Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Reforming Health Care: Evidence from Quantile Regression for Counts

Econometric Analysis of Count Data. 5th Edition

The book provides graduate students and researchers with an up-to-date survey of statistical and econometric techniques for the analysis of count data, with a focus on conditional distribution models. Proper count data probability models allow for rich inferences, both with respect to the stochastic count process that generated the data, and with respect to predicting the distribution of outcomes. ...

Unemployment, Social Capital, and Subjective Well-Being

It has been shown in past research that unemployment has a large negative impact on subjective well-being of individuals. In this paper, I explore whether and to what extent people with more social capital are sheltered from the harmful effects of unemployment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984-2004, I find that social capital is an important predictor of well-being levels, but there ...

Unemployment and happiness - Successful policies for helping the unemployed need to confront the adverse effects of unemployment on feelings of life satisfaction

Many studies document a large negative effect of unemployment on happiness. Recent research has looked into factors related to impacts on happiness, such as adaptation, social work norms, social capital, religious beliefs, and psychological resources. Getting unemployed people back to work can do more for their happiness than compensating them for doing nothing. But not all unemployed people are equally ...

Analysis of Microdata (Second Edition)

Recursive Probability Estimators for Count Data

Ageing, Migration and Labour Mobility

Job Separations in an Efficient Turnover Model

Poisson-Logistic Regression

Count Data Models for Demographic Data