Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Digital Family Access and Depressive Tendency in Rural Children: Digital Usages as A Mediator

Given the the digital era, mental health of rural children is of particular concern. Taking a total of 314 rural children in Linquan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province, as survey respondents, and using a combination of descriptive statistics, correlation and regression analysis, this study aimed to explore the effects of digital family access on rural children's depressive tendency, and to analyse ...

Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations: Prevalence, stability, and convergence over time

Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations may negatively affect child development. We examine 1) the prevalence of mismatching aspirations across school grades 3–9 (ages 8–15), 2) their stability over time, and 3) whether mismatching aspirations converge to parents’ or to children’s aspirations. This study uses data from two German National Educational Panel Study cohorts (“kindergarten”: ...

Does the impact of pupil absences on achievement depend on their timing

Using linked data from the Millennium Cohort Study and National Pupil Database (N = 8,139), this study examined how the timing of school absences (years 1 to 11 between 2006 and 2017) affects achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in England. Absences during any school year are harmful to student achievement. However, absences in years 6 (final primary school year) to 10 (penultimate year of ...

The long-term consequences of early school absences for educational attainment and labour market outcomes

Abstract School absences can negatively impact a child's schooling, including the loss of teacher-led lessons, peer interactions, and, ultimately, academic achievement. However, little is known about the long-term consequences of school absences for overall educational attainment and labour market outcomes. In this paper, we used data from the 1970 British Cohort Study to examine long-term associations ...

The keys to the house: How wealth transfers stratify homeownership opportunities

This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers (i.e., inter-vivo gifts and inheritances) contribute to social stratification in the transition to homeownership. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N=13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers are less likely to ...

Cross-national Differences in Socioeconomic Achievement Inequality in Early Primary School: The Role of Parental Education and Income in Six Countries

This paper presents comparative information on the strength of the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and literacy skills at ages 6–8, drawing on data from France, Germany, Japan, Rotterdam (Netherlands), the United Kingdom, and the United States. We investigate whether the strength of the association between SES and literacy skills in early-to-mid childhood depends on the operationalization ...

Quo vadis, Wochenberichtsplan?

Ökonomin über das Erben zwischen Ost und West: „Die Ungleichheit hält sich hartnäckig“ (Interview mit Charlotte Bartels)

Die Ökonomin Charlotte Bartels erforscht die Ungleichheit in Deutschland, die nicht abnimmt, sondern andauert. Und das nicht nur zwischen Ost und West.

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der Agenda 2010 und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitslosigkeit in Deutschland (Dissertation)

Geldstapel bis nach Chicago

Private Haushalte in Deutschland verfügen gerade über so viel Geld wie noch nie. Allerdings ist dieses Vermögen sehr ungleich verteilt. Wissenswertes über den Reichtum und die Armut im Land