Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Locus of Control and Prosocial Behavior

We investigate how locus of control beliefs – the extent to which individuals attribute control over events in their life to themselves as opposed to outside factors – affect prosocial behavior and the private provision of public goods. We begin by developing a conceptual framework showing how locus of control beliefs serve as a weight placed on the returns from one’s own contributions (impure altruism) ...

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School Curricula, Educational Trajectories, and Labor Market Outcomes

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of how school curricula affect students in the classroom and beyond. Chapter 2 demonstrates ...

Dramatic effects but fast adaptation: Changes in life satisfaction and different facets of affective well-being around the death of a partner and death of a child

Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known about changes in different facets of affective well-being in the years surrounding the death of a loved one. On the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined changes in cognitive well-being (life satisfaction) and different facets of affective well-being (happiness, sadness, anxiety, and anger) ...

The Role of Within-Occupation Task Changes in Wage Development

We examine how changes in task content over time condition occupational wage development. Using survey data from Germany, we document substantial heterogeneity in within-occupational changes in task content. Combining this evidence with administrative data on individual employment outcomes over a 25-year period, we find important heterogeneity in wage penalties amongst initially routine intensive jobs. ...

The transition into motherhood from a life-course perspective: A comparison across first-generation immigrants in Germany

Previous research has examined when and why immigrant women living in Germany become mothers, provided they came from former guest-worker countries. However, less is known about the fertility behavior of other groups of international immigrants in Germany. This study investigates the transition to motherhood across first-generation immigrant women from three different regions of origin who were childless ...

Corona-Pandemie in Deutschland: Großteil der Menschen hatte Kontakt mit Sars-CoV-2

Das RKI veröffentlicht die Ergebnisse einer Antikörperstudie. Die ergibt, dass rund 90 Prozent der Erwachsenen vor 2022 mit Corona in Kontakt gekommen sind.

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 ...

Essays in Pension and Long-Term Care Policy

Diese Dissertation untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen der Pflege älterer Personen durch Angehörige und Freunde und dem Rentensystem. Die Arbeit besteht aus vier Kapiteln, in denen jeweils Mikroökonometrische Methoden auf Umfragedatensätze angewandt werden. Die ersten drei Kapitel nutzen Quasi-experimentelle Verfahren, um wichtige Parameter im Zusammenhang zwischen Altenpflege durch Angehörige und ...