Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Das soziale Wohlbefinden von Personen mit Migrationshintergrund in Deutschland: Ein dauerhaftes Defizit?

Parenting daughters does not increase monetary prosocial behavior: evidence from the Dictator game

Prior work suggests that parenting daughters makes the preferences of men more in line with those of women. We use behavior in a Dictator game as a measure of pure social preferences, to test whether parenting daughters increases prosociality, specifically charitable giving. Data is sourced from the German Socio-Economic Panel, where 1,461 participants decided how to split a 50€ endowment between themselves ...

Hygiene Behavior in Face of the Corona Pandemic: Compliance Rates and Associations With Fear, SARS-COV-2 risk, Mental Health and Disability

Background: During the COVID-19 pandemic, hygiene behaviors such as keeping distance, avoid-ing masses, wearing face masks and adhering to hand hygiene recommendations became impera-tive. The current study aims to determine factors interrelating with hygiene behaviors. Methods: 4,049 individuals (1,305 male, 2,709 female, aged 18-80 years) were recruited from rehabilitation clinics or freely on the ...

Leben wir in einer Angstgesellschaft?: Die Verbreitung von persönlichen und gesellschaftsbezogenen Sorgen in Deutschland

Happiness adaptation to high income: Evidence from German panel data

This paper is the first to use national representative panel data to demonstrate that individuals do not adapt to high income in the long run: after five or more years, the life satisfaction of high-income people is still higher than that of the average population. Using entropy balancing (EB) matching and Lasso variable selection to reweight the control group yields similar results.

Politische Präferenzen: Wie Zugewanderte die Wahl mitentscheiden könnten

In Deutschland leben 21 Millionen Menschen mit Einwanderungsgeschichte. Eine Studie zeigt, wie sehr sie sich bestimmten Parteien verbunden fühlen. Die lassen den Forschern zufolge viel Potenzial ungenutzt.

Time, Income and Subjective Well-Being – 20 years of Interdependent Multidimensional Polarization in Germany

Society drifts apart in many dimensions. Economists focus on income of the poor and rich and the distribution of income but a broader spectrum of dimensions is required to draw the picture of multiple facets of individual life. In our study of multidimensional polarization we extend the income dimension by time, a pre-requisite and fundamental resource of any individual activity. In particular, we ...

On the Use of Aggregate Survey Data for Estimating Regional Major Depressive Disorder Prevalence

Major depression is a severe mental disorder that is associated with strongly increased mortality. The quantification of its prevalence on regional levels represents an important indicator for public health reporting. In addition to that, it marks a crucial basis for further explorative studies regarding environmental determinants of the condition. However, assessing the distribution of major depression ...

Reservation Raises: The Aggregate Labor Supply Curve at the Extensive Margin

We measure extensive-margin labor supply (employment) preferences in two representative surveys of the U.S. and German populations. We elicit reservation raises: the percent wage change that renders a given individual indifferent between employment and nonemployment. It is equal to her reservation wage divided by her actual, or potential, wage. The reservation raise distribution is the nonparametric ...

The Evolution of Educational Wage Differentials for Women and Men, from 1996 to 2019

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany, a period when significant changes in the educational composition of the workforce took place. Based on regression analysis and samples of male and female workers from the Socio-Economic Panel Study, the study finds that while all three educational wage differentials increased, workers graduating ...