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 ...
Many high-income economies strive to integrate recently immigrated refugees and asylum-seekers into their labor markets. We contribute to the discussion of relevant policy tools and use rich survey data that are matched to precise administrative records on refugee immigrants to Germany. We study the impact of occupational recognition decisions on refugee outcomes. Applying a difference-in...
This paper investigates the long-run consequences of a later school entry for personality traits. For identification, we exploit the statutory cutoff rules for school enrollment in Germany within a regression discontinuity design. We find that relatively older school starters have persistently lower levels of neuroticism in adulthood. This effect is entirely driven by women, which has important...
The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to gender equality, particularly affecting working parents due to disruptions in daycare and school operations. It also impacted labor market opportunities for both men and women. This study investigates shifts in gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany during pandemic lockdowns and subsequent periods of eased restrictions, using ...
On November 17 and 18, 2025 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work ...
The MINDSET_Clean_H2 research project aims to develop innovative open-source models that align the uptake of hydrogen (H2) in the EU with developments in international markets. By combining game-theoretic analyses with numerical modelling and machine learning methods, a set of instruments is developed that can also be used in the face of changing regulation and market developments. The aim is to...
We study how rent control and housing rationing shape housing investment and market tightness in Geneva using a VAR on annual data (1994–2022) with generalized impulse responses and Granger causality. We find that housing rationing functions as a binding quantity restriction as it precedes a contraction in new institutional construction and Granger-causes lower vacancy rates. This increased scarcity ...
The 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2026) will be held in Berlin from July 8 to 9, 2026 at the Quadriga Campus. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with their peers. This includes users of the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF), LIS/LWS data, and SOEP-IS, as well as...
