Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

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

Reichtum unter der Lupe

Forscher versuchen, das Vermögen der Wohlhabenden zu ergründen

Subjektives Wohlbefinden und Sorgen (Kap. 11.1)

Einsamkeit (Kap. 7.5)

Studying the Family-Migration-Nexus: State of Research, Knowledge Gaps, and Empirical Perspectives

This introductory chapter begins with a brief outline of key aspects of the current state of research on the family-migration-nexus, subsequently identifying key knowledge gaps. From this, we develop some more general thoughts about the kind of data are needed to fill existing research gaps, and then use the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS) as an example to describe a data set ...

Three Essays on Migration and Family Change

The global population of international migrants has grown significantly over the past several decades—from 153 million in 1990 to 272 million in 2019—while the population of international migrants as the share of the world’s total population has remained quite steady. At the same time, the political importance of migration has increased, especially in the US and Western European countries. As a result, ...

Childbearing under different family policy schemes

Objective: This study assesses whether and how changes in family policies are associated with first and second births in Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom, and whether these associations differ by women's education. Background: Family policies are expected to impact the direct and indirect costs of childbearing by providing resources that influence the monetary and non-monetary costs of ...

Migrant wealth in Germany

Migrant households in Germany hold significantly less wealth than native households, with disparities varying by origin and generation. Using SOEP data (2012, 2017), this study quantifies gaps across the wealth distribution and examines income, saving rates, and portfolio composition. Migrants from low- and middle-income countries exhibit the largest gaps, with persistent disadvantages in the upper ...

Early life-circumstances and preference formation - the case of breastfeeding duration

A growing literature suggests a remarkable heterogeneity in skills and preferences. Although these heterogeneities play an important role in the determination of life outcomes, little is known about their origins. We propose and validate the breastfeeding duration as measure of early lifecircumstances and explore its effects in the development process of risk, time and social preferences. We do so ...

Listen to her: Gender differences in information diffusion within the household

We study how economic information diffuses within the household, leveraging an information-provision experiment with a representative sample of households from Germany. A random sample of household members received information about their household’s position in the income distribution. When provided with information directly, there are no gender differences in how individuals update their beliefs. ...