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Milestones

1985 – The first article based on the SOEP data is published in a technical journal 1990 – More than 200 interviewers carry out the first survey in East Germany 2000 – For the first time, the SOEP youth questionnaire will also be used to interview adolescents. 2003 – SOEP researchers develop first mother-child questionnaire 2004 – Personality and developmental psychology discovers the SOEP 2008 – SOEP's ...

The Institutional History of the SOEP

The SOEP was founded in 1983 under the leadership of Prof. Hans-Jürgen Krupp as a subproject of the “Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy” Collaborative Research Center, which was based at the Universities of Frankfurt/Main and Mannheim and funded by the German Research Association (DFG) since 1979. In 1983, Krupp brought the SOEP to DIW Berlin. There, he succeeded in establishing the SOEP ...

Public Economics Department

The Public Economics Department analyzes how financial, fiscal, and social policies influence economic decisions made by individuals, households, and companies. The department’s key focus is on fiscal and social policy in Germany, with analyses based on microsimulation models and microeconometric methods. Of particular interest are the behavioral patterns of households, companies, and policy...

Climate Policy Department

The Climate Policy Department analyzes the transition to a climate-friendly economy. It explores CO₂ pricing, electricity market design, support and financing instruments, as well as standards and information tools and how they can be effectively structured and coordinated. In the electricity sector, the department examines the further development of the national and European electricity markets...

Energy, Transportation, Environment Department

The Energy, Transportation, Environment Department researches different strategies of sustainable development in energy, transportation and the environment in order to formulate sound policy recommendations. Transforming the energy system and the effects of energy and climate policy on the resource and environmental markets are of primary concern. Certain aspects of the transport markets are also...

The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment.Wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally accruing economic payoffs only, but potentially also by other factors, such as emphasis on environmentally friendly energy production and its associated benefits. Thus, the local economic impacts of wind power deployment are ambiguous.We empirically test the existence ...

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the rent control introduced in 2015 to dampen rent increases in tight housing markets (Mietpreisbremse)

The project investigates the effectiveness of the rent control for new rental contracts introduced in 2015. The effects of regulation on price formation in the regulated and unregulated housing market will be analyzed. In addition, the effects of the rent control on supply will be examined and the extent to which the law may have prevented investment will be studied.

SOEP-in-Residence – Our guest program

... for researchers interested in using regional data ... for SOEP data users ... for early-career researchers ... for students Our SOEP-in-Residence guest program allows visiting researchers to work with sensitive, small-scale regional datasets that can only be accessed from secure computers located at the SOEP Research Data Center. The program also welcomes SOEP data users who would like support ...

Jakob Miethe interviewed on Deutsche Welle English on the effect of international information exchange

In recent years, the global community has promoted several initiatives aimed at breaking bank secrecy in tax havens. Such treaties for the exchange of information among tax offices can be effective. A treaty between country A and tax haven B reduces deposits from A in banks of B by approximately 30 percent. However, the analysis shows that tax evaders react to such treaties not by becoming honest taxpayers ...

Coal Transition in Germany: Learning from past Transitions to Build Phase-Out Pathways