Study Caliendo & Tübbicke (2019): study DE 2013
- Public
- Participants in a subsidized business start-up program and controls, Germany, followed 40 months 2013-2016
- Survey name
- Unnamed study
- Sample
- Respondents
- N = 2452
- Non Response
- Assessment
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Interview: Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI)
T1 20 month after entry in program T2 40 months after entry in program
Correlate
- Authors's Label
- Participation in subsidized business start-up program
- Our Classification
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- Remarks
- Control group propensity score matched for - socio-demographics - age - sexe (share female) - education (share university) - Labour market history - fraction unemployed in last 10 years - daily last income - share self-employed before undmployment - share wage-employment before unemployment - intergenerational transmission - share parentshaving been self-employed - Personality - Concientiousness - - extraversion - Agreableness - Neuroticism - Openness - Readiness to take risks - Locus of control - regional characteristics - macro-economic conditiobs - share self-employed
- Related specification variables
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- Operationalization
- Unemployed people could apply for a subsidy. If their business plan weas approved, they received a monhtly equivalent of their unemployment benefits and some additions; on total about 10.000 Euro a year.
1 Participants
0 Controls
a unmatched
b matched
Observed Relation with Happiness
T1 T2 T2-T1
UNMATCHED
Participants 5,68 5,62 -0,06
Controls 5,02 5,21 +0,18
- difference +0,66(000) +0,41(000) -0,12(ns)
- difference +0,15(022) +0,01(ns)
Slightly (but not significantly) stronger among
- males
- below age 45
- high skilled
Happiness assessed at
T1 20 months after entry in program
T2 40 months after entry in program