Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Arbeitslosigkeit, Erwerbsarbeit und Armut. Längerfristige Armutsrisiken im Kontext von Haushalt und Sozialstruktur

Fakt und Artefakt in der Analyse von Arbeitslosigkeitsverläufen - Anmerkungen zu Thomas Kleins "Arbeitslosigkeit und Wiederbeschäftigung im Erwerbsverlauf"

Statistische Modellierung von Verlaufsdaten in der Analyse sozialer Probleme, Teil I: Grundlagen, Teil II: Datenauswertung

Was heißt, und gibt es kumulative Arbeitslosigkeit? Untersuchungen zu Arbeitslosigkeitsverläufen über 10 Jahre

Geldverwaltung und -verteilung in Paarbeziehungen

Die Armut der Gesellschaft

Statistik: Eine Einführung für Sozialwissenschaftler

Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel

In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...

Valuing air quality using the life satisfaction approach

I use the life satisfaction approach to value air quality, combining individual-level panel and highresolution SO2 data. To avoid simultaneity problems, I construct a novel instrument exploiting the natural experiment created by the mandated scrubber installation at power plants, with wind directions dividing counties into treatment and control groups. I find a negative effect of pollution on well-being ...

Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and Private Sectors

High unemployment rates entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, by exploiting sector-specific institutional differences in the exposure to economic shocks. Public servants have stricter dismissal protection and face a lower risk of their organization becoming ...