We have compiled some literatureMore literature in German at the German version of this site. for you here that shows the analytical potential of the longitudinal data offered by the FDZ SOEP, some of which is discipline-specific.
Main articles
Giesselmann, Marco, Sandra Bohmann, Jan Goebel, Peter Krause, Elisabeth Liebau, David Richter, Diana Schacht, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp, and Stefan Liebig. 2019. The Individual in Context(s): Research Potentials of the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) in Sociology. European Sociological Review 35 (5), 738-755. (https://doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcz029, free access)
Goebel, Jan, Markus M. Grabka, Stefan Liebig, Martin Kroh, David Richter, Carsten Schröder, and Jürgen Schupp. 2019. The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik/Journal of Economics and Statistics 239 (2), 345-360. (https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-2018-0022, free access)
Special data sets/studies
Richter, David, and Jürgen Schupp. 2015. The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS). Schmollers Jahrbuch 135 (3), 389-399. (https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.135.3.389, free access only to the SOEPpaper (PDF, 162.91 KB))
Schröder, Mathis, Rainer Siegers, and C. Katharina Spieß. 2013. “Familien in Deutschland” - FiD. Schmollers Jahrbuch 133 (4), 595-606. (https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.133.4.595, free access only to the SOEPpaper (PDF, 160.15 KB))
Brücker, Herbert, Martin Kroh, Simone Bartsch, Jan Goebel, Simon Kühne, Elisabeth Liebau, Parvati Trübswetter, Ingrid Tucci, and Jürgen Schupp. 2014. The new IAB-SOEP Migration Sample: an introduction into the methodology and the contents. SOEP Survey Papers 216 (PDF, 444.25 KB): Series C. Berlin: DIW/SOEP.
Panel and other analyses
Andreß, Hans-Jürgen. 2017. The need for and use of panel data. IZA World of Labor. Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA): Bonn. (https://doi.org/10.15185/izawol.352).
Kröger, Hannes, Jürgen Schupp, and Johann Behrens. 2014. Unlocking further potential in the National Cohort study through comparability with the German Socio-Economic Panel. SOEPpapers 651. Berlin: DIW Berlin.
Brüderl, Josef, Fabian Kratz, and Gerrit Bauer. 2019. Life course research with panel data: An analysis of the reproduction of social inequality. Advances in Life Course Research 41 (September 2019), 100247. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2018.09.003, free access)