Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Personality stability and change: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies

Past research syntheses provided evidence that personality traits are both stable and changeable throughout the lifespan. However, early meta-analytic estimates were constrained by a relatively small universe of longitudinal studies, many of which tracked personality traits in small samples over moderate time periods using measures that were only loosely related to contemporary trait models such as ...

Good Bye Lenin Revisited: East-West Preferences Three Decades After Reunification

In this paper, we document that living under Communism vs. Capitalism has lasting effects on preferences for a strong government. Relying on the natural experiment of German reunification and extending the analysis of Alesina and Fuchs-Schündeln (2007), we show that East Germans still have stronger preferences for redistribution than West Germans 27 years after reunification. While convergence of preferences ...

Did Immigrants Perceive More Job Insecurity during the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic? Evidence from German Panel Data

Immigrants have been affected more than native-born ethnic majority populations by the negative economic consequences of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This contribution examines whether they have also experienced higher levels of perceived job insecurity, reflected in a differential increase in financial concerns and the fear of job loss during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. This empirical study employs the SOEP-CoV ...

The Determinants of Population Self-Control

This paper demonstrates that structural factors can shape people's self-control. We study the determinants of adult self-control using population-representative data and exploiting two sources of quasi-experimental variation-Germany's division and compulsory schooling reforms. We find that former East Germans have substantially higher levels of self-control than West Germans and provide evidence ...

Intergenerational Transmission of Welfare Benefit Receipt: Evidence from Germany

We study the intergenerational transmission of welfare receipt in Germany. We first describe the correlation of welfare receipt experienced in the parental household and subsequent own welfare receipt of young adults. In a second step, we investigate whether the observed correlations reflect causal effects using the Gottschalk (1996) approach and a family fixed effects estimation. We take advantage ...

Mortality, severe disability and long-term care in Germany: recent trends, differences and determinants

The stability of self-control in a population-representative study

We investigate the stability of self-control at the population level. Analyzing repeated Brief Self-Control Scale scores, we demonstrate that self-control exhibits a high degree of mean-level, rank-order, and individual-level stability over the medium term. Changes in self-control are not associated with major life events, nor are they economically important. The stability of self-control is particularly ...

Scared Straight? Threat and Assimilation of Refugees in Germany

This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and economic assimilation of refugees, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in their allocation across German regions between 2013 and 2016. We combine novel survey data on cultural preferences and economic outcomes of refugees with corresponding information on locals, and construct a threat index that integrates contemporaneous ...

Kapitaldeckung in der gesetzlichen Rente und privaten Altersvorsorge: Offene Fragen für die neue Legislaturperiode

Mit der einsetzenden Alterung der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge geraten Beitragssatz- und Sicherungsziele in der umlagefinanzierten GRV absehbar unter Druck. Um eine zunehmende intergenerative Verschiebung der Finanzierungslasten zu vermeiden, sieht die Ampel-Koalition deshalb den Einstieg in eine ergänzende, kapitalgedeckte Säule zur Finanzierung gesetzlicher Rentenansprüche vor. Was generationengerecht ...

Erbschaft: Mein Haus, meine Firma, mein schlechtes Gewissen

Antikapitalist sein – und erben? Erben – und Startkapital für alle fordern? Die Geschichten zweier Männer zeigen, dass immer mehr junge Menschen mit ihrem Erbe hadern.