Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Emigrants’ missing votes

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties in Poland that have experienced ...

Corona und psychische Erkrankungen: Corona-Pandemie schlägt vor allem Ärmeren auf die Psyche

Der zweite Lockdown hat viele Menschen seelisch belastet. Besonders betroffen waren Frauen, Migranten und Jüngere, zeigen neue Daten, die ZEIT ONLINE exklusiv vorliegen.

The Happy Migrant? Emigration and its Impact on Subjective Well-Being (Chapter 11)

The chapter asks about possible causal effects of migration on subjective well-being (SWB) measured by self-reported overall life satisfaction. By combining the emigration sample of the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) with a quasi-counterfactual sample of internationally non-mobile Germans provided by the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) the difference-in-difference analyses ...

Fehlende Selbstkontrolle und geringe finanzielle Bildung als Ursachen von Konsumschulden

Aktuell machen sich 40 Prozent der Menschen in Deutschland Sorgen um ihre eigene wirtschaftliche Situation. In ernsten finanziellen Schieflagen ist bislang aber nur eine Minderheit. Im Jahr 2020 galten 6,85 Millionen Personen in Deutschland als überschuldet, konnten ihren Zahlungsverpflichtungen also über längere Zeit nicht nachkommen. Diese Zahl weicht nicht signifikant von den Vorjahren ab. Dabei ...

Age Differences in Deliberate Ignorance

People sometimes choose to remain ignorant, even when information comes at low marginal costs and promises high utility. To investigate whether older adults enlist deliberate ignorance more than younger adults, potentially as an emotion-regulation tool, we presented a representative sample of 1,910 residents of Germany with 13 scenarios in which knowledge could result in substantial gains or losses. ...

Educational Assimilation of First-Generation and Second-Generation Immigrants in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for 1984–2018, we analyze the intergenerational education mobility of immigrants in Germany by identifying the determinants of differences in educational stocks for first- and second-generation immigrants in comparison to individuals without a migration background. Our results show that on average, first-generation immigrants have fewer years of schooling ...

The Effect of Self-Control and Financial Literacy on Impulse Borrowing: Experimental Evidence

This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on impulsive borrowing in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no significant average effects, but find that treated individuals that have low financial literacy are more likely ...

Understanding Refugee Worries in the Integration Process

This article presents policy related results of a data analysis conducted to understand the nature of refugee worries (concerns) during the integration process in Germany. Data comes from the German Socio-Economic Panel study (SOEP), which has a specific data subset collected from refugee population living in Germany. “Uncertainty” is the key concept that explains worry structure of refugees, indicating ...

Heterogene Lebenserwartung: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag des Sozialverbands VdK Deutschland

Interaktiv: Arbeiter und Migranten wählen links, Spitzenverdiener rechts? Von wegen

Vor 30 Jahren fühlten sich Arbeiter, Migranten oder Stadtbewohner noch mit ganz anderen Parteien verbunden als heute. Auch die Unterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen werden immer grösser.