Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from rich to poor, they should favour mixed over pure public provision, but if public provision redistributes from ...

Analyse der Versorgungssituation gynäkologisch erkrankter türkischer und deutscher Frauen im Krankenhaus (Schlussbericht)

Smarter every day: The deceleration of population ageing in terms of cognition

Cognitive decline correlates with age-associated health risks and has been shown to be a good predictor of future morbidity and mortality. Cognitive functioning can therefore be considered an important measure of differential ageing across cohorts and population groups. Here, we investigate if and why individuals aged 50+ born into more recent cohorts perform better in terms of cognition than their ...

Adequacy of Pension Systems in Europe: An Analysis Based on Comprehensive Replacement Rates

Providing access for all individuals to appropriate pension entitlements, public and/or private, which allow them to maintain, to a reasonable degree, their standard of living after retirement is considered a social policy objective.1 An exploration of the above objective can be performed by comparing the individuals’ living standards when active and when retired. The aim of this paper is to develop ...

The Economics and Psychology of Personality Traits

This paper explores the interface between personality psychology and economics. We examine the predictive power of personality and the stability of personality traits over the life cycle. We develop simple analytical frameworks for interpreting the evidence in personality psychology and suggest promising avenues for future research.

Die Lebenslagen im zeitlichen und räumlichen Vergleich - Zur methodischen Weiterentwicklung des Lebenslagenansatzes auf Basis der Daten des Sozio-ökonomischen Panels 1992 bis 2005 (Dissertation)

The dissertation focuses on the methodological enhancements of the Konzept der Lebenslage (concept of living conditions). This concept is special for its attempt on including traditional status variables like education, occupation and income as well as social and health-related items and also subjective indicators. The aim was to build a model to represent social and living conditions in an all-embracing ...

The COGITO Study: What can be done with data from 100 days of testing

Hundred days of cognitive training enhance broad cognitive abilities in adulthood: findings from the COGITO study

We examined whether positive transfer of cognitive training, which so far has been observed for individual tests only, also generalizes to cognitive abilities, thereby carrying greater promise for improving everyday intellectual competence in adulthood and old age. In the COGITO Study, 101 younger and 103 older adults practiced six tests of perceptual speed (PS), three tests of working memory (WM), ...

Keeping It Steady: Older Adults Perform More Consistently on Cognitive Tasks Than Younger Adults

People often attribute poor performance to having bad days. Given that cognitive aging leads to lower average levels of performance and more moment-to-moment variability, one might expect that older adults should show greater day-to-day variability and be more likely to experience bad days than younger adults. However, both researchers and ordinary people typically sample only one performance per day ...

38 Latente Wachstumskurvenmodelle

Werden in sozialwissenschaftlichen Studien Veränderungsprozesse untersucht, zum Beispiel in der Entwicklungspsychologie, den Erziehungswissenschaften oder in der Soziologie des Lebenslaufes, so interessiert man sich in der Regel sowohl für allgemeine, mittlere Veränderungsverläufe als auch für interindividuelle Unterschiede beziehungsweise Abweichungen von den mittleren Veränderungen, sowie für Ursachen ...