Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Illness and Health Satisfaction: The Role of Relative Comparisons

This paper investigates the role of relative comparisons in health status for individual health satisfaction. Previous research stresses the importance of interdependencies in subjective well-being and health arising from positional preferences and status effects, social health norms, and comparison processes. Using representative longitudinal data from a German population survey, we estimate empirical ...

Leave the Drama on the Stage: The Effect of Cultural Participation on Health

The aim of this study is to estimate the causal effect of cultural participation on health status. Cultural activities may directly impact upon health through palliative coping or substituting health-compromising behaviors. Cultural engagement may also facilitate the development of social networks, which can improve health via social support and the dissemination of social health norms. Previous estimates ...

Caring Alone? Social Capital and the Mental Health of Caregivers

This study analyzes the role of social capital in buffering the negative relationship between informal-care provision and mental health. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and fixed-effect regression models, we show that those individuals who socialize more frequently enjoy better mental health. We also find that stronger social ties moderate the negative association between caregiving ...

The Social Context of Health (Dissertation)

This thesis presents three empirical essays on the wider social determinants of health status. It analyzes the relevance of cultural, social and psychological determinants of health and their implications for health policy in Germany. These factors reflect the dependence of health status and subjective health assessment on the individual’s social environment. The empirical analyses rely on large-scale ...

Die Wettkampfteilnahme 17-jähriger Jugendlicher: Demografie oder Zustrom?

Mit Hilfe von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), von Bevölkerungsdaten sowie DOSB-Bestandserhebungen werden die Teilnehmerzahlen von 17-Jährigen an Wettkämpfen für die Jahre 2000 bis 2012 nachgezeichnet und die Entwicklung bis 2020 prognostiziert. Entgegen modernisierungstheoretischen Annahmen und verbreiteten Auffassungen finden sich kein Rückgang des Zustroms zu Wettkämpfen und kein Bedeutungsverlust ...

Kommerzieller Sport

Ehrenamtsmanagement: Mehr Engagement oder Verdrängungseffekte? Eine haushaltstheoretische Evaluationsstudie mit Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels

Ehrenamtliches Engagement wird vor allem in Non-Profit-Organisationen zu einer kritischen Ressource, Ehrenamtsmanagement dort zu einem zentralen Bestandteil von Führung und Personalmanagement. Ehrenamtsmanagement soll die Summe der von ehrenamtlich Engagierten erbrachten Leistungen und das Matching zwischen Engagementbereiten und nachfragenden Organisationen erhöhen. Um zu ermitteln, ob dies gelungen ...

A life-span perspective on life satisfaction

The German population is ageing due to decreasing birth rates and increasing life expectancy. To sustain the German pension system, legal retirement age is increased step by step to 67 years. This raises questions about how to enable and motivate older individuals to work that long. Hence, it is important to understand whether they represent a homogeneous group that can be addressed through specific ...

Status und Gefühl: Forscher untersuchen, wie Angst und Ärger in unserer Gesellschaft zur sozialen Ungleichheit beitragen

Welche deutschen Männer heiraten Frauen aus armen Ländern? (Interview mit David Glowski)