Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Short- and medium-term effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health

In this paper, we present estimates of the effect of informal care provision on female caregivers’ health. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and assess effects up to seven years after care provision. The results suggest that there is a considerable negative short-term effect of informal care provision on mental health which fades out over time. Five years after care provision the effect ...

Informal care and long-term labor market outcomes

In this paper we estimate long-run effects of informal care provision on female caregivers’ labor market outcomes up to eight years after care provision. We compare a static version, where average effects of care provision in a certain year on later labor market outcomes are estimated, to a partly dynamic version where the effects of up to three consecutive years of care provision are analyzed. Our ...

In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice

This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers’ decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies to express ...

Keeping It Steady: Older Adults Perform More Consistently on Cognitive Tasks Than Younger Adults

People often attribute poor performance to having bad days. Given that cognitive aging leads to lower average levels of performance and more moment-to-moment variability, one might expect that older adults should show greater day-to-day variability and be more likely to experience bad days than younger adults. However, both researchers and ordinary people typically sample only one performance per day ...

38 Latente Wachstumskurvenmodelle

Werden in sozialwissenschaftlichen Studien Veränderungsprozesse untersucht, zum Beispiel in der Entwicklungspsychologie, den Erziehungswissenschaften oder in der Soziologie des Lebenslaufes, so interessiert man sich in der Regel sowohl für allgemeine, mittlere Veränderungsverläufe als auch für interindividuelle Unterschiede beziehungsweise Abweichungen von den mittleren Veränderungen, sowie für Ursachen ...

Einkommensverteilung, Armut und wohlfahrtstaatliche Umverteilung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland der 80er Jahre. Eine empirische Untersuchung auf Basis des SOEP-Samples des PSID-GSOEP Equivalent Data File 1983-1990 (Diplomarbeit)

Alleinlebende im Lebensverlauf - Eine altersspezifische Betrachtung (Diplomarbeit)

Frau Doktor steckt in der Lohnfalle

Kinderlose Männer in Deutschland - eine sozialstrukturelle Bestimmung auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP)

Informelle soziale Beziehungen (Kap. III.8)