Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Paternal involvement elevates trajectories of life satisfaction during transition to parenthood

This study explored the role of fathers' involvement for life satisfaction changes among 598 cohabitating couples before and after childbirth using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP). We included longitudinal data and reports from both parents on their time spent on housework and childcare and their life satisfaction. Piecewise latent growth models showed that fathers' relative ...

Einmal zufrieden, immer zufrieden?

Locus of control and unemployment duration: a survival analysis

Happy Taxpayers? Income Taxation and Well-Being

This paper offers a first empirical investigation of how labor taxation (income and payroll taxes) affects individuals' well-being. For identification, we exploit exogenous variation in tax rules over time and across demographic groups using 26 years of German panel data. We find that the tax effect on subjective well-being is significant and positive when controlling for income net of taxes. ...

Leben in Armut. Analysen der Verhaltensweisen armer Haushalte mit Umfragedaten. Endbericht des DFG-Projektes "Versorgungsstrategien privater Haushalte im unteren Einkommensbereich (VuE)"

Sampling migrants in six European countries: how to develop a comparative design?

This article discusses the possibilities and constraints of designing an identical or at least comparable sampling strategy across different European countries. It is based on expert reviews from six European Union member states that discuss the possibilities of sampling migrants in their respective countries. The country sample includes two countries from Northern Europe (Sweden, Denmark), two from ...

Applied Panel Data Analysis for Economic and Social Surveys

Many economic and social surveys are designed as panel studies, which provide important data for describing social changes and testing causal relations between social phenomena. This textbook shows how to manage, describe, and model these kinds of data. It presents models for continuous and categorical dependent variables, focusing either on the level of these variables at different points in time ...

Scheidung als Armutsrisiko

Armut, Konsum und Lebensstandard

Armut und Lebensstandard. Zur Entwicklung des notwendigen Lebensstandards der Bevölkerung. Gutachten im Rahmen des 2. Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts der Bundesregierung

Das Forschungsprojekt untersucht die Entwicklung und Zusammenhänge von Lebensstandard und Deprivation für den Zeitraum von 1996 bis 2003. Dabei wird zur Abgrenzung von Armut nicht nur das Einkommen zugrunde gelegt, sondern auch die Einkommensverwendung betrachtet und der Frage nachgegangen, wie Einkommen und Realisierung von Lebensstandard korrelieren. Es wird insbesondere untersucht, aus welchen Gründen ...