Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health

In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. The results suggest that there is a considerable negative short-term effect of informal care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision the effect ...

Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

In this paper we estimate long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version where the effects of up to three consecutive years of care provision are analyzed. Our ...

In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies to express ...

Does price framing affect the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice?

This paper provides field evidence on how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health plans. In 2009 German federal regulation required insurers to express premium differences between standardized health plans in absolute euro values relative to a federal reference price, rather than in percentage point payroll tax differences. Representative individual level panel data and aggregated ...

Kita-Pflicht für Kinder ab drei Jahren wäre wenig zielgenau

Die allermeisten Kinder im Alter von drei bis sechs Jahren – 94 Prozent – gehen in eine Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita). Mit Blick auf die übrigen sechs Prozent vermuteten viele ExpertInnen und BeobachterInnen, dass es sich vor allem um Kinder aus sozioökonomisch benachteiligten Haushalten handelt. Die vorliegende Studie, die auf Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Zusatzstichprobe Familien ...

Mandatory day care for preschool children would not be an effective solution in targeting particular children

In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged households, do not use day care. Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the Families in Germany survey (FiD), the present study is one of the first ...

Kindertageseinrichtungen: Ausgaben der Familien sind von 1996 bis 2015 mitunter deutlich gestiegen

Die Ausgaben der privaten Haushalte für die Betreuung in Kindertageseinrichtungen sind in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen: für ein Kind unter drei Jahren von durchschnittlich 98 Euro monatlich im Jahr 2005 auf knapp 171 Euro im Jahr 2015 und für ein Kind im Kindergartenalter (ab drei Jahre) in den Jahren 1996 bis 2015 von 71 auf 97 Euro. Gleichzeitig wurde der Kita-Besuch von immer mehr Kindern ...

Immigration and the Evolution of Local Cultural Norms

We study the local evolution of cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with very high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families followed the traditional breadwinner-housewife model. We find that West German women increase their labor supply and that this holds within household. ...

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