Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Economic Approaches to Understanding Change in Happiness

Are people condemned to an inherent level of experienced happiness? A review of the economic research on subjective well-being gives reason to the assessment that happiness can change. First, empirical findings clearly indicate that people are not indifferent to adverse living conditions when reporting their subjective well-being as observed for limited freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, ...

The effects of exposure to images of others' suffering and vulnerability on altruistic, trust-based, and reciprocated economic decision-making

In this paper we explored the effects of exposure to images of the suffering and vulnerability of others on altruistic, trust-based, and reciprocated incentivized economic decisions, accounting for differences in participants’ dispositional empathy and reported in-group trust for their recipient(s). This was done using a pictorial priming task, framed as a memory test, and a triadic economic game design. ...

Statistical needs in Eastern Europe

The Connexion between Old and New Approaches to Financial Satisfaction

Perspectives from the Happiness Literature and the Role of New Instruments for Policy Analysis

Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se

Happiness Quantified - A Satisfaction Calculus Approach

An Almost Integration-free Approach to Ordered Response Models

Inequality and happiness

A Structural Model of Well-being: With an Application to German Data