SOEP Research: Subjective Well-Being, Personality, Health

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    Nearly every fifth person in Germany feels lonely some of the time

    29.01.2025
  • DIW Weekly Report 5/6 / 2025

    Loneliness in Germany: Low-Income Earners at Highest Risk of Loneliness

    Loneliness poses a serious health risk: Along with negatively impacting life quality, it can even shorten the life span. This Weekly Report investigates loneliness in Germany using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2021 on loneliness. The analyses highlight the prevalence of three facets of loneliness (aloneness, isolation, exclusion) as well as regional differences and high-risk groups. The results ...

    2025| Theresa Entringer, Linda Kumrow, Barbara Stacherl
  • Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen

    Occupations, Disability Insurance, and Career Choices

    Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...

    29.01.2025| Annica Gehlen
  • Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen

    Working Longer: The Effects of a Higher Retirement Age on Work-Related Health Investments During the Working Life

    Health investments are vital for maintaining physical and mental well-being throughout working life, and their importance is amplified with rising retirement ages due to demographic aging. This is the first study to examine if a longer working life causally increases institutionalized health investments. We explore the impact of a German pension reform that raised the retirement age by three years...

    12.02.2025| Mia Teschner
  • SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Perceived Climate Impacts and Environmental Action

    This study explores the responsiveness of climate policy preferences and individual behaviors to variations in beliefs about climate change impacts. Using an information provision experiment embedded within the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze how updated beliefs influence pro-environmental engagement and whether these effects persist over time. By linking experimental data with rich...

    22.01.2025| Sven Hartmann, Trier University
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Mortality Inequality in Chile

    This paper analyses trends in mortality inequality in 330 Chilean communes from 1990 to 2010 for different age groups and both genders. Chile had substantial inequalities in local-level mortality rates in 1990 but by 2010 these disparities had significantly decreased, especially among infants, children and the elderly. The only exception was Chilean men aged 20–39, for whom inequality in mortality ...

    In: Fiscal Studies (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-09-07] | Gedeão Locks
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    From Feeling Depressed to Getting Diagnosed: Determinants of a Diagnosis of Depression after Experiencing Symptoms

    Receiving a formal diagnosis for a depressive disorder is a prerequisite for getting treatment, yet the illness inherently complicates care-seeking. Thus, understanding the process from depression symptoms to diagnosis is crucial. Aims: This study aims to disentangle (1) risk factors for depression symptoms from (2) facilitators and barriers to receiving a diagnosis after experiencing depression symptoms. ...

    In: The International Journal of Social Psychiatry (2025), im Ersch. [online first: 2024-12-26] | Barabra Stacherl, Theresa Entringer
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Life Events and Life Satisfaction: Estimating Effects of Multiple Life Events in Combined Models

    How do life events affect life satisfaction? Previous studies focused on a single event or separate analyses of several events. However, life events are often grouped non-randomly over the lifespan, occur in close succession, and are causally linked, raising the question of how to best analyze them jointly. Here, we used representative German data (SOEP; N = 40,121individuals; n = 41,402 event occurrences) ...

    In: European Journal of Personality 39 (2025), 1, S. 3-23 | Michael D. Krämer, Julia M. Rohrer, Richard E. Lucas, David Richter
  • Externe Monographien

    Navigating Uncertainty: Do Communicable Diseases Influence Risk Preferences?

    This paper explores the effect of COVID-19 infection rates on individuals’ risk preferences using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Findings show that the spread of COVID-19 does not significantly alter risk preferences. While we do find that individuals with prior cardiovascular diseases reduce their preference for risk-taking, this zero effect is remarkably stable across subgroups of the population. ...

    Rochester : SSRN, 2024, 42 S. | Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
  • Weitere externe Aufsätze

    Mental Health in East and West Germany from Reunification to the Present

    This chapter provides the first extensive overview of mental health in Germany since reunification. Relying on data from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual, representative panel study running since 1984 (in East Germany since 1990), this chapter reports the prevalence of mental health conditions in West and East Germany across 30 years. Specifically, the data provides insights into life satisfaction, ...

    In: Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt (Eds.) , Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall : German Unification and Transformation Research
    London : Routledge
    S. 25-51
    | Theresa M. Entringer, Laura Buchinger, Lisa Güttschow, Tillman Schenk
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