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  • SOEPpapers 1146 / 2021

    Buying Control? 'Locus of Control' and the Uptake of Supplementary Health Insurance

    This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard deviation increase in the measure ...

    2021| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja DeNew
  • SOEPpapers 1145 / 2021

    Worrying about Work? Disentangling the Relationship between Economic Insecurity and Mental Health

    Literature encompassing economic insecurity and its relationship with mental health has increased significantly in recent years. While the association of job insecurity and mental health has been researched extensively, less is known about the general relationship between economic insecurity and mental health. This paper analyses the simultaneous influence of six different economic insecurity indicators ...

    2021| Paul Fiedler
  • SOEPpapers 1144 / 2021

    Sophistication about Self-Control

    We propose a broadly applicable empirical approach to classify individuals as time-consistent versus native or sophisticated regarding their self-control limitations. Operationalizing our approach based on nationally representative data reveals that self-control problems are pervasive and that most people are at least partly aware of their limited self-control. Compared to naifs, sophisticates have ...

    2021| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Sarah C. Dahmann, Daniel A. Kamhöfer, Hannah Schildberg-Hörisch
  • SOEPpapers 1143 / 2021

    Causality in the Link between Income and Satisfaction: IV Estimation with Internal Instruments

    Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require explicit identification strategies for estimating effects of income on life satisfaction. I address this issue using German SOEP data and Lewbel’s (2012) method, ...

    2021| Susanne Elsas
  • SOEPpapers 1142 / 2021

    Limited Self-knowledge and Survey Response Behavior

    We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the model predicts that the variance in responses for different characteristics increases in self-knowledge and ...

    2021| Armin Falk, Thomas Neuber, Philipp Strack
  • SOEPpapers 1141 / 2021

    Pension Wealth and the Gender Wealth Gap

    We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account employment characteristics of women and men, we are able and identify the extent to which the redistributive effect of pension rights reduces the gap. The empirical basis of this examination is the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), which is one of the few datasets where information on wealth ...

    2021| Karla Cordova, Markus M. Grabka, Eva Sierminska
  • SOEPpapers 1140 / 2021

    On the Right Track? – The Role of Work Experience in Migrant Mothers’ Current Employment Probability

    This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers’ current employment in Germany. Unlike previous papers, we focus on actual experience and add the motherhood aspect. To this end, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 2013-2018 including the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. Having immigrated to Germany and female sex are the two treatments of our sample of 491 migrant mothers, ...

    2021| Christina Boll, Andreas Lagemann
  • SOEPpapers 1139 / 2021

    Why a Labour Market Boom Does Not Necessarily Bring Down Inequality: Putting Together Germany’s Inequality Puzzle

    After an economically tough start into the new millennium, Germany experienced an unprecedented employment boom after 2005 only stopped by the COVID-19 pandemic. Persistently high levels of inequality despite a booming labour market and drastically falling unemployment rates constituted a puzzle, suggesting either that the German job miracle mainly benefitted individuals in the mid- or high-income range ...

    2021| Martin Biewen, Miriam Sturm
  • SOEPpapers 1138 / 2021

    Personality Maturation and Personality Relaxation: Differences of the Big Five Personality Traits in the Years around the Beginning and Ending of Working Life

    Objective: At work, people are confronted with clear behavioral expectations. In line with the Social Investment Principle, the beginning and ending of working life might thus promote changes in personality traits that are relevant at work (e.g., Conscientiousness). Method: Based on the data from the Socio- Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we examined nuanced differences of the Big Five personality traits ...

    2021| Eva Asselmann, Jule Specht
  • SOEPpapers 1137 / 2021

    SOEP-RV: Linking German Socio-Economic Panel Data to Pension Records

    The aim of the project SOEP-RV is to link data from participants in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey to their individual Deutsche Rentenversicherung (German Pension Insurance) records. For all SOEP respondents who give explicit consent to record linkage, SOEP-RV creates a linked dataset that combines the comprehensive multi-topic SOEP data with detailed cross-sectional and longitudinal ...

    2021| Holger Lüthen, Carsten Schröder, Markus M. Grabka, Jan Goebel, Tatjana Mika, Daniel Brüggmann, Sebastian Ellert, Hannah Penz
  • SOEPpapers 1136 / 2021

    Psychische Gesundheit im zweiten Covid-19 Lockdown in Deutschland

    Die vorliegende Studie vergleicht das Niveau der selbstberichteten psychischen Gesundheit und des Wohlbefindens in Deutschland im zweiten Covid-19 Lockdown (Januar/Februar 2021) mit der Situation im ersten Lockdown (März bis Juli 2020). Im zweiten Lockdown sank die Zufriedenheit mit der Gesundheit und stiegen die Sorgen um die Gesundheit im Vergleich zum ersten Lockdown. Beide Werte blieben aber weiterhin ...

    2021| Theresa Entringer, Hannes Kröger
  • SOEPpapers 1135 / 2021

    Using Mathematical Graphs for Questionnaire Testing in Large-Scale Surveys

    In this article, we present an automated test procedure for examining the filter structure and instructions implemented in electronic questionnaires, and for checking the fit of a questionnaire to the targeted sample. With our approach, we can represent and describe questionnaires using mathematical graphs and specify questionnaire properties in a formal and standardised way. It also allows us deriving ...

    2021| Katharina Stark, Sabine Zinn
  • SOEPpapers 1134 / 2021

    Why Time Cannot Heal All Wounds: Personal Wealth Trajectories of Divorced and Married Men and Women

    Amid concerns of long-term economic consequences of divorce, cross-sectional research illustrated that ever-divorce men but particularly women hold less per capita wealth than continuously married spouses in older age. Using a longitudinal approach and unique personal-level wealth data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, the present study aims to understand how divorce stratifies men’s and ...

    2021| Nicole Kapelle
  • SOEPpapers 1133 / 2021

    The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children

    Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-in-differences estimations show that, even after ...

    2021| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
  • SOEPpapers 1132 / 2021

    Time Spent on School-Related Activities at Home during the Pandemic: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Group Inequality among Secondary School Students

    Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...

    2021| Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer
  • SOEPpapers 1131 / 2021

    Shared Parenting and Parents’ Income Evolution after Separation: New Explorative Insights from Germany

    Based on panel data from 1997 to 2018, we investigate the socioeconomic preconditions and economic consequences of ‘shared parenting (SP)’ forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child residence and fathers’ childcare hours during a regular weekday. We explore the short-term gender and SP group associations with economic well-being as well as, ...

    2021| Christina Boll, Simone Schüller
  • SOEPpapers 1130 / 2021

    Hate Is Too Great a Burden to Bear: Hate Crimes and the Mental Health of Refugees

    Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity design in time to estimate the effect of ...

    2021| Daniel Graeber, Felicitas Schikora
  • SOEPpapers 1129 / 2021

    Income Changes Do Not Influence Political Participation: Evidence from Comparative Panel Data

    The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement, whether effects vary across the life-cycle, and whether parental income has an independent influence. Irrespective ...

    2021| Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
  • SOEPpapers 1128 / 2021

    Happiness, Domains of Life Satisfaction, Perceptions, and Valuation Differences across Genders

    Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), the importance of relative perceptions compared to absolute measures in predicting overall life satisfaction, and differences in the domains of life which have the greatest impact on happiness of men and ...

    2021| Stefani Milovanska-Farrington, Stephen Farrington
  • SOEPpapers 1127 / 2021

    Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

    Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...

    2021| Juliane Hennecke, Clemens Hetschko
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