Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Income Inequality and Life Satisfaction: Unrelated Between Countries, Associated Within Countries Over Time

This article shows for the first time that people are less satisfied when inequality in their country is higher than before, but not when inequality in their country is higher than in another country. It distinguishes this between- and within-country effect of inequality on life satisfaction by using hybrid regressions with the World Values Survey, the British Household Panel Study, the Australian ...

Experimental Evidence of the Effect of Monetary Incentives on Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Response: Experiences from the Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP)

The paper gives an overview of two experiments implemented in the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP) considering the effect of monetary incentives on cross‐sectional and longitudinal response propensities. We conclude that the overall effects of monetary incentives on response rates are positive compared to the "classic" SOEP setting, where a charity lottery ticket is offered as an incentive. ...

“Familien in Deutschland” - FiD

There are various independent studies evaluating family policy measures in Germany. So far, a systematic evaluation considering the different goals inherent to these measures was missing. The evaluation of family policy measures on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) is thus the first systematic overall ...

Geplante Kinderlosigkeit? Ein lebensverlaufstheoretisches Entscheidungsmodell

Das leere Nest

Wenn das letzte Kind das Heim verlässt, bricht für die Eltern oft eine schwere Zeit an.

Plötzliche Leere

Wenn das Kind das Nest verlässt, brechen für Eltern schwere Zeiten an.

Lebenszufriedenheit von Migranten - Eine empirische Studie auf Basis des SOEP

Vorstudie für eine Repräsentativbefragung zur Teilhabe von Menschen mit Behinderung(en)

Brief Report: Short forms of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS) with the domains of job, romantic relationship, and region

The U-MICS is a self-report questionnaire designed to assess the identity dimensions from a domain-specific perspective. The present study reports on the development of a short-form version for the domains of job and romantic relationship in young adults from Germany and extends this scale to include the domain of region (nSample1 = 95, 84% female, mean age 22.45 years; nSample2 = 1,795, 71% female, ...

Settlement Structures and Carbon Emissions in Germany: The Effects of Social and Physical Concentration on Carbon Emissions in Rural and Urban Residential Areas

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we show that nearly 50% of all carbon emissions caused by private transportation and building operations in Germany can be explained by structural determinants that go hand in hand with infrastructural peculiarities in rural and urban residential areas. Taking the theoretical background of building physics, allometry and increasing returns to ...