Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

In this paper we estimate long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version where the effects of up to three consecutive years of care provision are analyzed. Our ...

In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies to express ...

Does price framing affect the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice?

This paper provides field evidence on how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health plans. In 2009 German federal regulation required insurers to express premium differences between standardized health plans in absolute euro values relative to a federal reference price, rather than in percentage point payroll tax differences. Representative individual level panel data and aggregated ...

Migration and Health – Empirical Analyses based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) (Dissertation)

The so-called 'healthy immigrant effect' (HIE) is one of the most striking findings concerning immigrants and their health status. It is usually said to consist of two parts: According to the first part, immigrants upon arrival are on average healthier than their native peers. This finding is mostly explained by self-selection among their origin population. The idea is that healthier individuals ...

Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Fertility and Maternal Employment: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial

This paper presents the results of a randomized study of a home visiting program implemented in Germany for low-income, first-time mothers. Besides improving child health and development, a major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family planning. I use administrative data from the German social security system and detailed telephone surveys to examine ...

How much can we trust maternal ratings of early child development in disadvantaged samples?

An increasing number of panel studies use short screening questionnaires to assess infant development. Although some research examines the validity of screening questionnaires for middle-class families, knowledge about their accuracy in disadvantaged households is scarce. This paper validates a short screening questionnaire included in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with the Bayley Scales of ...

Geschlechtsspezifisches elterliches Verhalten gegenüber Kleinkindern - eine empirische Untersuchung

Verschiedene Studien zeigen, dass Jungen im Bildungssystem schlechter abschneiden als Mädchen. Um die Ursachen und die zeitliche Entwicklung dieses Phänomens zu untersuchen, haben Thomas Mößle, Christian Pfeiffer und Dirk Baier vom Kriminologischen Forschungsinstitut Niedersachsen (KfN) den Sammelband "Die Krise der Jungen" herausgegeben, erschienen im Nomos Verlag. Hierzu haben Malte Sandner ...

Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Heteroskedasticity

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates in the absence of instruments and parameter interpretation that is not bounded to local average ...

Wiederbeschäftigungsbedingungen nach Arbeitslosigkeit - Eine Längsschnittanalyse mit den Daten des Sozio-Ökonomischen Panels (Diplomarbeit)

Changes in Income After Unemployment