal income in a society depends strongly on the within-household distribution of income. Nevertheless, little is known about this phenomenon. I analyze the sharing of income among household partners from a welfare economic perspective. Measures of financial satisfaction for both household partners are used to gain information about the within-household distribution of income-induced ...
2011| Susanne Elsas
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SOEPpapers 399 / 2011
Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1984-2009, we follow persons from their working life into their retirement years and find that, on average, employed people maintain their life satisfaction upon retirement, while long-term unemployed people report a substantial increase in their life satisfaction when they retire. These results are robust to controlling for changes in other life ...
2011| Clemens Hetschko, Andreas Knabe, Ronnie Schöb
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SOEPpapers 351 / 2011
Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective perceptions. To explore the additional information of these indicators, we analyze data on the macro level from the ...
2011| Sonja C. Kassenböhmer, Christoph M. Schmidt
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SOEPpapers 349 / 2010
We use life satisfaction and Body Mass Index (BMI) information from three waves of the SOEP to test for social interactions in BMI between spouses. Social interactions require that the cross-partial effect of partner's weight and own weight in the utility function be positive. Using life satisfaction as a utility proxy, semi-parametric regressions show that the correlation between satisfaction and ...
2010| Andrew E. Clark, Fabrice Etilé
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on permanent earnings in Germany than in Denmark, and a comparable influence is found in USA. This holds true for both ...
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Journal of Population Economics
27 (2014), 1, S. 69-89
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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SOEPpapers 599 / 2013
We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well·being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantlyincreased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase·out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition to ...
2013| Jan Goebel, Christian Krekel, Tim Tiefenbach, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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SOEPpapers 549 / 2013
Subjective well-being (SWB) is generally argued to rise with relative income. However, direct evidence is scarce on whether and how intensively individuals undertake income comparisons, to whom they relate, and what they perceive their relative income to be. In this paper, novel data with direct information on income comparison intensity and perceived relative income with respect to predetermined reference ...
2013| Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg