This paper investigates the relevance of the cultural and economic country context for differences in the effect of male partner income on female income and wage rate for 9,373 respondents in 13 European countries. Data taken from the European Community and Household Panel (ECHP), which comprises information on partner income trends between 1994 and 2001, were used to estimate fixed effect models. ...
Understanding how having children influences the parents' subjective well-being ("happiness") has great potential to explain fertility behavior. We study parental happiness trajectories before and after the birth of a child using large British and German longitudinal data sets. We account for unobserved parental characteristics using fixed-effects models and study how sociodemographic factors modify ...
Daniel Schnitzlein received an appointment to a junior professorship in economics, in particular education economics, at the University of Hannover starting in summer semester 2014. Daniel has accepted the appointment, but will continue to work at the SOEP on a part-time basis. He has held a guest professorship in the Department of Economics at the University of Hamburg since 2013. Daniel joined the ...
Carsten Schröder is new Head of the division Applied Panel Analysis at the SOEP since 1 March. He is one of three Deputy Directors of SOEP. Schröder was jointly appointedto Professor of Empirical Economic Research (W3) by DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin.Before his engagement at the SOEP he was Assistant Professor at the university in Kiel. His main field of research is finance, ...
We examine the effects of an airport expansion on the prices of houses and apartments located under the planned flight paths. We focus on the role of expectations of aircraft noise during the expansion of Berlin-Brandenburg International Airport. The publication of the flight paths can be seen as an exogenous event. It provides local residents and potential home buyers with reliable information in ...
Gert G. Wagner is the new Chair of the Social Advisory Council to the German federal government. He was appointed to the 12-member advisory body by the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Andrea Nahles, following a decision of the federal government. The Council’s primary task is to advise the German government and its legislative bodies on questions of pension policy and old-age security ...
Katharina Poschmann started working in the SOEP in mid-March. She will be covering for Simone Bartsch in the PIAAC-L project during her maternity leave as of May. Katharina studied sociology at the University of Bremen and worked for several years at Prognos AG as a research associate.
Maria Metzing has been working on a project as part of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) as a doctoral student since mid-January. Before this, she worked at DIW Berlin for one year as a student assistant in the SOEP-IS. In December, she completed her master’s degree in economics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her master’s thesis, “Have the New Fathers Arrived Yet? ...
