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In this article, we introduce the command beyondpareto, which estimates the extreme-value index for distributions that are Pareto-like, that is, whose upper tails are regularly varying and eventually become Pareto. The estimation is based on rank-size regressions, and the threshold value for the upper-order statistics included in the final regression is determined optimally by minimizing the asymptotic ...
In:
The Stata Journal
25 (2025), 1, 169–188
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Isabella Retter, Mattis Beckmannshagen
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DIW focus / 2019
Soziale Stratifikation entsteht durch Ungleichverteilung von gesellschaftlich relevanten Ressourcen wie Geld, Bildungszertifikate oder soziale Kontakte. EmotionssoziologInnen fügen dem eine weitere Dimension hinzu, indem sie annehmen, dass bestimmte Gefühle, positiv oder negativ, Angst oder Freude, in bestimmten sozialen Statusgruppen öfter (seltener) erlebt werden. Dieser Beitrag schließt an diese ...
2019| Coline Kuche
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This study evaluates the impact of Germany’s 2007 parental leave reform (Elterngeld), which introduced two months of non-transferable leave for fathers. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the analysis compares families with children born just before and after the policy’s implementation. The reform helped mothers return ...
2025,
| Christina Lin
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How does the arrival of a new immigrant group affect earlier generations of immigrants? Do intergroup relations and self-identification among earlier immigrants change? Previous research on ethnic boundaries is usually restricted to a twogroup paradigm and primarily focuses on the majority group's perspective. In contrast, this study analyzes how the arrival of refugees in Germany influenced previous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1225)
| Renate Gabriele Lorenz
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Despite extensive literature on incentives to increase employees’ work performance, economic research on employer-provided non-monetary benefits remains rare. This study investigates the relationship between benefits and employees’ work effort utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis is based on data from eleven survey waves from 2006 to 2022 and considers five benefit types: ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1228)
| Helena Manger
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The empirical literature on the relationship between age and well-being is characterised by an unusually persistent series of disagreements over data, method, and interpretation. Previous attempts to advance the discussion have involved different scholars’ specific prescriptions, which were often in near total contradiction to other scholars’ attempts to do the same. Instead, we use specification curve ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1235)
| Kausik Chaudhuri, Alan Piper
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Personality traits have been confirmed to be associated with mental health, but their influence on the trajectories of depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older adults in China is not well understood. This study seeks to identify distinct trajectories of depressive symptoms and explore their relationship with the Big Five personality traits in China.
In:
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
(2025),
| Weichao Chen, Wanren Wang, Xiaoyan Wang
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This paper examines the stability of self-control over time using nationally-representative longitudinal data from Australia. We track the same individuals between 2019 and 2023, a period encompassing one of the most disruptive global crisis in recent history: the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite these extraordinary circumstances, self-control remained remarkably stable: its mean and distribution were unchanged, ...
Bonn:
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA),
2025,
(IZA DP No. 18270)
| Deborah A. Cobb-Clark, Anthony Lepinteur, Giorgia Menta
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Since the turn of the twenty-first century, subnational regions have become increasingly polarized with regard to anti-immigration attitudes. However, the reasons behind geographical changes over time are unclear. We argue that regional labor market risks are a key and overlooked factor driving residential choices and subsequent attitudinal change. We rely on georeferenced panel data from the German ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Denis Cohen, Sergi Pardos-Prado
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The rise of the knowledge economy draws workers towards concentrated skill clusters and creates political conflicts between urban high-opportunity areas and rural and suburban areas of lower dynamism. We advance the existing literature with a dynamic perspective by studying the political consequences of a structural pull into destinations that are typically more progressive than the places of origin. ...
In:
British Journal of Political Science
55 (2025),
| Valentina Consiglio, Thomas Kurer