Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Personality and Marital Surplus

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the effect of personality traits on the formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for men and women born before 1960, suggesting that gender-specialized contributions to household public goods were an important source of marital surplus ...

Educational Inequality and the Returns to Skills

Research and policy discussion about the diverging fortunes of children from advantaged and disadvantaged households have focused on the skill disparities between these children – how they might arise and how they might be remediated. Analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health reveals another important mechanism in the determinants of educational attainment – differential ...

The Patterns of Convergence of Eastern German Labor Markets to Western Standards Post-Unification

Returns to education: not until 2005 did East German men do as well as Westeners, but Eastern women did better

Testing Logit Models in Practice

The aim of the paper is to provide the practioner with easily implementable procedures, both numerical and graphical, to test the specification of the dichotomous, linear-in-coefficents logit model. We discuss the performance of these asymptotic methods in small samples on the basis of Monte-Carlo simulations and apply them to a cross-section study of female labour supply in West Germany.

Some Specification Tests for Static Limited Dependent Variable Models Estimated on Panel Data

The Dynamics of Self-Employment in East Germany - An Empirical Analysis Using Panel Data and Allowing for State Dependence and Endogenous Attrition

Effects of Continuous Off-the-job Training in East Germany after Unification: Preliminary Results of an Evaluation of the Effects for Individual Workers

Some Specification Tests for Probit Models Estimated on Panel Data

Training the East German Labour Force (Dissertation)