Publications with the SOEP Data
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Important publications about the SOEP
We are pleased to announce that the first Wave Report (1-2008) on the SOEP is now available! The ambitious aim is to provide on an annual basis a new type of social statistics for Germany; a longitudinal panel statistics describing the ways in which people's lives are changing. In addition - and equally important - the Wave Report will give a technical summary of the development of the survey and its fieldwork.SOEP Wave Report 1-2008 | PDF, 3.66 MB
If you want to cite an article in your publication describing SOEP and/or CNEF data, please refer to two articles recently published in Schmollers Jahrbuch (Journal of Applied Social Science Studies).:The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Scope, Evolution and Enhancements | PDF, 173.3 KB In: Schmollers Jahrbuch, Jg. 127, Heft 1 (2007), S. 139-169
(Gert G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick, and Jürgen Schupp
The Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) and its Member Country Household Panel Studies | PDF, 160.7 KB In: Schmollers Jahrbuch, Jg. 127, Heft 4 (2007), S. 627-654 (Joachim R. Frick, Stephen P. Jenkins, Dean R. Lillard, Oliver Lipps, and Mark Wooden)
For further publications in German language please refer to the German site.
Current documentations
Current Data Documentations
Simone Schneider, Jürgen Schupp:
Measuring the Selection of Pay Referents: A Methodological Analysis of the Questions on Pay Referents in the 2008 and 2009 SOEP Pretest Modules
DIW Data Documentation 48
| PDF, 316.38 KB
Martin Kroh:
Short-Documentation of the Update of the SOEP-Weights, 1984-2008
Martin Kroh
Documentation of Sample Sizes and Panel Attrition in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) (1984 until 2008)
DIW Data Documentation 47 | PDF, 0.56 MB
Peter Hintze, Tobia Lakes
Geographically Referenced Data in Social Science: A Service Paper for SOEP Data Users
DIW Data Documentation 46 | PDF, 3.56 MB
Markus M. Grabka
Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2008: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP
DIW Data Documentation 45 | PDF, 490.48 KB
Documents on the development of the survey
(mostly in German language)
Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner:
Individual and Neighborhood Determinants of Survey Nonresponse - An Analysis Based on a New Subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Microgeographic Characteristics and Survey-Based Interviewer Characteristics
SOEPpapers 288, 2010 | PDF, 1.1 MB
Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka,Gert G. Wagner
Eine exemplarische Anwendung der regionalisierten Preisniveau-Daten des BBSR auf die Einkommensverteilung für die Jahre 2005 bis 2008 - Zugleich eine Dokumentation verschiedener Preisniveau-Zeitreihen für das vereinigte Deutschland
SOEPpapers 284, 2010 | PDF, 0.92 MB
Jan Goebel, Michael Wurm, Gert G. Wagner:
Exploring the Linkage of Spatial Indicators from Remote Sensing Data with Survey Data - The Case of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and 3D City Models
SOEPpapers 283, 2010 | PDF, 0.74 MB
Jörg-Peter Schräpler:
Benford's Law as an instrument for fraud detection in surveys using the data of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
SOEPpapers 273, 2010 | PDF, 2.22 MB
Bartling, Björn, Ernst Fehr, Barbara Fischer, Fabian Kosse, Michel André Maréchal, Friedhelm Pfeiffer, Daniel Schunk, Jürgen Schupp, C. Katharina Spiess und Gert G. Wagner
Geduld von Vorschulkindern - Ergebnisse einer Experimentalstudie im Haushaltskontext von Kindern.
ZEW Discussion Paper No. 09-069, 2009
Recent SOEPpapers
SOEPpapers No. 290 | PDF, 0.98 MB Dealing with incomplete household panel data in inequality research (Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka, Olaf Groh-Samberg)
SOEPpapers No. 289 | PDF, 495.49 KB One Last Puff? Public Smoking Bans and Smoking Behavior (Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler)
SOEPpapers No. 288 | PDF, 1.1 MB Individual and Neighborhood Determinants of Survey Nonresponse - An Analysis Based on a New Subsample of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), Microgeographic Characteristics and Survey-Based Interviewer Characteristics (Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner)
SOEPpapers No. 287 | PDF, 2.03 MB Where People Live and Die Makes a Difference:Individual and Geographic Disparities in Well-Being Progression at the End of Life (Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Jan Goebel, Jürgen Schupp, Ulman Lindenberger, and Gert G. Wagner)
SOEPpapers No. 286 | PDF, 1.02 MB Late-Life Decline in Well-Being Across Adulthood in Germany, the UK, and the US: Something is Seriously Wrong at the End of Life (Denis Gerstorf, Nilam Ram, Guy Mayraz, Mira Hidajat, Ulman Lindenberger, Gert G. Wagner, and Jürgen Schupp)
Recent journal articles
Casey, Teresa und Christian Dustmann. 2010. Immigrants' Identity, Economic Outcomes and the Transmission of Identity across Generations. Economic Journal 120, Nr. 542, F31 - F51.
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola, Dirk Krueger und Mathias Sommer. 2010. Inequality trends for Germany in the last two decades: A tale of two countries. Review of Economic Dynamics 13, Nr. 1, 103-132.
Haan, Peter. 2010. A Multi-state model of state dependence in labor supply: Intertemporal labor supply effects of a shift from joint to individual taxation. Labour Economics 17, Nr. 2, 323-335.
Knabe, Andreas und Steffen Rätzel. 2010. Income, happiness, and the disutility of labour. Economics Letters 107, Nr. 1, 77-79.
more publications in our database SOEPlit
Recent publications on public policy
Badunenko, Oleg, Nataliya Barasinska, and Dorothea Schäfer. 2010. Investments: Women are more cautious than men because they have less financial resources at their disposal. Weekly Report 6, no. 1, 1-4. | PDF, 241.95 KB
Frick, Joachim R., and Markus M. Grabka. 2010. Old-age pension entitlements mitigate inequality - but concentration of wealth remains high. Weekly Report 6, no. 8, 55-64 | PDF, 277.51 KB .
Holst, Elke, and Anita Wiemer. 2010. Women Still Greatly Underrepresented on the Top Boards of Large Companies. Weekly Report 6, no. 7, 45-53 | PDF, 191.38 KB .
Kroh, Martin, and Ingrid Tucci. 2010. The Party Identification of Germany's Immigrant Population: Parties Should Not Fear Eased Naturalization Requirements. Weekly Report 6, no. 4, 20-26 | PDF, 239.65 KB .
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