Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Gender Differences in the Consequences of Divorce: A Multiple-Outcome Comparison of Former Spouses

This study examined gender differences in the consequences of divorce for multiple measures of psychological, economic, and domestic well-being. I used household panel data from the German SOEP, retaining the link between initially married couples (N = 755) to compare both spouses over a period of up to four years before and after divorce. Findings showed that men were more vulnerable to short-term ...

Diverging Trends in Satisfaction With Housework: Declines in Women, Increases in Men

Objective This study provides the first assessment of changes in women's and men's satisfaction with housework. Background The gender gap in housework time has narrowed, but it remains unknown how subjective evaluations of housework have changed across the “gender revolution” in market and domestic spheres. Method This study used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. A probability ...

How Far Do Children Move? Spatial Distances After Leaving the Parental Home

Little is known about how far young adults move when they leave their parental home initially. We addressed this question using data from ten waves (2000 – 2009) of the German Socioeconomic Panel Study on spatial distances calculated by the geo-coordinates of residential moves (N = 1,425). Linear regression models predicted young adults' moving distance by factors at the individual, family, household, ...

Is Divorce More Painful When Couples Have Children? Evidence From Long-Term Panel Data on Multiple Domains of Well-Being

Theoretical models of the divorce process suggest that marital breakup is more painful in the presence of children. Yet, little is known about the role of children as a moderator of divorce effects on adult well-being. The present study addressed this gap of research based on long-term panel data from Germany (SOEP). Following individuals over several years before and after divorce, we used random-effects ...

Parents' Death and Adult Well-being: Gender, Age, and Adaptation to Filial Bereavement

The authors investigated how filial bereavement affects the subjective well-being of adult children. They used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study to examine temporal profiles of life satisfaction in 2,760 adult children ages 17–70 who moved through the stages of anticipation of, reaction to, and adaptation to a parent's death. Fixed effects models covering up to 11 yearly measurements ...

Schenkungen und Erbschaften im Lebenslauf. Vergleichende Längsschnittanalysen zu intergenerationalen Transfers

Gifts as intergenerational transfers inter vivos allow us to study the importance of life course events for the chances of receiving transfers. In Germany, gifts are highly private and leave more scope for decision-making than regulated bequests. Thus, gifts are better suited to test theories of family solidarity and transfer behavior. Our analysis focuses on larger transfers from parents and grandparents ...

Family Events and the Timing of Intergenerational Transfers

This research investigates how family events in adult children’s lives influence the timing of their parents’ financial transfers. We draw on retrospective data collected by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and use event history models to study the effects of marriage, divorce and childbirth on the receipt of large gifts from parents. We find increased chances of receiving real estate at marriage ...

Intergenerational Transmission: Gifts, Bequests, and Social Inequality in West Germany

We compare large inter vivos transfers to bequests using retrospectively surveyed event history data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study (SOEP). We find the chances of receiving gifts and bequests to depend strongly on the socio-economic position of the parents and on the number of siblings. The same is true for the amount of bequests, but not for the amount of gifts. For women, both the chances ...

Intergenerationale Vermögenstransfers und soziale Ungleichheit: Schenkungen und Erbschaften in Westdeutschland

Health and Housework in Later Life: A Longitudinal Study of Retired Couples

Objectives: To examine how changes in wives’ and husbands’ health influenced housework time and domestic outsourcing in retired couples. Method: We estimated fixed-effects models to test hypotheses about the gendered influence of health declines on absolute and relative measures of time spent on routine and nonroutine housework as well as the probability of outsourcing housework. The data were obtained ...