Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Towards a psychology of solar energy: Analyzing the effects of the Big Five personality traits on household solar energy adoption in Germany

This research paper investigated the effect of consumers’ Big Five personality traits on the adoption of residential photovoltaic systems in Germany. To account for different types or groups of households, a multigroup structural equation model with N = 9,281 individuals was analyzed using data from a nationwide, representative household panel. It could be shown that the ways in which personality traits ...

Can Subjective Data Improve the Measurement of Inequality? A Multidimensional Index of Economic Inequality

Measuring multidimensional inequality by means of a univariate index requires weighting the dimensions of inequality. This paper explores the normative and empirical problems involved in measuring inequality by estimating hedonic weights on the basis of German microdata. In contrast to previous works, the perception of inequality, derived from subjective social status, has been used to estimate a weighting ...

Estimation of Linear models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...

Digitale Selbstwirksamkeit als Schlüssel zur Arbeitszufriedenheit im demographischen Wandel. Der Mediierende Effekt digitaler Selbstwirksamkeit auf die Beziehung zwischen Alter und Arbeitszufriedenheit. (Bachelor Thesis)

Die kontinuierliche Digitalisierung der Arbeitswelt führt zu immer schnelllebigeren und komplexeren Arbeitsumfeldern, welche auf der effektiven Nutzung von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) beruhen. Arbeitsfelder transformieren und verdichten sich mit rasanter Geschwindigkeit. Parallel steigt das durchschnittliche Alter der arbeitnehmenden Population und die Arbeitszufriedenheit sinkt. ...

Urban Green Is More than the Absence of City: Structural and Functional Neural Basis of Urbanicity and Green Space in the Neighbourhood of Older Adults

The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions. Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...

Health implications of housing retrofits: Evidence from a population-wide weatherization program

This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates on the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health. We analyze the exceptional period of renovations in East Germany following the German reunification during the 1990s. Triggered by one of the largest governmental loan programs in history, 3.6 million dwellings were renovated, focussing on upgrades to the building ...

Temporary employment and first births: A path analysis of the underlying mechanisms using Australian and German panel data

In many countries, temporary work is negatively associated with fertility. Yet, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain poorly understood. This study investigates a range of mediating pathways (subjective and objective financial situation, short tenure, and employment uncertainty) through which temporary work influences first births in two contrasting contexts: Australia and Germany. Event ...

Immigration, segregation, and attitudes toward immigrants: a longitudinal multiscalar analysis across egohoods

Evidence on how proximity to ethnic outgroups shapes attitudes toward immigration remains inconclusive. We suggest this may be driven, in part, by the fact that studies rarely account for the role of residential segregation. We argue that how the minority-share in an environment affects majority-group attitudes will depend on how segregated groups are from one another. To explore this, we undertake ...

Arbeitszeitpräferenzen von Vätern in Ost- und Westdeutschland: Replikation und Reproduktion einer Studie von Matthias Pollmann-Schult (Thesis)

Die vorliegende Masterarbeit stellt eine Replikation sowie Reproduktion der Studie Familiengründung und gewünschter Erwerbsumfang von Männern – Eine Längsschnittanalyse für die alten Bundesländer von Matthias Pollmann-Schult aus dem Jahr 2008 dar. Ziel ist die Beantwortung der Frage, welche Arbeitszeiten von Vätern präferiert werden sowie die Prüfung, inwieweit die Ergebnisse von Pollmann-Schult repliziert ...

Essays in Empirical Labour Economics (Dissertation)