Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Social Logic of Bounded Partisanship in Germany: A Comparison of West Germans, East Germans and Immigrants

The Relationship Between Homeownership and Life Satisfaction in Germany

The article investigates the relationship between homeownership and life satisfaction in Germany, using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data from 1992 to 2009. The data not only allow controlling for a wide range of variables, but also tackle various measurement problems of previous studies. Ordered logit models support a positive relationship between homeownership and life satisfaction. In addition, ...

Parental investment and the intergenerational transmission of economic preferences and attitudes

We study empirically whether there is scope for parents to shape the economic preferences and attitudes of their children through purposeful investments. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents ...

A disadvantaged childhood matters more if local unemployment is high

Using multilevel models on the German Socio‐Economic Panel Study this paper shows that disadvantaged young adults (16‐35 years old) are more affected by the business cycle than their similarly educated counterparts from more advantaged backgrounds. We propose that a disadvantaged background lowers desirability on the labour market, which matters more to employers as the labour market tightens. When ...

Child Care Costs and Mothers' Labor Supply: An Empirical Analysis for Germany

The Excess Demand for Subsidized Child Care in Germany

An Evaluation of Recent Child Care Reforms in Germany

Evaluating Family Policy Reforms Using Behavioral Microsimulation - The Example of Childcare and Income Tax Reforms in Germany (Dissertation)

Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market (substantially revised version)

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model ...

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