Schmollers Jahrbuch
Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 2007

Schmollers Jahrbuch 127 (1) 2007

Introduction
Ada Ferrer-i-Carbonell
Markus M. Grabka
Martin Kroh

Traditional Role Patterns, Family Background, and Intergenerational Income Mobility - Germany and the United States compared
Veronika V. Eberharter

Does the Effect of Social Origins on Educational Participation Change Over the Life Course in Germany? Social Inequalities in Entering the Academic School Type and Dropping Out
Thorsten Schneider

Intrafamilial Upstream Transfers and Household Production
Christoph Wunder

Job Mobility and Wage Mobility of High- and Low-paid Workers
Dimitris Pavlopoulos
Didier Fouarge
Ruud Muffels
Jeroen K. Vermunt

The Male Marital Wage Premium in Germany: Selection versus Specialization
Katherin Barg
Miriam Beblo

Winners and Losers over the 1990s Business Cycles in Germany, Great Britain, Japan, and the United States
Richard V. Burkhauser
Takashi Oshio
Ludmila Rovba

Happiness: Revising Set-Point Theory and Dynamic Equilibrium Theory to Account for Long Term Change
Bruce Headey

Initial Predictors of Life Satisfaction in Early Adulthood
Eileen Trzcinski
Elke Holst

Marriage Matters: Spousal Similarity in Life Satisfaction
Ulrich Schimmack
Richard Lucas

A Study of Mode-Effects of a Change from PAPI to CAPI
Jörg-Peter Schräpler

Determinants of Fertility - An Application of Machine Learning Techniques
Christin Schäfer
Christian Schmitt

European Data Watch

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Scope, Evolution and Enhancements
Gert G. Wagner
Joachim R. Frick
Jürgen Schupp

Computation of Standard Values for Physical and Mental Health Scale Scores Using the SOEP Version of SF12v2
Hanfried H. Andersen
Axel Mühlbacher
Matthias Nübling
Jürgen Schupp
Gert G. Wagner

Assessing Cognitive Capacities in Computer-Assisted Survey Research: Two Ultra-Short Tests of Intellectual Ability in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
Frieder R. Lang
David Weiss
Andreas Stocker
Bernhard von Rosenbladt