We try to answer apparently simple but intriguing questions from daily life. For example:
- Can beauty affect employment chances and income level?
- How does unemployment affect happiness?
- Does owning a pet makes you live longer?
- Can working from home increase employee's work effort?
- Why can't money buy happiness?
- What is the impact of a vegetarian diet?
- Are lefthander different from righthander?
All of these question are based on underlying relationships between two concepts. We try to explain or predict the outcome y by measuring and manipulating the explanatory concept x (holding other factors constant).
Possible topics for empirical projects are the relationships between
- Happiness (y) and Death (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Birth (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Marriage (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Unemployment (main x)
- Happiness (y) and watching TV (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Self-Employment (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Commuting (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Income (main x)
- Happiness (y) and Vegetarianism (main x)
- Health (y) and Unemployment (main x)
- Health (y) and Religion (main x)
- Health (y) and Migration Background (main x)
- Health (y) and Pet Ownership (main x)
- Health (y) and Commuting (main x)
- Income (y) and Obesity (main x)
- Income (y) and Marriage (main x)
- Income (y) and Gender (main x)
- Income (y) and Handedness (main x)
- Productiviy (y) and Home Office (main x)
If it is in SOEP, we can analyse it.