Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Zusammenhalt in Corona-Zeiten: Familien nicht mit der Gießkanne fördern

Die Familie hat als Bildungsort auch in der Pandemie sehr gut funktioniert. Eine flächendeckende Förderung von Familien erscheint aber nicht angebracht. Das knappe Geld muss zielgerichtet eingesetzt werden.

Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher 2021

Selbständige Frauen leiden besonders unter der Krise

Ob Friseurgeschäft oder Café: Frauen betreiben häufig Geschäfte, die in der Krise gelitten haben. Das macht sich jetzt bemerkbar, zeigt eine Studie.

Do You Really Want to Share Everything? The Wellbeing of Work-Linked Couples

Work as well as family life are crucial sources of human wellbeing, which however often interfere. This is especially so if partners work in the same occupation or industry. At the same time, being work-linked may benefit their career success. Still, surprisingly little is known about the wellbeing of work-linked couples. Our study fills this gap by examining the satisfaction differences between work-linked ...

The Intermarriage Life Satisfaction Premium

Research on the consequences of intermarriage is almost exclusively looking at immigrants’ labour market outcomes, with little attention given to non-economic indicators. Drawing from set-point theory and taking on a dynamic approach, the authors examine whether having a different- versus a same-origin partner is subject to a selection on life satisfaction, or associated with a greater short-term improvement ...

“In Good Times and in Bad, in Sickness and in Health”: A Longitudinal Analysis on Spousal Caregiving and Life Satisfaction

Previous research on informal spousal caregiving has documented a reduced life satisfaction among caregivers, but it has rarely considered the dynamics over time, the mechanisms that drive these effects, and different types of transitions out of caregiving. This study aims to fill this gap by focusing on spousal caregivers’ life satisfaction before, during, and after episodes of caregiving. We apply ...

Black-Swan Wage Premiums? Evidence from Expectile Regression

We estimate wage premiums (male, union member and public sector) in West Germany using post penalized expectile regression. The estimation relies on data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2010-2017. We use a double robust LASSO as penalization technique, which allows us to deal with potential omitted variable bias and to conduct expectile-specific model selection. In addition, we enrich our study ...

Effect of personality traits on smallholders’ land renting behavior: Theory and evidence from the North China Plain

This study investigates the effect of smallholders’ personality traits on their land rental market decisions. We develop a conceptual framework and show that these internal factors could affect smallholders’ land rental market participation beyond institutional and socio-demographic factors. Our empirical analysis is based on a survey of 2119 rural households collected in the North China Plain. We ...

Regular participation in leisure time activities and high cardiovascular fitness improve motor sequence learning in older adults

Introduction: Older adults show higher interindividual performance variability during the learning of new motor sequences than younger adults. It is largely unknown what factors contribute to this variability. This study aimed to, first, characterize age differences in motor sequence learning and, second, examine influencing factors for interindividual performance differences. Method: 30 young adults ...

Task specialization and the Native-Foreign Wage Gap

This study documents that worker-level variation in tasks has played a key role in the widening of the German Native-Foreign Wage Gap. I find idiosyncratic differences account for up to 34 per cent of the wage gap. Importantly, natives specialize in high-paying interactive activities not only between, but also within occupations. In contrast, foreign workers specialize in low-paying manual activities. ...