Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Erhebung von subjektiven Diskriminierungserfahrungen: Erste Ergebnisse von Testfragen in der SOEP Innovations-Stichprobe 2016

Gleiche Rechte, gleiche Chancen - Jahresbericht 2018 der Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes

Biased Health Perceptions and Risky Health Behaviors - Theory and Evidence

This paper investigates the role of biased health perceptions as driving forces of risky health behavior. We define absolute and relative health perception biases, illustrate their measurement in surveys and provide evidence on their relevance. Next, we decompose the theoretical effect into its extensive and intensive margin: When the extensive margin dominates, people (wrongly) believe they are healthy ...

Testing the Social Investment Principle Around Childbirth: Little Evidence for Personality Maturation Before and After Becoming a Parent

Abstract In line with the social investment principle, becoming a parent should lead to more mature behaviour and an increase in conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability. However, previous research provided mixed results that do not support this idea. Here, we used data from a nationally representative household panel study from Germany (N = 19 875) to examine whether becoming a parent ...

Economic downturns and mental health in Germany

We study the impact of the macroeconomic environment on mental health in Germany. Endogeneity concerns are tackled using a shift-share instrumental variables approach in which exposure to macroeconomic fluctuations is estimated from regional variations in historical industry sector composition. Estimation results reveal strong procyclical effects on the 12-item short form survey’s mental health component ...

Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? Steuerbelastung nur schwach progressiv

Eine umfassende mikrodatenbasierte Analyse zu den Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuersystems im Jahr 2015 zeigt, dass die gesamte Steuerbelastung aus direkten und indirekten Steuern bei steigenden Einkommen nur moderat progressiv verläuft und in den unteren Dezilen regressiv wirkt. Zwar sind die Einkommen- und Unternehmensteuern stark progressiv. Sie belasten Haushalte mit niedrigen und mittleren ...

Does the German Minimum Wage Help Low Income Households?: Evidence from Observed Outcomes and the Simulation of Potential Effects

Does the federal minimum wage in Germany introduced in 2015 improve the income situation of low income households and reduce in-work poverty? Previous literature on its distributional impact was either focused on earnings and hourly wages (e.g. Caliendo et al., 2017), or is based on ex-ante simulations (e.g. Müller and Steiner, 2013). This paper provides systematic descriptive ex-post evidence on the ...

A test of risk vulnerability in the wider population

Panel data from the German SOEP is used to test for risk vulnerability (RV) in the wider population. Two different survey responses are analysed: the response to the question about willingness-to-take risk in general and the chosen investment in a hypothetical lottery. A convenient indicator of background risk is the VDAX index, an established measure of volatility in the German stock market. This ...

Gendered Time Allocation and Divorce: A Longitudinal Analysis of German and American Couples

Objective To examine the association between divorce and partners' allocation of paid and unpaid work, and change over a few key decades in both West Germany and the United States. Background Past research has indicated that partner similarity in time spent on both paid and unpaid work is associated with a higher risk of marital dissolution. We explore whether the association between paid work ...

Das Basisszenario des Generationenmonitors – Daten, Methodik und zentrale Annahmen

Der Generationenmonitor ist ein Modell, das auf der Methodik von Generationenkontenmodellen basiert. Es dient dazu, langfristige Auswirkungen der Gesetzgebung und der politischen Rahmenbedingungen zu analysieren und dadurch gegebenenfalls Handlungsbedarf abzuleiten. Dabei werden zum einen Annahmen über zukünftige Trends (wie etwa den demographischen Wandel oder eine steigende Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung) ...