%0 Report
        %A Rohrer, Julia
%A Bruemmer, Martin
%A Schupp, Jürgen
%A Wagner, Gert G.
        %T Worries across Time and Age in Germany: Bringing Together Open- and Close-Ended Questions
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Jun
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10861
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10861
        %X We investigate how worries in Germany change across time and age, drawing on both closed-ended questions (which typically list a number of worry items) and open-ended questions answered in text format. We find that relevant world events influence worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War, with a considerable number of respondents also referring to the Iraq war in their text responses. Furthermore, we found that - controlling for these historical effects - worries about various topics such as health and the general economic situation increase with age. With increasing age, respondents also became more likely to answer the open-ended question. This suggests that the age increases in worries we found are not merely a result of an age-biased choice of worry items, but instead also hold for worries self-generated by the respondents. 
        %K worries
%K German Socio-Economic Panel Study
%K SOEP
%K life course
%K satisfaction