Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Testing Logit Models in Practice

The aim of the paper is to provide the practioner with easily implementable procedures, both numerical and graphical, to test the specification of the dichotomous, linear-in-coefficents logit model. We discuss the performance of these asymptotic methods in small samples on the basis of Monte-Carlo simulations and apply them to a cross-section study of female labour supply in West Germany.

Some Specification Tests for Static Limited Dependent Variable Models Estimated on Panel Data

The Dynamics of Self-Employment in East Germany - An Empirical Analysis Using Panel Data and Allowing for State Dependence and Endogenous Attrition

Koreferat zu Felix Büchel, Ulrich Rendtel und Johannes Schwarze. Einkommenseffekte von Arbeitslosigkeit und Kurzarbeit im ostdeutschen Transformationsprozeß

Sons, Daughters, and Parental Behaviour

Psychology and Family Economics

A substantial increase in the availability of data on psychosocial traits in large representative longitudinal samples has opened up new areas of research for economists and new opportunities for collaborations with psychologists. As an example, I incorporate personality into alternative economic models of marriage, with individual traits associated with either productivity in home or market sectors, ...

Personality and Marital Surplus

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the effect of personality traits on the formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for men and women born before 1960, suggesting that gender-specialized contributions to household public goods were an important source of marital surplus ...

Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health reveals another important mechanism in the determinants of educational attainment – differential ...

Self-selection models for public and private sector job satisfaction

We discuss a class of copula-based ordered probit models with endogenous switching. Such models can be useful for the analysis of self-selection in subjective well-being equations in general, and job satisfaction in particular, where assignment of regressors may be endogenous rather than random, resulting from individual maximization of well-being. In an application to public and private sector job ...

Can Happiness Change? The Short- and Long-Term Relationship Between Subjective Well-Being and External Circumstances (Dissertation)