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Economic Bulletin
The real disposable income of private households in Germany, accounting for inflation, rose by 12 percent between 1991 and 2014. This is what the present study based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has shown. However, the trends varied greatly depending on income group. While the middle income segment rose by more than eight percent, the highest income segment increased by up to 26 percent. ...
03.02.2017| Jan Goebel, Markus M. Grabka
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Interview
Mr. Grabka, the German economy has flourished in recent years. To what extent is its economic growth reflected in the growth of income?
On average across the total population disposable household income after inflation has risen, but depending on their income level, various segments of the population have contributed to this increase differently. [...]
03.02.2017| Markus M. Grabka
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper estimates sibling correlations in cognitive and non-cognitive skills to evaluate the importance of family background for skill formation. Based on a large representative German dataset including IQ test scores and measures of non-cognitive skills, a restricted maximum likelihood model indicates a strong relationship between family background and skill formation. Sibling correlations in non-cognitive ...
In:
Journal of Population Economics
30 (2017), 2, S. 591-620
| Silke Anger, Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in at least three dimensions decisive for their later achievements: material standard of living, parental education, ...
In:
German Economic Review
18 (2017), 3, S. 327-376
| Charlotte Bartels, Maximilian Stockhausen
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Lifespan research has long been interested in how contexts shape individual development. Using the separation and later reunification of Germany as a kind of natural experiment we examine whether and how living and dying in the former East or West German context has differentially shaped late-life development of well-being. We apply multi-level growth models to annual reports of life satisfaction collected ...
In:
International Journal of Behavioral Development
41 (2017), 1, S. 115-126
| Nina Vogel, Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Gert G. Wagner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Statistical analysis in surveys is generally facing missing data. In longitudinal studies for some missing values there might be past or future data points available. The question arises how to successfully transform this advantage into improvedimputation strategies. In a simulation study the authors compare six combinations of cross-sectional and longitudinal imputation strategies for German wealth ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
10 (2016), 3, S. 237-252
| Christian Westermeier, Markus M. Grabka
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Externe Working Papers
We solve the problem of a social planner who seeks to minimize inequality via transfers with a fixed public budget in a distribution of exogenously given incomes. The appropriate solution method depends on the objective function: If it is convex, as in the case of the absolute mean deviation, it can be solved by an interior-point algorithm. If it is quasiconvex, as in case of the Gini coefficient, ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin, FB Wirtschaftswiss.,
2016,
18 S.
(Discussion Paper / School of Business & Economics ; 2016,16)
| Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) provides information about house-hold wealth (real and financial assets as well as liabilities) from 15 Euro-countries around the year 2010 (first wave). The survey will be the central dataset in this topic in the future. However, several aspects point to potential methodological constraints regarding cross-country comparability. Therefore the aim ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
10 (2016), 2, S. 119-142
| Anita Tiefensee, Markus M. Grabka
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Externe Working Papers
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the effects are gone within a year. These conclusions ...
Paris:
PES,
2016,
47 S.
(PSE Working Paper ; 2016,16)
| Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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Externe Working Papers
We show that hosting the Olympic Games in 2012 had a positive impact on the life satisfaction and happiness of Londoners during the Games, compared to residents of Paris and Berlin. Notwithstanding issues of causal inference, the magnitude of the effects is equivalent to moving from the bottom to the fourth income decile. But they do not last very long: the effects are gone within a year. These conclusions ...
London:
CEP,
2016,
47 S.
(CEP Discussion Paper ; 1441)
| Paul Dolan, Georgios Kavetsos, Christian Krekel, Dimitris Mavridis, Robert Metcalfe, Claudia Senik, Stefan Szymanski, Nicolas R. Ziebarth