Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Bremer Inititative zur Stärkung frühkindlicher Entwicklung (BRISE)

Untere Einkommensgruppen noch gezielter entlasten

Prices for energy and food are currently rising extraordinarily sharply. Households with low net incomes in particular are being burdened by the price increases, in some cases dramatically. According to current inflation forecasts, price increases for the lowest-income ten percent would mean a burden of 5.3 percent of their net household income in 2022. Since the low-income deciles cannot compensate ...

Biological perspective of socioeconomic inequality

An inductive typology of egocentric networks with data from the Socio-Economic Panel

In this article we apply Random Forests to data from the German Socio-Economic-Panel (SOEP), creating an inductive typology of egocentric networks. Using an earlier application of the machine learning algorithm as a guideline, we are putting the wider applicability of the method to the test by using data not exclusively constructed for network analysis and focusing on core networks of respondents. ...

Der Paritätische Teilhabebericht 2021: Armut von Menschen mit Behinderung

Zum internationalen Tag der Menschen mit Behinderung legt das von der Aktion Mensch Stiftung geförderte Projekt “Teilhabeforschung: Inklusion wirksam gestalten”, das an der Forschungsstelle des Paritätischen Gesamtverbandes angesiedelt ist, in diesem Jahr bereits zum dritten Mal einen Teilhabebericht vor, in dem aktuelle Ergebnisse zur Lebenslage von Menschen mit Behinderung vorgestellt werden. Der ...

Gender, loneliness and happiness during COVID-19

We analyse a measure of loneliness from a representative sample of German individuals interviewed in both 2017 and at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Both men and women felt lonelier during the COVID-19 pandemic than they did in 2017. The pandemic more than doubled the gender loneliness gap: women were lonelier than men in 2017, and the 2017-2020 rise in loneliness was far larger for ...

A Glimpse of Freedom: Allied Occupation and Political Resistance in East Germany

This paper exploits the idiosyncratic line of contact separating Allied and Soviet troops within East Germany at the end of WWII to study political resistance in a non-democracy. When Nazi Germany surrendered, 40% of what would become the authoritarian German Democratic Republic was initially under Allied control but was ceded to Soviet control less than two months later. Brief Allied exposure increased ...

Rather doomed than uncertain: risk attitudes and transmissive behavior under asymptomatic infection

We analyze the relation between individuals’ risk aversion and their willingness to expose themselves to infection when faced with an asymptomatic infectious disease. We show that in a high prevalence environment, increasing individuals’ risk aversion increases their propensity to engage in transmissive behavior. The reason for this result is that as risk aversion increases, exposure which leads to ...

Navigating the well-being effects of monetary policy: Evidence from the European Central Bank

This paper assesses whether monetary policy announcements have an impact on households’ (subjective) well-being by analysing life satisfaction on the days before and after monetary surprises in Germany. To do so, we use individual-level information on life satisfaction from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) survey and identify the day on which each answer is submitted to the survey. We also exploit ...

Big Five personality and religiosity: Bidirectional cross-lagged effects and their moderation by culture

Objective: Personality has long been assumed to be a cause of religiosity, not a consequence. Yet, recent research suggests that religiosity may well cause personality change. Consequently, longitudinal research is required that examines the bi-directionality between personality and religiosity. The required research must also attend to cultural religiosity—a critical moderator in previous cross-sectional ...