Health is an important non-monetary outcome of education surveyed by the National Education Panel Study (NEPS). In addition to its effects in adulthood (see Lettau et al., 2020), the interplay between education and health also plays a role for children and adolescents. For this reason, the NEPS provides longitudinal data on various aspects of health, education, relevant control variables, and mechanisms ...
This paper investigates the link between non-standard employment (NSE) and the risk of partnership dissolution, applying event history analysis to data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey for the period 2001–2016. It moves beyond previous studies by (a) considering a broader range of employment types, including fixed-term ...
A clean environment is a public good, with the benefits shared by all. While most individuals can agree on the need to implement green policies, we argue that the cost-benefit calculation is quite different depending on where one lives. Those individuals living in places where green infrastructure is infeasible, such as cities, can advocate for green technologies knowing that the chance of having to ...
Most research examining individuals who follow different diets has combined vegetarians and vegans into a single group. To investigate whether this consolidation is justified, we analyzed possible differences between vegetarians and vegans for the Big Five personality traits in two studies. In our pre-study, we used data from a German convenience sample of 400 vegetarians and 749 vegans and found that ...
Etwa jeder zweite Bundesbürger zählte im Jahr 2018 zur Einkommensmittelschicht im engeren Sinn (i.e.S.). Seit über einer Dekade hat sich dieser Anteil nur unmerklich verändert. Gestiegen sind jedoch die Schwellenwerte, ab denen man zur Einkommensmitte gehört – ein Ausdruck gestiegenen Wohlstands. Während im Jahr 2018 ein Singlehaushalt mit einem monatlichen Nettoeinkommen ab 1.620 Euro zur Mitte i.e.S. ...
In dieser Kurzanalyse wurde anhand der IAB-SOEP-BAMF-Befragung von Geflüchteten untersucht, wie sich die Deutschkenntnisse, die Sorgen und die allgemeine Lebenszufriedenheit von 2016 bis 2020 entwickelt haben. Hierbei wurden Veränderungen von 2019 auf 2020, also während des ersten Jahres der Covid-19-Pandemie, besonders berücksichtigt. Prinzipiell nahmen die Deutschkenntnisse bei Geflüchteten von Jahr ...
Thriving middle classes are the backbone of democratic societies and strong economies, but in many countries, they face mounting pressure as their economic strength is eroding relative to higher-income households. Real wages and incomes for most middle-class households have grown only very slowly, and rising expenditures have been putting further pressure on living standards. Meanwhile, globalisation, ...
There is a vast literature on the determinants of subjective wellbeing. Yet, standard regression models explain little variation in wellbeing. We here use data from Germany, the UK, and the US to assess the potential of Machine Learning (ML) to help us better understand wellbeing. Compared to traditional models, ML approaches provide moderate improvements in predictive performance. Drastically expanding ...