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SOEP-Core – 2024: Haushalt (techn., mit Verweis auf Variablen)

SOEP-Core – 2024: Person (IAB-BAMF-SOEP, M3-M6/M9, mit Verweis auf Variablen)

SOEP-Core – 2024: Screeningfragen (techn., mit Verweis auf Variablen)

Public Policies and the Housing Affordability Gap

Between 1950 and 2023, the housing cost burden — approximated by the proportion of total household consumption expenditure spent on housing, water, electricity and fuel — has risen almost steadily in many countries around the world. First, this trend can be explained by substantial improvements in the quantity and quality of housing. In fact, in some countries (e.g., Germany), per capita floor space ...

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on Long-Term Care: Evidence on Prices

The price of institutional long-term care is a key determinant of the demand for both formal and informal long-term care. In this paper, we examine how the regional unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions influences these prices. Our analysis draws on administrative data that provide detailed information on all nursing homes and ambulatory care services, as well as all recipients ...

Service

The IT and Research Infrastructure , Communications , Finance , and  Human Resources and Organisation departments support the work of the Executive Board and research departments. The IT and Research Infrastructure Department combines two former service departments, Library and Information Technology. The department's function is to support the institute's research by providing the necessary ...

Patient-driven Information Flow and Practice Style Spillover

Access to information is vital to physicians who make critical treatment decisions that shape patients' lives. Although formal channels, such as professional training, medical databases, and clinical guidelines, are well-documented, little is known about informal learning, in which physicians acquire knowledge from peers or patients. In this paper, I study how patients act as carriers of clinical...

Inventors‘ Personal Experience of Natural Disasters and Green Innovation

We show that personal experiences affect high-stakes economic decisions among inventors. Using matched patent and survey data from French and German inventors linked to natural disaster records, we exploit exogenous variation in disaster exposure. Inventors personally affected by natural disasters subsequently produce 8.2 percent more green patents, primarily driven by emission-reducing mitigation...

Part-time Traps (joint with Jan Berendsen, Iris Kesternich and Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann)

Most women reduce their labor supply after childbirth. When children become older, most women spend less time on women spend less time on childcare activities. Yet, female labor supply recovers little as children age and part-time work remains common among mothers of older children. Understanding the motivation behind labor supply choices of women with older children is crucial to design effective...

Raising the Retirement Age for Women. Spillover Effects on Young Adults’ Labor Supply in Brazil**CANCELLED**

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Latin America is facing rapid population aging. To address the sustainability of contributory pension systems, many countries are considering increasing the retirement age. One such case is Brazil, where a pension reform in 2019 raised the retirement age from 60 to 62 for women. While the effects of such reforms on the labor force participation of older adults and their...