Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Maternal Education, Divorce, and Changes in Economic Resources: Evidence from Germany

This study investigated the effects of divorce on educational gaps in mothers’ economic resources. The results shed new light on two opposing theoretical positions that have informed research on social inequality in the consequences of divorce. Recent extensions of the “diverging destinies” perspective posit that divorce is more consequential among the disadvantaged than among the privileged. The notion ...

Education and Health across Lives and Cohorts: A Study of Cumulative (Dis)Advantage and Its Rising Importance in Germany

Research from the United States has supported two hypotheses. First, educational gaps in health widen with age—the cumulative (dis)advantage hypothesis. Second, this relationship has intensified across cohorts—the rising importance hypothesis. In this article, we used 23 waves of panel data (Socio-Economic Panel Study, 1992–2014) to examine both hypotheses in the German context. We considered individual ...

Do Immigrants Suffer More from Job Loss? Unemployment and Subjective Well-Being in Germany

This study asks whether immigrants suffer more from unemployment than German natives. Differences between these groups in pre-unemployment characteristics, the type of the transition into unemployment, and the consequences of this transition suggest that factors intensifying the negative impact of unemployment on subjective well-being are more concentrated in immigrants than in natives. Based on longitudinal ...

Erbschaften und Schenkungen im Lebenslauf. Eine vergleichende Längsschnittanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (Diplomarbeit)

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 ...