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Previous cross-sectional and intervention studies have suggested that pet owners may enjoy better physical and mental health than non-owners. This paper presents longitudinal evidence from a major national representative longitudinal survey: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Because the data are longitudinal, it is possible to assess the impact on health outcomes (measured by number of doctor ...
Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2004,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 434)
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Social Indicators Research
80 (2007), 2, 297-311
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Peggy McCardle, Sandra McCune, James A. Griffin, Valerie Maholmes ,
How Animals Affect Us: Examining the Influence of Human–Animal Interaction on Child Development and Human Health
Washington: American Psychological Association
153-162
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka
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In:
Australian Social Monitor
5 (2002), 4, 93-99
| Bruce Headey, Markus M. Grabka, Jonathan Kelley, Prasuna Reddy, Yi-Ping Tseng
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Berlin:
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB),
1990,
(Diskussionspapier Nr. 90-103)
| Bruce Headey, Roland Habich, Peter Krause
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A framework of welfare accounts (Juster and Stafford, 1985; Headey, 1993; see also Goodin et al., 1999) is used to assess gains and losses to East and West Germans in the post-reunification period, 1990-97. The welfare accounts have three segments: a capital/stocks account, an income/flows account and a subjective welfare/psychic income account. This framework differs from conventional welfare economic ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
64 (2003), 1, 107-138
| Bruce Headey, Derek Headey
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This paper reviews changing income distributions in the United States, Germany, and the Netherlands, treating the three countries as leading economic performers in ‘the three worlds of welfare capitalism.’ Previous analyses have shown that earnings dispersion is increasing. The potential impact of government through the tax and transfer system has been largely ignored. It is shown that in the United ...
In:
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of German Socio-Economic Panel Study Users. Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung
70 (2001), 1, 115-122
| Bruce Headey, Stephen Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels
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The 1980s and 1990s have been decades of quite good economic growth in North America and much of Western Europe. But how have the fruits of growth been shared? This paper reviews changing income distributions in the U.S., Germany and the Netherlands. These three countries may be taken as exemplars and leading economic performers in “the three worlds of welfare capitalism” (Esping-Andersen, 1990). The ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
65 (2004), 2, 125-144
| Bruce Headey, Stephen Headey, Ruud J. A. Muffels, Carla Janssen
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Researchers in the US have consistently reported substantial—not just statistically significant—links between religious belief and practice, and improved health and longevity. In this paper we report evidence for Germany, using data from the long-running, nationally representative German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP 1984). The SOEP dataset includes multiple measures of health, plus many ‘controls’ which ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
119 (2014), 3, 1335-1361
| Bruce Headey, Gerhard Hoehne, Gert G. Wagner
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This is the first of what, it is hoped, will become an annual series of Wave Reports on the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey Study (SOEP). SOEP has now been running for a quarter of century (1984-2008). Twenty-five waves of data have been collected. So some respondents, about 2,500 middle aged and older people, have kindly agreed to be interviewed twenty-five times. The central theme of SOEP is ‘subjective ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2008,
| Bruce Headey, Elke Holst