Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Intergenerational Effects of Education on Risky Health Behaviours and Long-Term Health

This paper estimates the causal effects of parental education on their children's risky health behaviours and health status. I study the intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling reform in Germany after World War II. Implemented across federal states at different points in time, the reform increased the minimum number of school years from eight to nine. Instrumental variable estimates ...

The Effects of Education on Health: An Intergenerational Perspective

This paper presents evidence of substantial causal effects of parental education on children's health behaviours and long-term health. We study intergenerational effects of a compulsory schooling increase in Germany after World War II, which was implemented across federal states at different points in time. Maternal schooling reduces children's smoking and overweight in adolescence. The effects ...

Life Expectancy and Parental Education

This study analyses the relationship between life expectancy and parental education. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and survival analysis models, we show that maternal education is related to children’s life expectancy – even after controlling for children’sown level of education. This applies equally to daughters and sons as well as to children’s further life expectancies ...

Paid Parental Leave and Child Development: Evidence from the 2007 German Parental Benefit Reform and Administrative Data

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings-related and only paid for up to 14 months. ...

Zeitverwendung in der DDR am Vorabend der Marktwirtschaft

Angst vor Fremdenfeindlichkeit: Ausländer überweisen mehr ins Heimatland.

In Deutschland leben etwa sieben Millionen Ausländerinnen und Ausländer. Weitere hier lebende Personen, die bei Geburt eine andere als die deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit besessen haben, sind Eingebürgerte und (Spät-)Aussiedler. Auf der Basis der Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) untersucht die vorliegende Studie die Beweggründe dieser Personengruppen, Überweisungen ins Heimatland zu tätigen. ...

Bringing Home the Money: Xenophobia and Remittances - The Case of Germany

Wiederbeschäftigungschancen von Arbeitslosen: Eine mikroökonometrische Analyse für die BRD

Strukturelle und institutionelle Determinanten der Arbeitslosigkeit aus mikroanalytischer Sicht

Spezifikation und Schätzung von zeitabhängigen Übergangsratenmodellen - methodische Aspekte und ihre Anwendung in der Arbeitsmarktforschung