Im Oktober 2024 findet wieder die Workshopreihe "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" statt. In diesem Online-Workshop erhalten die Teilnehmer*innen eine umfassende und praxisnahe Einführung in die Panelstudie SOEP. Es werden die Inhalte der Studie, Datenstruktur, Stichprobenauswahl sowie die Gewichtungsstrategie vermittelt. Zudem wird ein Überblick über die Studiendokumentationen gegeben. Für ...
In October 2024, the online workshop series "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" returns. This workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To ...
We investigate the effects of a climatic shock on individuals’ tax deduction and tax payable patterns, alongside their income dynamics. Using individual-level annual tax return data and exploiting the 2010–2011 Queensland Floods in Australia as a natural experiment, we find that the floods affect different income groups differently. They also lead to persistent higher tax deductions for high-income ...
We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is – starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent – two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female-owned firms than in male-owned firms. Results are ...
Die Bekämpfung von Antibiotikaresistenzen stellt eine der größten gesundheitspolitischen Herausforderungen dar. Dabei wird das Verschreiben von Antibiotika in Allgemeinarztpraxen als eine der Hauptursachen für das Auftreten resistenter Bakterien angesehen. Schwer zu ermitteln ist jedoch, ob die Verwendung von Antibiotika in jedem Fall medizinisch notwendig ist. Für Dänemark konnte nachgewiesen werden, ...
Current psychological theories on daily social interactions emphasize individual differences yet are underspecified regarding contextual factors. We aim to extend this research by examining how two context factors shape social interactions in daily life: how many relationships people maintain and how densely people live together. In Study 1, 307 German participants (Mage = 39.44 years, SDage = 14.14) ...
