Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The Role of Personality for Gender Gaps in Political Interest and Activity

Women have been found to be, on average, less interested in politics and less politically active than men, which might reduce the representation of women’s interests in a democracy. In order to enhance the understanding of these gender gaps, this preregistered study analyzes the role of personality differences for gender gaps in political interest and activity.I use a large representative sample of ...

Die Mütterrente II kommt vor allem Rentnerinnen mit geringen und mittleren Einkommen zugute

Die geplante Mütterrente II wird bei unverändertem aktuellem Rentenwert die Rentenausgaben um jährlich 3,5 Milliarden Euro erhöhen. Begünstigt werden Rentnerinnen mit vor 1992 geborenen Kindern bei mindestens drei Kindern. Nach Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) betrifft dies fast ein Viertel aller Rentnerinnen. Simulationsrechnungen zeigen, dass die Mütterrente II überproportional ...

Reform des Ehegattensplittings: Realsplitting mit niedrigem Übertragungsbetrag ist ein guter Kompromiss

Ein Realsplitting wie bei Geschiedenen oder eine Individualbesteuerung mit übertragbarem Grundfreibetrag sind traditionelle Reformoptionen für das Ehegattensplitting. Ihr Nachteil ist, dass sie die Grenzbelastungen des Einkommens von zweitverdienenden PartnerInnen kaum reduzieren und somit die Erwerbsbeteiligung von verheirateten Frauen nur wenig fördern. Ein weiterer Reformvorschlag sind Zusatzfreibeträge ...

Reform Proposal for Marriage Taxation in Germany: De Facto Income Splitting with a Low Transferable Amount

Two traditional options for reforming Ehegattensplitting, the joint taxation of married couples with full income splitting, are de facto income splitting (Realsplitting) or individual taxation with a transferable personal allowance. However, these proposals do not significantly reduce the marginal tax burden on the secondary earner’s income and therefore only minimally encourage married women to participate ...

CO2-Bepreisung für den Verkehrssektor? Bedeutung und Entwicklung der Kosten räumlicher Mobilität der privaten Haushalte bei ausgewählten verkehrspolitischen Instrumenten

Revisiting marital health protection: Intraindividual health dynamics around transition to legal marriage

Objective: This study analyzes the dynamics of health associated with the transition to first marriage and remaining in marriage up to 24 years in order to estimate the protective effect of heterosexual marriage (compared to being never married, including the unpartnered, partnered, and cohabiting) on physical, mental, and self-rated health. Background: Past research produced inconclusive results on ...

Can Facebook likes predict the purchase probability of electricity storage systems?

This study among owners of photovoltaic systems investigates whether users' Big Five personality traits derived from their Facebook likes contribute to whether or not they adopt an electricity storage. It is based on the finding that the digital footprint, especially the Facebook likes, can in part predict the personality of users better than friends and family. The survey was conducted among ...

Regret and Therapeutic Decisions in Multiple Sclerosis Care: Literature Review and Research Protocol

Background: Decisions based on erroneous assessments may result in unrealistic patient and family expectations, suboptimal advice, incorrect treatment, or costly medical errors. Regret is a common emotion in daily life that involves counterfactual thinking when considering alternative choices. Limited information is available on care-related regret affecting healthcare professionals managing patients ...

Do women expect wage cuts for part-time work?

I quantify the perceived changes in hourly wage rates associated with working different hours on the same job for a representative sample of female workers. While part-time working women expect significant hourly wage gains from switching to full-time work - 7% on average - full-time workers expect no effect on current wages when switching to part-time, on average. Perceived pecuniary losses from part-time ...

The Development of the Rank-Order Stability of the Big Five Across the Life Span

Several studies have suggested that the rank-order stability of personality increases until midlife and declines later in old age. However, this inverted U-shaped pattern has not consistently emerged in previous research; in particular, a recent investigation implementing several methodological advances failed to support it. To resolve the matter, we analyzed data from two representative panel studies ...