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SOEP-IS 2014 – Major Life Events

SOEP-IS 2014 – Too Optimistic? Measurement of Self-Evaluation and Overconfidence in Different Life Domains

SOEP-IS 2013 – Factorial Survey Module on Job Preferences and Job Offer Acceptance

SOEP-IS 2014 – Proposal to include Justice Sensitivity short scales

SOEP-IS 2014 – Lottery Play: Expenditure, Frequency, and Explanatory Variables

SOEP-IS 2014 – Separating systematic measurement error components using MTMM in longitudinal studies

For better or for worse mental health? The role of family networks in exogamous unions

This study tests whether being in an exogamous union affects older individual's family networks, and whether associations between exogamy and mental health reported in previous studies operate through changes in family ties and differ by gender. We focus on individuals aged 60 or above in the German Socio-Economic Panel Study between 2002 and 2016. We describe demographic and family characteristics ...

Emotions and Risk Attitudes

Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people's emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large-panel dataset, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as significant correlates of within-person changes in risk attitudes. Robustness checks ...

Mehrheitsfähige und wohlfahrtssteigernde Reformen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems: Von Entzugsraten, Mittelstands- und Wohlstandsbäuchen

Über die Ausgestaltung des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems wird im Zusammenhang mit der Bundestagswahl neuerlich kontrovers diskutiert. Die Autoren greifen zentrale Aspekte der öffentlichen Diskussion über die steuerliche Behandlung niedriger, mittlerer und hoher Einkommen auf und analysieren diese aus wohlfahrts- und politökonomischer Perspektive. In ihrer Analyse verbinden sie Methoden der ...

Social Inequalities―Empirical Focus

Social inequalities constitute one of the largest research fields of sociology in the German-speaking countries. This field has been successfully institutionalized and internationalized in recent decades. Today, it rests on a rich data infrastructure and a large body of cumulative research. The article traces this advancement in terms of shifting theoretical paradigms, methodological innovations, and ...