Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Exchange-rate pass-through and the currency of denomination of workers’ remittances

We introduce and adopt the concept of exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT) to the flow of remittances to discern whether remittance flows appear to be defined in home or host currencies. We use Poisson estimation on the German socio-economic longitudinal panel for migrants living in Germany concerning eight remittance corridors. We find that ERPT is complete for Germany-based migrants originating in Romania, ...

The Psychometric Properties and Validity of the 5-Item German-Language Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale in the SOEP-IS (SOEP-GCIPS)

The impostor phenomenon (IP) refers to individual differences in difficulties in internalizing positive feedback and success, and fear of being exposed as an intellectual fraud. The 2015 wave of the SOEP-IS study included five of the 20 items of the German-language Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale. This study analyzed the psychometric properties and validity of the IP measure used in the SOEP-IS data ...

Testing the longitudinal relations between depression, anxiety, and the Impostor Phenomenon with the SOEP-IS data from 2012 to 2018

The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes individual differences in self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence despite evidence of capability. The IP relates to reduced mental health and the “Impostor cycle” suggests that the IP is interdependent with depressiveness and anxiety in a maintaining fashion. The present study used three waves of data (2012, 2015, and 2018) from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation ...

Testing the temporal stability and longitudinal measurement invariance of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 across six years with the Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation Sample

The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) is a standard screening instrument for depression and anxiety. Based on its short length it is frequently used in large panel studies. While there is robust evidence for several aspects of the PHQ-4's reliability and validity, the knowledge about its temporal stability is very limited, with few studies only providing findings that are affected by small ...

From Low Emission Zone to academic track: Environmental policy effects on educational achievement in elementary school

Do long-term improvements in air quality influence children’s educational outcomes? This paper investigates the impact of Low Emission Zones (LEZs), which restrict access to designated areas for emission-intensive vehicles, on the educational achievement of elementary school students in Germany. Using school-level data from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, we exploit the staggered ...

Reliability of educational attainment of survey respondents: an overlooked barrier to comparability?

Educational attainment is vital in social science research for analysing socioeconomic inequalities, labour market outcomes, and health disparities. Harmonisation schemes such as the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and its survey-specific adaptation EDULVLB aim to standardise educational classifications across countries, enabling international comparability. Despite their ...

How a Mismatch Between Actual and Desired Fertility Relates to Well-Being Across Adulthood

ABSTRACT Introduction Most people want two or more children, but many do not realize their fertility desires. At the same time, recent studies suggest that up to 15% of parents regret having children. To investigate how fertility mismatch relates to well-being (i.e., affect balance, life satisfaction, family life satisfaction, and work satisfaction), this preregistered study used nationally representative ...

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Health shocks and health behavior: a long-term perspective

Several empirical papers suggest that individuals improve health-related behaviors in response to adverse shocks to physical health. However, little evidence exists regarding the questions of (i) how long-lasting these behavioral responses are and (ii) whether individuals respond similarly to mental health shocks. Using individual-level survey data from Germany and combining regression augmented inverse-probability ...

The hiring of older workers: evidence from Germany

This article analyses how hiring older workers adjusts to demographic change in the labour force by using information from more than 500,000 firms in Germany. We find robust evidence that firms faced with an ageing labour market hire relatively more older workers. However, the pace of this adjustment is relatively slow, particularly when ageing happens outside the firm. The tendency to employ older ...