Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

E-lections: Voting Behavior and the Internet

This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, ...

Mindestlohn in Deutschland: Wie viele sind betroffen?

Wie risikobereit sind die Deutschen?

Kontrolliert und repräsentativ: Beispiele zur Komplementarität von Labor- und Felddaten

In this paper we discuss the complementarity of laboratory and field data. Experiments offer highly controlled environments that allow precise testing and causal inferences. Survey and field data on the other hand provide information on large and representative samples of people interacting in their natural environment. We discuss several concrete examples how to combine lab and field data and how ...

Early Childhood Environment, Breastfeeding and the Formation of Preferences

This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then investigate how early childhood environment affects the formation of fundamental economic preferences such as time, ...

Unfair Pay and Health

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach that exploits complementarities between controlled laboratory and representative panel data. In a simple principal–agent experiment, agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment ...

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay

This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent’s reward expectation is not met. Throughout the experiment we record agents’ heart rate variability. ...

Geschlechtsspezifische Ungleichheit im vereinten Deutschland

Gemeinsame Startbedingungen in Ost und West? Risiken beim Berufseinstieg und deren Folgen im weiteren Erwerbsverlauf

Berufseinstiege haben für berufliche Verläufe eine weichenstellende Funktion. Mit der beruflichen Erstplatzierung werden nicht nur die Entscheidungen über die Einkommens- und Karriereentwicklung gefällt, sondern auch über die Stabilität der Beschäftigung im weiteren Erwerbsverlauf. Berufseinstiege sind neben der Analyse beruflicher Mobilitätsprozesse zentraler Untersuchungsgegenstand der Berufsverlaufsstudie ...

Risikoreiche Berufseinstiege in Ostdeutschland? Ein Ost-West-Vergleich