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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 108, April 2015.
We have some interesting news about
SOEP-IS data distribution 2013
a note on regional and contextual data sources
SOEP questionnaire 2016
news from Ohio State University
some upcoming events, and some past conferences/workshops (e.g., on qualitative data and the SOEP)
and many more ...
We hope you'll ...
01.04.2015
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SOEP Survey Committee members James Heckman and Janet Gornick finished their current appointment period at the end of 2014. We would like to again express our thanks to them for all of their much-appreciated work on behalf of the SOEP.
The Board of Trustees of DIW Berlin has formally appointed two new members in consultation with the DIW Executive Board and the SOEP Directors. Uwe Sunde and Susann ...
30.03.2015
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The selection process is currently underway for the next SOEPprize (official name: the VdF Best Publication Prize) for publications based on the SOEP data. Two years ago we made some changes in the decision-making process for the award, and now the final decision rests with the SOEP Survey Committee. The selection process is also no longer based solely on nominations but on all publications submitted ...
27.03.2015
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The Economics of Education Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, one of the largest professional economics associations in Europe, awarded its 2013/14 Best Dissertation Prize in the Economics of Education for a dissertation that was based in large part on SOEP data. Pia Pinger received the prize for her dissertation “Essays on Skills, Health and Human Inequality” submitted to ...
27.03.2015
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Elke Holst has been Research Director of Gender Studies at DIW Berlin since 2010; her position became part of the DIW Berlin Executive Board in 2012. According to the F.A.Z. ranking, Holst is considered one of Germany’s most influential economists. Elke Holst was a Senior Economist in the SOEP from 1990 to 2012. Her research in the SOEP focused primarily on gender gap on the labor market. We ...
27.03.2015
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The fifth wave of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), which used the SOEP questionnaire, surveyed 2,232 individuals in 1,536 households. The BASE-II sample was recruited successively and is now complete. There are five waves of BASE-II survey data available for 86 respondents; four waves for 51 respondents; three waves for 913 respondents; two waves for 1,028 respondents; and one wave for 1,236 respondents. ...
27.03.2015
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Fieldwork for the 32nd wave of the SOEP survey is underway, and we would like to inform all our users—in particular longtime SOEP users—about our plans for survey content and special modules in 2016. In line with the “SOEP replication schedule”, which defines when and how often the various modules are repeated, we plan to repeat most of the in-depth questions from 2015 on introduction ...
27.03.2015
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To start the project 'Evaluating the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany (EVA-MIN)' a Summer School is organized at the University of Potsdam on September 21-24, 2015.
The aim of the summer school titled “Effects and Evaluation of Minimum Wages” is to discuss theoretical effects, evaluation approaches, and existing empirical evidence on minimum wages. Talented and interested ...
09.03.2015
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 107, January 2015.
We have some interesting news about:
SOEP data distribution soep.v30beta (what's new in the data set, data ready for sending)
a note on cross-sectional weighting
our plans to revise our household questionnaire
news from the Cross-national Data Center in Luxembourg (LIS)
some upcoming events, and some past ...
05.01.2015
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At the age of just 28, psychologist Jule Specht is an Assistant Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin and a Research Fellow at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. Jule Specht completed her undergraduate and doctoral studies in Münster. Since writing her diploma thesis, she has been studying the development of the personality across the life course using data from the SOEP. ...
05.01.2015
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We are currently in the process of translating and publishing all of the age-specific questionnaires in the SOEP (mother-child / parent-child, youth questionnaires, and a questionnaire given to the relatives of deceased respondents), which up to now were not available in English. The translations are based on the original questionnaires from the 2012 survey; the questions from previous and subsequent ...
22.12.2014
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Best publications with SOEP data in 2013 and 2014Please check if your publications are registered in our database and send the missing ones.
The "Society of Friends of DIW Berlin" (Vereinigung der Freunde des DIW Berlin, VdF) sponsors a prize to honor the best publications based on SOEP-data. This prize honors the very best scientific publication, the best scientific publication by a junior researcher ...
22.12.2014
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Between October 17 and November 14, 2014, a number of SOEP users were kind enough to participate in this year’s SOEP User Survey and give us feedback about our services and infrastructure work. We would like to again thank all those who took the time to support our efforts at continually improving our services.
We are very pleased to be able to rely on a stable user community for our annual ...
22.12.2014
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As a new technical feature, the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) is now being tested with 111 smart phones that were purchased for use in the 2014 SOEP-IS survey. In the current fieldwork phase, the ESM is being used with around 250 respondents, who are asked questions about how they are currently feeling seven times a day on seven subsequent days. Respondents are given the smart phones for this period ...
22.12.2014
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Starting in January 2015, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) research infrastructure at DIW Berlin will, together with colleagues from the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and the University of Potsdam, be making data available for evaluation of the new statutory minimum wage in Germany. They will not only be analyzing the data themselves but also providing them for ...
21.12.2014
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Follow up with the household questionnaires
We would first like to thank everyone who took time to take a critical look at our proposed deletions and changes in the different blocs of questions included in the individual questionnaire at periodic intervals. These changes are still under discussion so it is not too late for you to submit comments if you have not done so already. To involve our English ...
18.12.2014
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The SOEP data remain an interesting start point for research from many areas. The high number of presentations with SOEP data on national and international conferences show proof for that. On the following website you can see a composition of presentations held on basis of the SOEP data: Please click here
01.12.2014
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The SOEP questionnaires appear to have an almost insatiable thirst for knowledge. This can be seen, on the one hand, in the multidisciplinarity and topicality of the questionnaires, and, on the other hand, in the SOEP’s attempt to provide the same data over longer periods of time (longitudinally), which in turn makes it difficult to keep the questionnaires a reasonable length. When we started ...
27.10.2014
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We would like to remind you of the possibilities of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) and encourage you to consider using this instrument in developing new empirical research questions. SOEP-IS is well suited to short-term experiments, but it is particularly useful for long-term surveys that are not possible in the framework of the core SOEP—whether because the instruments are not yet established ...
27.10.2014
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In summer 2014, the German government passed legislation to gradually introduce a mandatory minimum wage across all sectors. The revision of SOEP questionnaires reported on above offers the chance to include additional questions on this “natural experiment”. Our focus is on the SOEP questions about contractually stipulated working hours, paid working hours, the number of hours actually ...
27.10.2014