Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Income Taxation and its Family Components in France and Germany: A Comparison of Distributional Effects

A New Approach for Assessing Sleep Duration and Postures from Ambulatory Accelerometry

Interest in the effects of sleeping behavior on health and performance is continuously increasing–both in research and with the general public. Ecologically valid investigations of this research topic necessitate the measurement of sleep within people’s natural living contexts. We present evidence that a new approach for ambulatory accelerometry data offers a convenient, reliable, and valid measurement ...

Intrafamilial Upstream Transfers and Household Production

Adaptation to Income Over Time: A Weak Point of Subjective Well-Being

This article holds the view that intertemporal comparisons of subjective well-being measures are only meaningful when the underlying standards of judgment are unaltered. This is a weak point of such measures. The study investigates the change in the satisfaction judgments resulting from adaptation to income over time. Adaptation is defined to be desensitization (sensitization) to the hedonic effect ...

Does subjective well-being dynamically adjust to circumstances?

This paper introduces a simple model to estimate the dynamic adjustment of subjective well-being that results from an updating of expectations in response to changing circumstances. Empirical evidence indicates that adjustment takes place within a relatively short window of time.

The Gap between the Rich and the Poor Keeps Growing: Seven Questions for Markus M. Grabka

De-Institutionalization or Re-Institutionalization of Citizenship? Expectations of Migrants regarding Naturalization in Germany

Home Sweet Home! Does Moving Have (Lasting) Effects on Housing Satisfaction?

Previous research has found that moving has lasting effects on housing satisfaction while adaptation to changing living environments is surprisingly absent from this research. This paper challenges and extends this current state of research. Using data from a large-scale German household panel we find that housing satisfaction (a) sharply declines before the move (self-selection into relocation), (b) ...

Needs, Comparisons, and Adaptation: The Importance of Relative Income for Life Satisfaction

We examine the association between income and life satisfaction. Referring to the so-called Easterlin paradox, three mechanisms are discussed: basic human need satisfaction, interpersonal comparison processes, and adaptation. Hypotheses resulting from these considerations are empirically tested on the basis of two data sets: a self conducted cross-sectional survey among the population of Munich and ...

Do Hours Restrictions Matter? A discrete family labor supply model with endogeneous wages and hours restrictions