Matthias Pollmann-Schult has been a grant holder in the DFG’s Heisenberg Programme at the Social Science Research Center, Berlin, since 2012. He was a student research assistant with the SOEP from 1997 to 2000. He is one of the few male sociologists doing research on fathers using the SOEP data. We talked to him about his findings on the new generation of “involved fathers,” on whether ...
As reported in SOEPnewsletter 109, two international conferences organized by the SOEP team will be taking place in Berlin in Summer 2016. Don’t miss the deadlines to submit your papers: ESPE 30, June 15-18, 2015: deadline for submissions is February 1, 2016.More information at http://www.espe2016.de SOEP 2016, June 22-23, 2016: deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016. More information ...
New faces at the CNEF projectWe are pleased to introduce two new members of the OSU team. Laura Fumagalli (PhD economics University of Essex) is on temporary “loan” from the Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) at the University of Essex. At ISER Laura helps to impute missing data in Understanding Society. She brings a wealth of experience and knowledge. While at OSU, Laura ...
The following topical modules were part of the SOEP-Core survey last year: Control beliefs and reciprocity Friends networks Joint income At the household level: household energy use Last year’s SOEP survey was also the first to include detailed questions about the minimum wage. To give you an idea what data to expect in fall 2016, we have published the questionnaires on our website together ...
An update of the recent SOEP-IS data distribution 2013 is available (DOI: 10.5684/soep.is.2013.2). What’s new? Household and person weights are now included for 2013 in data sets hhrf and phrf. What’s changed? Variables on unemployment, partnership status, and nationality (plb0021, pld0132, pld0133 plj0014, plj0025, plk0001) in dataset p now include information on new respondents ...
We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 110, January 2016. We have some interesting news about our plans regarding an IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Sample (see 'A note on ...' and a report about a workshop) an update of the SOEP-IS Release 2013 an update of the Cross-national Equivalent File (CNEF) data and new faces at the CNEF project the current composition of ...
The 2015 GC Winter Workshop was hosted by DIW Berlin on December 10th and 11th. Five alumni and four PhD candidates presented their research, receiving valuable feedback. Topics ranged from environmental economics to public finance and macroeconomics, with discussions – sometimes heated – from GC students. Serving as an opportunity students and alumni to meet in order to discuss research ...
This paper investigates the role of food self-provisioning for the intake of macro- and micronutrients of households in Mongolia. Our analysis is based on rich household survey data that collected food consumption through consumption diaries. We analyze nutritional outcomes within and across the three prevalent Mongolian livelihoods that derive food from different sources: urban wave employees, rural ...
