Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Which Decision Theory Describes Life Satisfaction Best? Evidence from Annual Panel Data

We use an annual household panel to test which features of prospect theory can be supported by measures of life satisfaction. We also test whether recalled or expected life satisfaction is anchored at current life satisfaction and adjusted in the direction of the recall or expectation. Using a fixed effects estimator we find that life satisfaction contains features of both classic expected utility ...

Impact of Inequality-Related Media Coverage on the Concerns of the Citizens

Income distribution and inequality play a central role in the public and political debate in many developed and democratic countries. An increasing literature on (mis)perception of the distribution of income reveals that people have very little knowledge about the degree of inequality in the society and its development over time. The jury is still out on what actually drives the perception of inequality ...

Does the Mortality of Individuals with Severe Disabilities Contribute to the Persistent East–West Mortality Gap Among German Men?

After three decades since reunification male life expectancy in East Germany still lags behind that of West Germany. Unlike most of the prior studies focusing on the role of socioeconomic factors, this study aims at assessing the contribution of the population with severe disabilities to the persistent East–West male mortality gap. Our analysis is mainly based on the German Pension Fund data. It is ...

Optionen zur Auszahlung einer Pro-Kopf-Klimaprämie für einen sozialverträglichen CO2-Preis: Endbericht; Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Finanzen (fe 3/19)

They are Doing Well, but is it by Doing Good? Pathways from Nonpolitical and Political Volunteering to Subjective Well-Being in Age Comparison

We investigated whether higher internal control beliefs (perceived control, political efficacy) and improved social relationships (lower loneliness, social support availability) mediated the associations between nonpolitical and political volunteering and subjective well-being (SWB; life satisfaction, emotional well-being). Moreover, we examined whether these effects differed between nonpolitical and ...

3. The German middle class in a changing world of work

This chapter discusses how labour market trends in Germany since the mid-1990s have affected workers in middle-income households. It sets off by looking at the types of jobs carried out by middle-income workers, analysing changes in occupations and sector of employment and discussing the role of rising female labour force participation. It then provides evidence on the share of middle-income workers ...

4. A spotlight on social mobility in the German middle class

This chapter examines short-term income dynamics in Germany since the mid-1990s. It first focuses on the mobility patterns of people in the middle-income group over a four-year interval, looking at trends in their risks of sliding out of the middle, and of experiencing poverty, and their opportunities of rising out towards the top. It then looks at changes in the upward mobility into the middle-income ...

Consistency of prosocial behavior and cognitive skills: Evidence from children in El Salvador

We investigate the consistency of prosocial behaviors in response to changes in the institutional setting of a lab-in-the-field experiment involving primary school students in El Salvador. Students play variants of the dictator game allowing the option to take and with relative unequal initial endowments. We exploit within-subject variation and find that children are sensitive to the enlargement of ...

The immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany: levels, socio-economic determinants, and recent changes

We present new descriptive evidence on the immigrant-native gap in risk and time preferences in Germany, one of immigrants’ most preferred destination countries. Using the recent waves of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, we find that the immigrant-native gap in risk preferences has widened for recent immigration cohorts, especially around the time of the 2015 European Refugee Crisis. We attribute ...

Development and Structure of Environmental Worries in Germany 1984–2019

Auf der Grundlage eines Einstellungsitems im sozio-ökonomischen Panel, das die individuelle Besorgtheit um den Schutz der Umwelt misst, analysiert der Beitrag die Entwicklung der Umweltsorgen in Deutschland für den Zeitraum 1984–2019. Die Analysen sind hauptsächlich deskriptiver Natur. Es wird ausgewählten Erwartungen und Annahmen nachgegangen, die zum einen in historischen Rückblicken auf die neuere ...