Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS)

Determinants of public perception of elite sport

Elite sports are associated with values such as fair competition, striving to become better and challenging oneself. These are considered as social benefits. However, integrity issues relating to misuse of doping or corruption challenge this. This paper examines the determinants of public perception of elite sport by means of a survey. Logistic regression modelling assesses the effects of trust, athletes ...

Does the Dream of Home Ownership Rest upon Biased Beliefs? A Test Based on Predicted and Realized Life Satisfaction

The belief that home ownership makes people happy is probably one of the most widespread intuitive theories of happiness. However, whether it is accurate is an open question. Based on individual panel data, we explore whether home buyers systematically overestimate the life satisfaction associated with moving to their privately owned property. To identify potential prediction errors, we compare people’s ...

Longitudinal Evidence for Reciprocal Effects Between Life Satisfaction and Job Satisfaction

The evidence for a correlation between life satisfaction and job satisfaction is strong; however, it is mostly based on cross-sectional results, which precludes establishing valid causal links between work and well-being. Limited longitudinal research suffers from relatively small sample sizes, narrow focus on a particular professional or national group, and differences in the lags between the waves ...

Changes in optimism and pessimism in response to life events: Evidence from three large panel studies

Although individuals vary in how optimistic they are about the future, one assumption that researchers make is that optimism is sensitive to changes in life events and circumstances. We examined how optimism and pessimism changed across the lifespan and in response to life events in three large panel studies (combined N = 74,886). In the American and Dutch samples, we found that optimism increased ...

A Novel Sampling Strategy for Surveying High Net-Worth Individuals: A Pretest Using the Socio-Economic Panel

High-wealth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of comprehensive national registers on high-wealth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to remedy this under-representation. In a novel research design, we draw on public data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our design builds on the empirical ...

Vor dem Covid-19-Virus sind nicht alle Erwerbstätigen gleich

Die Corona-Pandemie und die politischen Entscheidungen zu ihrer Eindämmung verändern derzeit die Situation vieler Erwerbstätiger in Deutschland. Viele abhängig Beschäftigte arbeiten im Homeoffice, befinden sich in Kurzarbeit, fürchten um ihren Job oder haben diesen bereits verloren. Selbständige verzeichnen Umsatz- und Gewinneinbußen und sehen sich in ihrer wirtschaftlichen Existenz bedroht. Erwerbstätige ...

Exploring the Robustness of Country Rankings by Educational Attainment

The measurement scale of exam scores is ordinal. This ordinal measurement implies that monotonic transformations of published scales convey the same information. Hence, countries should not be ranked according to averaged scores because there may be transformations that would change the mean-based rankings. We suggest alternatives to the mean-based ranking procedure that yield informative and robust ...

Bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen: viel Zustimmung, aber auch große Ablehnung

Das bedingungslose Grundeinkommen wird schon seit vielen Jahren diskutiert. Es soll Probleme lösen, die durch den demografischen Wandel, die Digitalisierung und Automation entstehen können. Dabei sind in Hinblick auf die Details ganz unterschiedliche Konzepte Grundlage für die Diskussion. So ist nicht geklärt, welche Höhe ein solches Grundeinkommen haben sollte, welche Sozialleistungen dadurch ersetzt ...

Befristetes Grundeinkommen in Entwicklungsländern: Wenn nicht jetzt, wann dann? (Kommentar)