Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Unverdrossene "Lebenslügen-Politik" - Zur Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung

Erste Reue über Verteilungssünden? - Zur Einkommensentwicklung 2006

Anhaltende Verteilungsdramatik - WSI-Verteilungsbericht 2008

Den bis vor Kurzem andauernden Aufschwung verbuchte die Politik als ihren Erfolg – ungeachtet des maßgeblichen Anteils, den jenseits nationaler Steuerung der florierende Weltmarkt am Wirtschafts- und Beschäftigungswachstum hatte.Und sie verschloss gänzlich die Augen davor, dass es ihr trotz einer wirtschaftlichen Prosperitätsphase nicht gelungen ist, den seit Jahren zu beobachtenden Trend zunehmender ...

Soziale Polarisierung in Deutschland - ein Mythos?

Zur subjektiven Lebenszufriedenheit der Deutschen im Kontext von tagesspezifischen und regionalen Einflussfaktoren

Die Arbeit analysiert die These, dass subjektive Einschätzungen der kognitiv-bilanzierenden Lebenszufriedenheit kaum valide Informationen über die tatsächliche Lebensqualität der Befragungspersonen liefern, da subjektive Einschätzungen durch kurzfristig wirksame Kontextereignisse und die affektive Stimmungslage zum Befragungszeitpunkt verzerrt werden können. Dieser These folgend wird anhand des für ...

Personality Has Minor Effects on Panel Attrition

In light of the recent interest in using longitudinal panel data to study personality development, it is important to know if personality traits are related to panel attrition. We analyse the effects of personality on panel drop-out separately for an ‘older’ subsample (started in 1984), a relatively ‘young’ subsample (started in 2000), and a ‘new’ subsample (started in 2009) of the German Socio-Economic ...

Long-term effects of pregnancy and childbirth on sleep satisfaction and duration of first-time and experienced mothers and fathers

To examine the changes in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across prepregnancy, pregnancy, and the postpartum period of up to 6 years after birth; it also sought to determine potential protective and risk factors for sleep during that time. Participants in a large population-representative panel study from Germany reported sleep satisfaction and sleep duration in yearly interviews. ...

Growing up with a single mother and life satisfaction in adulthood: A test of mediating and moderating factors

Single parenthood is increasingly common in Western societies but only little is known about its long-term effects. We therefore studied life satisfaction among 641 individuals (ages 18–66 years) who spent their entire childhood with a single mother, 1539 individuals who spent part of their childhood with both parents but then experienced parental separation, and 21,943 individuals who grew up with ...

Age Differences in Intertemporal Choice: U-Shaped Associations in a Probability Sample of German Households

To describe adult age differences in intertemporal choice, we analyzed data from 1,491 participants who completed an incentivized monetary intertemporal discounting choice task involving different conditions (e.g., time delay of 12 months vs. 1 month). Respondents completed a number of other survey measures, including behavioral measures of cognitive ability, and self-reports concerning health, financial ...

Validation of the German version of the late adolescence and young adulthood survivorship-related quality of life measure (LAYA-SRQL)

Cancer has adverse effects on patient’s quality of life. As such, measuring quality of life (QoL) has become an integral part of psycho-oncological health care. Because adolescent and young adult patients have different needs in contrast to children and older cancer patients, instruments for adequately measuring QoL of cancer survivors in this age range are essential. As there is not a corresponding ...