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Research Project
As part of the ERC Consolidator Grant WEALTHTRAJECT, Philipp Lersch will break new ground in wealth research over the next five years, and further expand the range of high quality data collection by SOEP. WEALTHTRAJECT is the first project to comprehensively and systematically investigate diversity in long-term wealth trajectories within and between social groups.
The starting point of the...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study, Life Course and Inequality
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Research Project
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and the University of Bremen are working together to develop a household panel study on the topic of social cohesion. The survey is being conducted by the infas Institute for Applied Social Science under the name “Zusammenleben in Deutschland,” or “Living Together in Germany.”
The University of Bremen is taking part in the project as a participant in...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Bremen Initiative to Foster Early Childhood Development (BRISE) is a longitudinal study that systematically investigates the effects of early childhood intervention. BRISE follows socio-economically challenged families in Bremen during early childhood. The support chain links selected support programs beginning at a prenatal stage and continuing until the first year of primary school. The...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
KonsortSWD - Consortium for the Social, Behavioural, Educational and Economic Sciences in the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)Researchers in the social, behavioral, educational, and economic sciences work with different types of data that are considered particularly sensitive due to legal or ethical restrictions and that were not originally collected for research purposes.
KonsortSWD...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Project Synthetic Health Data for Research and Policy which is part of the Leibniz Lab "Pandemic Preparedness" aims to develop methods for generating synthetic health data for pandemic research and policy advice. The project will involve several key steps:
Data Review: Analysis and categorization of existing health datasets in Germany, focusing on infectious diseases and personal or...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Institute for Employment Research (IAB), the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and the Research Centre on Migration, Integration, and Asylum of the Federal Office of Migration and Refugees (BAMF-FZ) are working together on a project to survey people seeking protection in Germany from political persecution and violent conflicts. The influx...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
In cooperation with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) has carried out the largest expansion in the number of respondents with a migration background in its 30-year history. Between May and November 2013, around 2,700 households were surveyed, each containing at least one person who had either immigrated to Germany since 1994 or whose parents...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
DECIPHE is the first project to comprehensively study whether and how profound demographic changes in Europe impact the intergenerational persistence of homeownership, considering variations across countries, regions, and birth cohorts.
It adopts a life course framework on housing tenure, in which individuals’ homeownership is shaped by their household members’ preferences and resources and...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study, Life Course and Inequality
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Research Project
Lab2 (Lab Square) is a hub for replicability and meta-science.
Its mission is to enhance the credibility of scientific findings in economics and to support the field in conducting collaborative research grounded in best scientific practices.
To achieve this, the project group engage in research, education, and knowledge transfer. These activities are carried out in close collaboration with a...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The InfPP initiative aims to expand data access for social science research by utilizing existing large-scale surveys and infrastructures such as the SOEP Innovation Panel, the GESIS Panel, the GESIS Access Panel for digital behavioral data, and the NEPS Next cohorts. These platforms enable innovative surveys and experiments, including the selection of special-interest groups, linking different...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
To ensure continued survey participation and data quality, the survey landscape must adapt to the changing social reality, especially with regard to mobility and digitalization. This requires survey researchers to move from one-size-fits-all solutions to a data collection strategy that takes into account people's communication habits, abilities and preferences. For several decades, computer...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
Individuals are embedded in social contexts: although many large-scale, cross-thematic social science surveys already attempt to do justice to this fact, so far research has only been partially successful.
The aim of this study is to supplement and improve the existing data collection strategies - survey designs for multiple actors (MA) and questionnaire modules for egocentric networks (ECN) -...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
This project will create a methodological framework for embedding a transition model with free (unknown) parameters in a dynamic, small-scale microsimulation. A transition model of this kind will also enable latent and/or only partially observed processes to be represented in a microsimulation. The key element for embedding a transition model with free parameters is a metamodel (or statistical...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The project will explore the economic and social effects the mitigation policies and information environment that COVID-19 spawned. We will link those policies to data from ongoing household-based panel studies from 10 countries and rich administrative data from an eleventh. We will exploit the substantial intra and inter-country temporal and geographic variation in non-pharmacological...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel was first conducted in 2012 and is now entering its second round. The focus of SOEP-LEE2 is on longer-term changes in labor relations in the context of ongoing digitalization. In this context, the project examines how the corona pandemic has affected human resources management and leadership.
A key feature of the study is the linkage...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The interdisciplinary linking of data from different sources from different knowledge disciplines through linked (research) data infrastructure services has become more and more important. As part of the pioneering project “Social and Spatial Research Data Infrastructure (SoRa),” a technical and organizational infrastructure was developed to ensure the prototypical linking of the research data...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
We propose to use new survey data to investigate factors that explain whether and why individuals either did not get a COVID-19 vaccine shot or chose to delay getting one. While we examine hesitancy about the COVID-19 vaccine, our study will yield broader insights. Our project has many strengths. In fifteen countries, we will use internationally-harmonized data on individual vaccination behavior...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
How is wealth created and reproduced within the German society? What role do inheritances and parental background play for top wealth holdings? SOEP-P is a new and worldwide unique sample of wealthy individuals in Germany. It comprises more than 1,100 millionaires (with the richest person having a net wealth of more than 130 million Euros) and is fully integrated into the general SOEP household...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The Covid-19 pandemic poses numerous societal challenges. We will examine how it affects distinct social and at-risk groups in Germany, what it implies for societal inequalities, and what role welfare state measures play.
First, we will describe the situation of the population before and during the pandemic in the health and the socio-economic domain. In each domain, we will study a set of core...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Research Project
The war of aggression Russia has been waging on Ukraine since February 24, 2022, has triggered the largest movement of refugees in Europe since World War II. Between the start of the war and January 2023, more than one million people have fled Ukraine to Germany.
The refugee migration from Ukraine differs from previous waves of refugee migration with regard to three institutional framework...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study