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A dataset of study program availability in German higher education between 1971 and 1996

Educational systems are dynamic. They shape human capital, technological and societal progress, and also economic growth. Higher education, in particular, fosters innovation, with varying fields of study contributing differently to this process. Yet, despite its importance, no dataset has previously documented the evolution of academic fields across higher education institutions in a specific country. ...

Chat about SOEP Research Data: A RAG System for Interactive SOEP Data Exploration

The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is one of the world’s longest-running household panel studies, containing rich longitudinal data spanning over four decades. However, the complexity and scale of SOEP data present significant challenges for researchers in data discovery and exploration. This paper presents a prototype Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system designed to provide conversational ...

Accelerating social science knowledge production with the coordinated open-source model

With the growing complexity of knowledge production, social science must accelerate and open up to maintain explanatory power and responsiveness. This goal requires redesigning the front end of the research to build an open and expandable knowledge infrastructure that stimulates broad collaborations, enables breaking down inertia and path dependencies of conventional approaches, and boosts discovery ...

How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants

What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and the social movements that helped them emerge, little research has examined the electoral impact of this stance. Building on work on energy transitions and local political economy, we propose that the economic benefits of nuclear power can mitigate local ...

Socioeconomic Status and Well-being in Elementary School: An Evaluation of Different Indicators of Socioeconomic Status

Although socioeconomic status (SES) is related to students’ well-being, many studies consider only a single SES indicator and one dimension of well-being, providing an incomplete picture. The present study examined SES-related differences among a large sample of elementary school students in Germany. We employed multiple SES indicators, considered both cognitive and psychological dimensions of well-being, ...

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The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer

Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while also ensuring national food security. Nevertheless, the impact of how urban-rural resident’ life quality gap (RLQG) affect cultivated land transfer decision-making remains unclear. This study developed a theoretical framework ...

Preference-Driven Contract Design: How Education Alters Risk, Patience, and Effort in Incentive Schemes

Performance-contingent pay raises productivity, yet in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) only about 16% of workers report receiving performance pay, with the incidence being roughly seven percentage points higher among university graduates than among non-graduates. This coexistence of low aggregate take-up and a strong skill gradient is puzzling. This paper accounts for these twin facts with a ...

Publishing Fine-grained Standardized Metadata – Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers

FAIRness of research data, meaning that data are managed according to the principles of being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, has become a ubiquitous requirement in research data policies as well as in general guidelines for research data management. Meeting this requirement largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized DDI-metadata—based on the Data Documentation ...

LabFam Individual Biographies harmonised family and employment histories based on panel surveys

Reproducibility in social science is often hindered by inconsistent data preparation and limited transparency. The LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB) project addresses this challenge by providing open, cross-national harmonization of life-course histories from five long-running panels: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Switzerland (SHP), the United Kingdom (BHPS/UKHLS), and the United States (PSID). ...