Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Leben in Nordrhein-Westfalen: subjektive Einschätzungen als Teil der Wohlfahrtsmessung

In recent years, the debate about alternative measures of welfare (“beyond GDP”) has con-siderably gained momentum in Germany. This was the case not only on the national level: The demand for such measures has risen on the federal states level, too. For that reason, and in the context of a study whose main purpose was to calculate the Regional Welfare Index (RWI) for North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), we ...

Gesundheit alleinerziehender Mütter und Väter (Gesundheitsberichterstattung des Bundes Heft 14)

Income Inequality Developments in the Great Recession

The Choir Invisible - Zur Analyse der gesundheitsbezogenen Panelmortalität im Sozio-Ökonomischen Panel (SOEP)

Die Panelmortalität ist ein zentrales Problem bei der Durchführung und Beurteilung von Panelstudien. Bisherige Analysen des Nonresponse im SOEP berücksichtigen den möglichen Effekt von Krankheit oder Gesundheit auf die Panelmortalität nicht. Weder das Kontaktverlustmodell noch das Verweigerungsmodell erlauben zufriedenstellende Prognosen des individuellen Ausfalls. Die Verfasser zeigen, dass es in ...

Und jetzt tatsächlich LOSLASSEN?

Der Abnabelungsprozess fällt Eltern - und Kindern - oft nicht leicht. Über das Empty-Nest-Syndrom, Hotel Mama und die Kunst der Unabhängigkeit.

Immigration and Attitudes Towards Day Care

We examine the relationship between preferences for the public funding of school children day care and the share of foreign pupils in German jurisdictions. To this end, we employ multilevel models to analyze individual-level data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and data on different jurisdiction-levels from official sources. In contrast to a number of recent studies ...

Do Couples Bargain over Fertility? Evidence Based on Child Preference Data

Empirical literature has found evidence in favor of household bargaining models. In contrast to earlier tests that are limited to assignable private goods, we use child preference data in order to extend the empirical evidence on household bargaining to public household goods. In the empirical analysis, we exploit the different theoretical predictions for couples with heterogeneous and homogeneous ...

Unconditional Child Benefits, Mothers’ Labor Supply, and Family Well-Being: Evidence from a Policy Reform

In many parts of the developed world, governments devote a significant share of public funds to unconditional family cash transfers in an attempt to promote the economic well-being of households. But how successful are such policies? Germany has one of the world’s most generous child benefit systems, which was subject to a major reform in the mid-1990s. This article exploits the reform using a difference-in-differences ...

Political Socialization in Flux? Linking Family Non-Intactness during Childhood to Adult Civic Engagement

Some sociologists argue that non-intact family structures during childhood have a negative effect on adult children's civic engagement, since they undermine, and in some cases prevent, the processes and activities through which parents shape their children's political attitudes and orientations. In this paper, we evaluate this hypothesis on the basis of longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic ...

Das Ruhestandsverhalten der älteren Arbeitnehmer in Ost- und Westdeutschland - Eine empirische Untersuchung auf der Basis des Sozioökonomischen Panels