Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Marriage, adaptation and happiness: Are there long-lasting gains to marriage?

This paper uses 23 waves of German panel data and investigates if individuals who decide to marry become permanently happier. Following the same persons over several years we show that they do, thereby challenging a number of recent longitudinal studies in psychology and economics which suggest that individuals fully adapt to the positive impact of marriage. Further, we compare different empirical ...

Executive Seminar. Poverty and Income Security Among Older Persons. Overview of Proceedings

Health Effects of Instruction Intensity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in German High-Schools

A large literature aims to establish a causal link between education and health using changes in compulsory schooling laws. It is however unclear how well more education is operationalized by marginal increases in school years. We shed a new light on this discussion by analyzing the health effects of a reform in Germany where total years of schooling for students in the academic track were reduced ...

The Role of Firm Pensions for Job Change in Germany

Occupational Pensions, Wages, and Job Mobility in Germany

Angst und Ärger: Zur Relevanz emotionaler Dimensionen sozialer Ungleichheit (Anxiety and Anger. On the Emotional Dimensions of Social Inequality)

Soziologische Theorien postulieren seit langem Zusammenhänge zwischen sozialer Ungleichheit und dem Empfinden von Emotionen. Der Vielfalt theoretischer Arbeiten steht jedoch ein Mangel an empirischen Studien gegenüber, insbesondere mit Blick auf die präzise Erfassung von Emotionen. Aus diesem Grund prüfen wir empirisch die Zusammenhänge zwischen Indikatoren sozialer Ungleichheit und der Häufigkeit ...

Die Männer sind schuld

Scholz schönt Armutsbericht

Fehlerhafte Statistik. Kinderarmut nur halb so hoch wie gedacht

Economic Consequences of Family Break-Ups Income Before and After Family Break-Ups of Women in Germany and the United States

This paper analyzes the economic consequences of family break-ups on women’s household income using fixed effects panel regression on German (SOEP) and US American (PSID) panel data. Since Germany and the United States are two examples of opposing social models, reflected in their policy framework regarding family break-ups, country differences in the economic consequences are assumed. The cross-national ...