In this special Brownbag Session, we will present the platform SOEP Statistics to receive feedback from the SOEP team before we go into a final pre-launch phase. SOEP Statistics is both a data explorer and a tool to export weighted descriptive statistics of pre-screened longitudinal variables on all SOEP topics. The platform allows users to group data according to a pre-defined selection of...
The final workshop of the Einstein research project “Open-Source Modeling of the Role of Renewable Hydrogen in Germany and Europe” will take place as part of this year's InfraDay, a free conference organized annually by TU Berlin. The research project (project website) has been running since November 2021 and will be completed at the end of October. The aim of the project, which was carried out...
Crime, Labour and Inequality Department Team
Crime, Labour and Inequality Department News
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...
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...
Life Course and Inequality Research Group Publications
Life Course and Inequality Research Group Events
This article investigates the impact of weather-related disasters on inflation in the euro area over the period 1996–2021. Using a panel structural vector autoregression approach, we explore whether weather-related disasters have a significant and persistent effect on inflation, as well as the role that demand-side and supply-side channels play as drivers of inflation. We also analyse the heterogeneous ...
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...
