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Peter Krause: A Pioneer in Household Panel Surveys and Quality of Life Applications

Born in the south of Germany during the mid-1950s, I grew up in the tensions of parents with a [post] World War II background and the political and social re-orientations within the younger generations. My parents were farmers by passion–starting their family life with solid economic and social foundations, albeit against the fragile political background of WWII. My two eldest siblings were born at ...

Early Childcare Expansion and Maternal Health

This paper estimates the effect of increased early childcare availability on maternal health. We focus on a substantial expansion of early childcare in West Germany from 2006 to 2019. By matching county-level childcare attendance rates with individual data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that a 10-percentage point increase in childcare availability decreases mothers’ self-assessed ...

Auswirkungen der Kindergrundsicherung auf Armut, Beschäftigung und Wirtschaftswachstum

Die Studie untersucht auf Basis eines mikroökonomisch fundierten makro-ökonomischen Modells die Auswirkungen der Einführung der Kindergrundsicherung auf Kinderarmut, Chancengleichheit, Beschäftigung und Wirtschaftswachstum. Der Fokus liegt auf den langfristigen Effekten, die sich aus der Ausweitung des Leistungsbezugs - zusätzlich 1,5 Millionen Kinder erhalten Unterstützung - ergeben. Die Einführung ...

Fluchterfahrungen und Unterstützung nach der Ankunft

Studying turning points in labour market trajectories – benefits of a panel-based mixed methods design

Turning points describe a fundamental change of direction in a life course trajectory. However, they are challenging to study because of their temporal extension, the complexity of processes at stake during those critical life sequences, and the fact that individuals’ interpretation as well as more objective changes in social status and position play important roles in turning points. Panel-based mixed ...

Reassessing Chronic Strain: A Research Note on Women's Income Dynamics After Divorce and Separation

The economic consequences of divorce and sep a ra tion for women are com monly asso ci ated with the chronic strain model, according to which women's losses are large and per sis tent. This research note shifts the focus to a cri sis model high light ing women's poten tial of, and routes to, recov ery from ini tial losses. Drawing on Ger man SocioEconomic Panel data (1984-2021) on women in ...

Personal and Social Worries Associated with the Likelihood of Having Children

Previous studies showed that worries about the economic situation and job security are associated with childbearing, but evidence is scarce on whether worries about other personal and social issues are also related to childbearing. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study, this study examined the relationship between worries about various personal and social issues and the likelihood of having ...

Niedriglohnsektor in Deutschland schrumpft seit 2017

Die Bruttostundenlöhne von abhängig Beschäftigten sind im Zeitraum 1995 bis 2021 inflationsbereinigt durchschnittlich um 16,5 Prozent gewachsen, unter den Vollzeitbeschäftigten sogar um 25 Prozent. Insbesondere bei den niedrigsten Löhnen gibt es seit 2013 starke Zuwächse, vor allem aufgrund der Einführung des Mindestlohns 2015 und dessen Erhöhungen in den folgenden Jahren. Im Ergebnis ist der Niedriglohnsektor ...

Restrictions to Civil Liberties in a Pandemic and Satisfaction with Democracy

In times of crises, democracies face the challenge of balancing effective interventions with civil liberties. This study examines German states’ responses during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the trade-off between civil liberties and public health. Using state-level variation in mobility restrictions, we employ a difference-in-differences design to show that stay-at-home orders ...

Does Schooling Affect Socioeconomic Inequalities in Educational Attainment? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Germany

Critical theories of education and the dynamics of skill formation model predict that the education system reproduces socioeconomic inequalities in educational attainment. Previous empirical studies comparing changes in socioeconomic inequalities in academic performance over the summer to changes in these inequalities during the school year have argued, however, that schooling reduces inequalities ...