Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Born in the land of milk and honey: Hometown growth and individual wealth accumulation

How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we find that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...

Kinder, deren Eltern länger in Elternzeit waren, sind als Erwachsene glücklicher — zeigt eine Langzeitstudie

Eltern, die in der ehemaligen DDR nach dem 1. Mai 1986 ein Kind bekamen, gewährte der Staat nach einer Reform ein Jahr bezahlte Elternzeit. Forscherinnen des ifo Instituts zeigen nun: Die Lebenszufriedenheit der Kinder erhöhte sich durch die Extra-Zeit mit ihren Müttern langfristig. Vor der Reform hatten fast alle Eltern in der ehemaligen DDR ihren Nachwuchs schon nach fünf Monaten in eine Kinderkrippe ...

IW-Verteilungsreport 2021: Wohlstand für alle? Inklusives Einkommenswachstum vor Corona

Im Lichte der Bundestagswahl widmet sich der IW-Verteilungsreport 2021 der Frage, ob die besonders in Wahlkampfzeiten oft bemühte Behauptung einer sich weiter öffnenden Einkommensschere zwischen Arm und Reich der Faktenlage standhält. Dazu wird neben der Entwicklung der Primärverteilung insbesondere die Entwicklung der jährlichen Arbeitseinkommen seit der Wiedervereinigung betrachtet. Als Wohlstandsmaß ...

Educational Choices in Germany: Empirical Essays in the Economics of Education

How is the way we spend our time related to psychological wellbeing? A cross-sectional analysis of time-use patterns in the general population and their associations with wellbeing and life satisfaction

Background: Time-use surveys can closely monitor daily activities, times of stress and relaxation, and examine predictors and trajectories with regard to health. However, previous studies have often neglected the complex interaction of daily activities when looking at health outcomes. Methods: Using latent profile analysis, this study examined patterns of self-reported daily time use (0–12h hours) ...

Gender and Educational Inequalities in Extending Working Lives: Late-Life Employment Trajectories Across Three Decades in Seven Countries

Public policies encourage later retirement, but they often do not account for discrepancies in the capacity for extending working lives. This paper studies trends and inequalities in extending working lives between 1990 and 2019 from gender and education perspectives in seven countries (Australia, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States). The three-decade-long data ...

Selbst zahlen für Tests: Außerhalb des Paradieses hat nun mal alles seinen Preis: Kommentar

Selbstbindungen der (Wirtschafts-)Politik an eindimensionale Indikatoren wie die Schuldenbremse (und Corona-Inzidenz) sind methodisch fragwürdig

Gendered occupational aspirations among German youth: Role of parental occupations, gender division of labour, and family structure

Objective: This study investigates how multiple domains of parental gender role socialisation as well as parent-child relationships and family structure may shape adolescents’ gendered occupational aspirations. Background: Young people with gender-typical aspirations have a higher chance of choosing gender-typical post-secondary education fields and are more likely to work in gender-typical occupations ...

Testing the Relationships Between Narcissism, Risk Attitude, and Income With Data From a Representative German Sample

Narcissism is related to income and risk-taking behavior, but previous studies have computed only pairwise associations and have used only domain-specific risk-taking measures. We jointly investigated narcissistic admiration and rivalry, income, and general risk attitude. Using a representative sample from the German population (N = 14,473), we contrasted a model assuming that risk attitude and narcissistic ...