Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Self-fulfilling prophecies in the classroom: Teacher expectations, teacher feedback and student achievement

This study investigated the link between teacher expectations and student learning, relying on longitudinal data from 64 classrooms and 1026 first-grade students in Germany. Further, based on a subsample of 19 classrooms with 354 students, we explored the mediating role of three characteristics of teacher feedback rated in video-recorded school lessons. The results showed that teacher expectations ...

20 Jahre Riester-Rente – Private Altersvorsorge braucht einen Neustart

Vor 20 Jahren wurde im Zuge der Rentenreform 2001 die Einführung der Riester-Rente beschlossen: Die Riester-Rente sollte ein wesentlicher Baustein des Alterssicherungssystems in Deutschland werden und das sinkende Niveau der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung mindestens ausgleichen. Daten, die im Rahmen des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels erhoben wurden, zeigen, dass dieses Ziel bisher nicht erreicht wurde. ...

20 Years of the Riester Pension—Personal Retirement Provision Requires Reform

Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been achieved. For ten years, use of the Riester pension plan has been stagnating at around 25 percent of the ...

How Negative Is Negative Information

Daily, we face a plenty of negative information that can profoundly affect our perception and behavior. During devastating events such as the current COVID-19 pandemic, negative messages may hinder reasoning at individual level and social decisions in the society at large. These effects vary across genders in neurotypical populations (being more evident in women) and may be even more pronounced in ...

Freiwilliges Engagement in Deutschland: Zentrale Ergebnisse des Fünften Deutschen Freiwilligensurveys (FWS 2019)

Freiwilliges Engagement ist in Deutschland stabil auf einem hohen Niveau. Das zeigen die zentralen Ergebnisse des Fünften Freiwilligensurveys, der das freiwillige Engagement im Jahr 2019 abbildet.

Volunteering in Germany: Key Findings of the Fifth German Survey on Volunteering (FWS 2019)

The German Survey on Volunteering (Deutscher Freiwilligensurvey, FWS) has, for two decades, provided the basis for drawing up a report on the current state of affairs and on developments affecting volunteering in Germany. This telephone-based representative study of the German population aged 14 and above has been conducted for this purpose every five years since 1999. This short report presents the ...

Die Geister, die ich nicht rief

Risk Preference Elicitation and Financial Advice Taking

Financial advisors rely on accurate measures of investor risk preferences. This study compares different risk elicitation methods (REMs) in terms of their perceived suitability and impact on financial advice taking. The results suggest that the perceived suitability of the suggested risk profile strongly predicts delegation to an advisory tool. REMs differ in terms of their perceived process similarity ...

Perceptions of Gender Wealth Inequalities within the Family

This dissertation examines the following research question: How do individuals perceive gender wealth inequalities within the family? In the three empirical studies, I tackle this question from two perspectives. On the one hand, the first study examines personal perceptions of inequality by analyzing with observational data how changes in the actual distribution of wealth within couples is related ...

Treiben Sorgen und Ängste den »populistischen Zeitgeist«?: Eine Untersuchung von Erscheinungsformen, Verbreitung und Determinanten populistischer Einstellungen