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Using data from national socio-economic panel surveys in Australia, Britain and Germany, this paper analyzes the effects of individual preferences and choices on subjective well-being (SWB). It is shown that, in all three countries, preferences and choices relating to life goals/values, partner’s personality, hours of work, social participation and healthy lifestyle have substantial and similar effects ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
112 (2013), 3, 725-748
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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There are strong two-way links between parent and child happiness (life satisfaction), even for ‘children’ who have grown up, moved to their own home and partnered themselves. German panel evidence shows that transmission of (un)happiness from parents to children is partly due to transmission of values and behaviors known to be associated with happiness (Headey, Wagner and Muffels, 2010, 2012). These ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
116 (2014), 3, 909-933
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Gert G. Wagner
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In:
Schmollers Jahrbuch (Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users, ed. by Büchel, Felix; D'Ambrosio, Conchita and Frick, Joachim R.)
125 (2005), 1, 131-144
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Mark Wooden
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In:
Social Indicators Research
87 (2008), 1, 65-82
| Bruce Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Mark Wooden
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Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey, this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life satisfaction, while those who become less religious record long term losses. This result holds net of the effects of personality traits, and also in fixed effects ...
In:
Journal of Positive Psychology
5 (2010), 1, 73 - 82
| Bruce Headey, Jürgen Schupp, Ingrid Tucci, Gert G. Wagner
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In most research on Life Satisfaction (LS), it is assumed that the covariates of high and low LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the West. In this paper, analysing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, with a limited replication based on Australian panel data, we estimate models of alternative 'recipes' for LS. There appear to be at least four distinct 'recipes', ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 982)
| Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
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In most previous research on the determinants of Life Satisfaction (LS), there has been an implicit assumption that ‘one size fits all’. That is, it has usually been assumed that the covariates of LS are the same for everyone, or at least everyone in the Western world. In this paper, using data from the long-running German Socio-Economic Panel (1984-), we estimate statistical models to assess the effects ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
145 (2019), 2, 581-613
| Bruce Headey, Gert G. Wagner
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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 ...
In:
Journal of Financial Transformation
15 (2005), 59-67
| Bruce Headey, Marc Wooden
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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). ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
142 (2019), 2, 713-732
| Bruce Headey, Jongsay Yong
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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 ...
2016,
| Marcel Hebing