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Documentation of SOEP-Core (SOEP Survey Papers)

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Documentation SOEP-IS (SOEP Survey Papers)

A latent class growth model for migrants’ remittances: an application to the German Socio-Economic Panel

We propose a latent class mixture growth model with concomitant variables to study the time profiles of international remittances sent by first-generation migrants in Germany from 1996 to 2012. The latent class approach enables us to identify homogeneous subgroups of migrants associated with different trajectories for their remitting behaviour, which can be interpreted in the light of the theoretical ...

Ökosteuer-Einnahmen sorgen noch heute für niedrigere Rentenbeiträge und höhere Renten

Mit der ökologischen Steuerreform wurden von 1999 bis 2003 die Energiesteuersätze – insbesondere auf Benzin und Diesel – erhöht und eine Stromsteuer eingeführt. Heute erzielen diese Ökosteuererhöhungen ein jährliches Aufkommen von etwa 20 Milliarden Euro oder 0,6 Prozent des Bruttoinlandsprodukts. Damit werden höhere Bundeszuschüsse an die Rentenversicherung finanziert. Berechnungen auf Basis eines ...

Personality Traits and Obesity

Objective: Previous studies investigating the association between body weight and personality traits have found mixed results. This paper uses a large data set and two different study designs (cross-sectional and longitudinal) to provide more consistent estimates of the effect of personality traits on obesity. Methods: The present study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) ...

The relationship between age and subjective well-being: Estimating within and between effects simultaneously

In this paper, we employ a correlated random effects econometric framework to simultaneously estimate the within and between effects of age on subjective well-being based on longitudinal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The proposed approach helps to explain differing findings on the relationship between age and subjective well-being reported in a series of studies based on ...

SOEP 2012 – Methodenbericht zur SOEP-Retrospektiverhebung "Frühe Kindheit im (Nach-)Kriegskontext"