Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Institutions, parental selection, and locus of control

Locus of control, that is, people's perception of how much influence they have over their lives, is an important predictor for economic outcomes - earnings, health and education, to name a few. This article uses difference-in-differences analysis to investigate the importance of the institutional environment for the development of locus of control, using the fall of the Berlin Wall as exogenous ...

Measurement of the Income Distribution: An Academic User's View

The British Household Panel Survey and its income data

This paper provides a self-contained introduction to the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), concentrating on aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain’s official personal income distribution statistics (Households ...

New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Why are Child Poverty Rates Higher in Britain than in Germany? A Longitudinal Perspective

We analyze why child poverty rates were much higher in Britain than in Western Germany during the 1990s, using a framework focusing on poverty transition rates. Child poverty exit rates were significantly lower, and poverty entry rates significantly higher, in Britain. We decompose these cross-national differences into differences in the prevalence of “trigger events” (changes in household composition, ...

Child poverty in Britain and Germany

Children in Poverty - A British-German Comparison for the 1990s

Einkommensarmut von Kindern - Ein deutsch-britischer Vergleich für die 90er Jahre

The Dynamics of Child Poverty: Britain and Germany Compared

We compare patterns of movements into and out of poverty by children in Britain and Western Germany using data from the British Household Panel Survey and the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1992-97. In Britain poverty persistence was greater, and poverty exit rates in particular were lower, than in Western Germany. In both countries, poverty was particularly persistent among children in ...

Using Household Panel Data to Understand the Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty