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A reference guide to the history of Texas, including biographical sketches of notable individuals, histories of events, themes, counties, cities, and towns, and descriptions of physical features, with attention to the roles of women and minority groups.

Der Journalist Jakob Habanek verursacht einen tödlichen Verkehrsunfall. Sein Versuch, sich deshalb das Leben zu nehmen, wird vereitelt. Habaneks zweite Chance entwickelt sich immer mehr zu einem Albtraum, aus dem er zu erwachen versucht, bis er erkennen muss, dass es kein Entrinnen mehr gibt.

Ein Luxushotel hoch oben auf einer griechischen Vulkaninsel. Weiße Häuser. Tiefblaues Meer. Schwarze Strände. Für sieben handverlesene Gäste erfüllt sich dieser Urlaubstraum. Bis eines Morgens eine Leiche im Pool treibt und sich die Abgeschiedenheit als tödliche Falle entpuppt. Wenn jeder der Mörder sein kann – wem kannst du dann noch vertrauen?

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the non-pecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment, regular employment and employment accompanied by welfare receipt. Working makes people generally better off than being unemployed, but employed welfare recipients do not reach the life satisfaction level of regular employees. This implies that welfare receipt entails non-compliance with the norm to make one's own living. Our findings allow us to draw cautious conclusions on employment subsidies paid as welfare benefits.

How can we assess the welfare of a society, its evolution over time and predict its change due to particular policy interventions? One way is to use survey-based welfare indicators such as the OECD Better Life Index. It invites people to weight a variety of quality of life indicators according to their individual preferences. 11 broad dimensions aggregate these indicators. Our experiment shows that people do not provide consistent ratings across differently labelled dimensions that embed the same indicators. They also do not adjust the rating of equally named dimensions changing sets of indicators. These results show that survey-based measures might suffer from strong embedding effects and, as a result, may fail to measure citizens' true preferences for the indicators.