Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Informelle Pflege aus ökonomischer Sicht

The effects of education and working hours on health: A multivariate probit approach

Willing to be healthy? On the health effects of smoking, drinking and an unbalanced diet. A multivariate probit approach

In the theoretical literature, time and medical services are essential input factors for producing health capital. Based on the idea that individuals can influence their health through health investments, we use a multi-level approach to consider the role of health relevant behaviour in the health production process. We assume that besides medical services, health relevant be-haviour and outcomes are ...

Zur regionalen Entwicklung der Armut – Ergebnisse nach dem Mikrozensus 2015

The physician-patient relationship revisted: the patient's view

The importance of the physician-patient relationship for the health care market is beyond controversy. Recent work emphasizes a two-sided asymmetric information relationship between physician and patient. In contrast to most work looking only at the physician’s perspective, our paper concentrates on the patient’s view. Estimation results support the hypotheses that physician consultation and health ...

Improving Prevention Compliance through Appropriate Incentives: Theoretical Modelling and Empirical Evidence

This paper explores the effects of insurance parameters and complementary information environment on the patient's primary prevention activity. The theoretical model is based on a principal-agent setting in which the patient acts as an agent in deciding about his prevention efforts. The insurer chooses the coverage level and therefore the level of patient's cost sharing and decides on his ...

Survey-Interviews: Methoden standardisierter Befragungen (Studienskripten zur Soziologie)

„Big Data“ aus wissenschaftssoziologischer Sicht: Warum es kaum sozialwissenschaftliche Studien ohne Befragungen gibt

Konsequenzen der Panelmortalität im SOEP für Schätzungen der Lebenserwartung

A Sorting Hat that Fails? The transition from Primary to Secondary School in Germany

The recently published data from the Programme of International Student Assessment (PISA) has revealed that Germany ranks lowest among the OECD countries for educational equalities. This paper examines whether it is the tracking of children into different types of school environments at a particularly early stage of their intellectual development, i.e. at the transition from primary to secondary school, ...