Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Weniger Schleim in der Nase

Guter Nachbar ist machbar

Eine freundliche Nachbarschaft erhält gesund, eine schlechte kann regelrecht krank machen. Forscher ergründen, weshalb die Leute von nebenan uns so nahe gehen.

Ein Fünftel der Deutschen ist von Armut bedroht. Nach welchen Kriterien eigentlich? Armes Deutschland?

Exportweltmeister, Wohlstandsgesellschaft und historisch niedrige Arbeitslosenquote – Deutschland geht es gut. Trotzdem zeigen Statistiken: Hierzulande gibt es auch Armut. Was hat es damit wirklich auf sich?

The empirical content of marital surplus in matching models

This note investigates the extent to which structural estimates of marital surplus are informative about subjective well-being and separation. We first estimate the marital surplus using a simple matching model of the marriage market with perfectly transferable utility and heterogeneity in tastes applied to a rich German panel dataset. We then show that these estimates of the marital surplus are negatively ...

Labour Supply after Inheritances and the Role of Expectations

This paper examines the effect of wealth on labour market behaviour. Providing convincing evidence on this relationship is challenging since wealth and labour supply may be endogenously determined. We overcome this by looking at wealth shocks in the form of inheritances, distinguishing between unanticipated and anticipated inheritances. We provide a theoretical framework which outlines how an individual's ...

Cross-National Differences in Wealth Portfolios at the Intensive Margin: Is There a Role for Policy?

Using harmonized wealth data and a novel decomposition approach in this literature, we show that cohort effects exist in the income profiles of asset and debt portfolios for a sample of European countries, the U.S. and Canada. We find that the association between household wealth portfolios at the intensive margin (the level of assets) and household characteristics is different from that found at the ...

Income-related inequalities in health: some international comparisons

This paper presents evidence on income-related inequalities in self-assessed health in nine industrialized countries. Health interview survey data were used to construct concentration curves of self-assessed health, measured as a latent variable. Inequalities in health favoured the higher income groups and were statistically significant in all countries. Inequalities were particularly high in the United ...

Population- and Individual-Level Changes in Life Satisfaction Surrounding Major Life Stressors

How do stressful life events impact well-being, and how does their impact differ from person to person? In contrast to work focusing on discrete classes of responding, the current study examines the adequacy of a model where responses to stressors are characterized by a population average and continuous variability around that average. Using decades of yearly data from a large German longitudinal study ...

Einkommen: Armut verändert den Freundeskreis - Weitreichende Folgen für soziale Beziehungen.

Old-age Security of Women in the Twelve EC-Countries - To what Extent Are Beveridge's Two Main Principles of Universality and Guaranteed Minimum Income Fulfilled?