Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The impact of music on educational attainment

This paper analyzes the impact of music practice on educational outcomes. Estimates from multivariate regressions and individual fixed effects suggest that childhood musical activity—either playing an instrument or singing—relates positively to educational achievements in adolescence. The magnitude and significance of the estimated music coefficients for different music indicators is robust when increasing ...

Human Capital and Ethnic Self-Identification of Migrants

Ethnic Self-Identification of First-Generation Immigrants

The Expansion of Low-Cost, State-Subsidized Childcare Availability and Mothers’ Return-to-Work Behaviour in East and West Germany

This study investigates whether increased availability of low-cost, state-subsidized childcare for under 3-year-olds in Germany is associated with shorter employment interruptions amongst mothers. By focusing on a major childcare reform in East and West Germany, we examine the effect in two contexts that differ markedly in the acceptance and use of formal childcare and maternal employment. We combine ...

Getting a Job: The Effect of Employment Sectors and Men’s and Women’s Networks

Most jobs these days are never advertised. People find them through social networks. However, access to social networks is unequal by gender. This paper concentrates on how employment sectors that are segregated by gender affect the probability of men and women getting jobs through social networks. Furthermore, the paper reveals how men’s and women’s same-sex contacts are correlated with getting jobs. ...

Impact of the Introduction of the Social Long-Term Care Insurance in Germany on Financial Security Assessment in Case of Long-Term Care Need

The discussion concerning long-term care insurance in Germany barely exceeds the financial state of the social system. The view of the insured involved is largely ignored. This paper analyses the effect of the introduction of compulsory long-term care insurance in 1995 in Germany on the perception of financial security when needing long-term care. Using different regression techniques on a subset of ...

Political choice in Britain: bounded partisans

A Decision Heuristic for Party Identification: New British and German Data and a New Understanding for a Classic Concept

Partisan Families - The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany and Britain

Do Couples Support the Same Political Parties? Sometimes: Evidence from British and German Household Panel Surveys