The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the circumstances of children related to their well-being. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel to estimate the ...
The generation of user-friendly variables for the first wave of the SOEP Innovation Sample in 2011 is currently underway. The data on the core questions in SOEP-IS are set for distribution in April 2013. Documentation on the instruments used in the sample can be found in the SOEP Survey Paper 110.The data will be provided to all users who have signed a standard SOEP data distribution contract.
In Spring 2013, an important expansion of the SOEP core samples will take place. For the third time in the history of the SOEP, a subsample will be added that consists solely of households with t least one household member of foreign origin. In the first survey wave of 1984, subsample B was launched: this sample of individuals from five southern European countries was obtained from public registry ...
DIW Berlin’s application to continue collection of data for the study Familien in Deutschland (Families in Germany, FiD) in the year 2013 was approved by the Federal Ministry for Family, Seniors, Women, and Youth just a few weeks ago, enabling this “SOEP-related study“ to continue. For 2014, it is planned that all of the households in FiD will be added to the SOEP core study and that ...
As of late November 2012, the data from “Familien in Deutschland” (Families in Germany, FiD) became available in version 2.1. Along with small improvements, the most important change in this version is the provision of combined weighting factors for FiD and SOEP data for the years 2010 and 2011. This allows FiD and SOEP to be used together longitudinally for the first time. Further information ...
Young people tend to smoke more, do less sport, and are more frequently overweight, the lower their mother's school-leaving qualifications. This has been shown by a study conducted by DIW Berlin using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). At least some of these health-related differences can be causally attributed to the mother's education. Social differences are already reflected ...
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