Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Segregation in Early Childhood Education and Care in Germany: Insights on Regional Distribution Patterns Using National Educational Studies

An frühkindliche Bildung und Betreuung wird die Erwartung herangetragen, zum Abbau von Bildungsungleichheit beizutragen und Inklusion zu fördern. Segregation in Kindertageseinrichtungen (Kitas) wirkt diesen Zielen grundsätzlich entgegen. Bislang gibt es aber für Deutschland nur wenig empirische Erkenntnisse über das Ausmaß und mögliche Ursachen von entsprechenden Entmischungsprozessen. Die vorliegende ...

Growing Potentials for Migration Research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study

This article highlights the potentials for migration research using the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a longitudinal panel dataset of private households in Germany running since 1984. We provide a concise overview of its basic features, describe the survey contents and research potentials, and demonstrate opportunities to link external data sources to the SOEP thereby presenting its diverse ...

Low Homeownership in Germany—a Quantitative Exploration

The homeownership rate in Germany is one of the lowest among advanced economies. To better understand this fact, we evaluate the role of specific housing policies that tend to discourage homeownership. In comparison to other countries with higher homeownership such as the United States, Germany has an extensive social housing sector with broad eligibility criteria, high transfer taxes when buying real ...

Marital Dissolution and Personal Wealth: Examining Gendered Trends across the Dissolution Process

Objective: This study examined potentially gendered net worth changes over the marital dissolution process, starting up to 3 years prior to separation and continuing up to 15 years postdivorce. Background: Incipient literature showed steep wealth declines for men and women associated with divorce, treating marital dissolution as a single point-in-time event. These findings may be limiting as legal ...

Geringere Chancen auf ein gesundes Leben für LGBTQI*-Menschen

Die psychische und auch die körperliche Gesundheit von LGBTQI*-Menschen sind deutlich stärker beeinträchtigt als die der restlichen Bevölkerung. Befragungsdaten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Universität Bielefeld zeigen, dass LGBTQI*-Menschen drei- bis viermal so häufig von psychischen Erkrankungen betroffen sind. Auch potentiell stressbedingte körperliche Krankheiten wie Herzkrankheiten, ...

LGBTQI* People in Germany Face Staggering Health Disparities

Discrimination and rejection experienced by LGBTQI* people affect their mental health and, in the long term, their physical health as well. Survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University show that LGBTQI* people in Germany are affected by negative mental health outcomes three to four times more often than the rest of the population. Poor physical health that may be stress-related, ...

Wir brauchen eine deutliche Stärkung der queeren Antidiskriminierungspolitik: Interview

Auswirkungen von Referenzzeiträumen auf die Selbstangaben zum freiwilligen Engagement: Ergebnisse einer experimentellen Studie

In der vorliegenden Studie wird untersucht, inwiefern sich der Einsatz eines spezifischen Zeitfensters bei Survey-Abfragen zum ehrenamtlichen und freiwilligen Engagement – im Vergleich zu Survey-Abfragen mit unspezifischen Zeitfenstern – auf die Selbstangaben von Befragten auswirkt. Die Grundlage der Untersuchung bildet ein Experiment, welches zu diesem Zweck im Rahmen des SOEP-Innovationssamples (SOEP-IS) ...

Refined Reverse Correlation: A Technique for Investigating the Power of Faces

People effortlessly and rapidly form a first impression of an individual’s personality based on their facial appearance. Forming an impression based on facial cues can have real world implications, for example, for the outcome of elections, courtroom decisions or work-place interviews. Research using traditional methods has, however, failed to identify the facial features that are related to specific ...

Identifying Stabilising Effects on Survey Based Life Satisfaction Using Quasi-maximum Likelihood Estimation

To which extent do happiness correlates contribute to the stability of life satisfaction? Which method is appropriate to provide a conclusive answer to this question? Based on life satisfaction data of the German SOEP, we show that by Negative Binomial quasi-maximum likelihood estimation statements can be made as to how far correlates of happiness contribute to the stabilisation of life satisfaction. ...