Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Early Retirement Patterns in Europe. A comparative Panel Study (Dissertation)

Early retirement patterns in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom

Job-Related Determinants of Unhealthy Lifestyles

Objective: We investigate whether job-related characteristics are related to unhealthy lifestyles. We consider two components of unhealthy lifestyles, namely smoking behavior and overweight. Methods: For our study, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Depending on our dependent variables, we apply tobit and ordered probit estimations. We further run fixed-effects estimations since ...

Who gets ostracized? A personality perspective on risk and protective factors of ostracism

Ostracism, excluding and ignoring others, results from a variety of factors. Here, we investigate the effect of personality on the likelihood of becoming a target of ostracism. Theorizing that individuals low in conscientiousness or agreeableness are at risk of getting ostracized, we tested our hypotheses within 5 preregistered studies: Four experiments investigating participants’ willingness to ostracize ...

The benefits of adult learning: Work-related training, social capital, and earnings

We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP, we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of adult education in OECD ...

Smooth expectiles for panel data using penalized splines

Expectile regression is a topic which became popular in the last years. It includes ordinary mean regression as special case but is more general as it offers the possibility to also model non-central parts of a distribution. Semi-parametric expectile models have recently been developed and it is easy to perform flexible expectile estimation with modern software like R. We extend the model class by ...

Do(n’t) Worry, It’s Temporary: The Effects of Fixed-Term Employment on Affective Well-Being

This paper examines the impact of fixed-term employment on the affective and cognitive well-being of employees operationalized by the subjective frequency of the basic emotions of happiness, sadness, fear and anger as well as life satisfaction. Longitudinal effects were analysed across 10 waves of sampling from the Socio-Economic Panel, an annual representative survey in Germany. Random effects within ...

Transnational Activities and Immigrant Integration in Germany: Concurrent or Competitive Processes?

This book investigates both the causes and effects of transnational activities among immigrants in relation to their integration into the receiving society. It uses large scale, representative data about first and second generation immigrants in Germany. It develops a formal theoretical model, which explains both transnational involvement and paths of immigrant integration. Important questions are ...

Pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants: evidence from a large national panel survey in Germany

Objective. Discrimination is an important determinant of health, and its experience may contribute to the emergence of health inequalities between immigrants and nonimmigrants. We examine pathways between perceived discrimination and health among immigrants in Germany: (1) whether perceptions of discrimination predict selfreported mental and physical health (SF-12), or (2) whether poor mental and physical ...

Multidisciplinary Household Panel Studies under Academic Direction

This paper concentrates on the trends in peer-reviewed longitudinal panel studies under scientific direction. Household panel studies have succeeded in broadening their disciplinary scope. Numerous innovations such as questions dealing with psychological concepts, and age-specific topical modules, physical health measures, measures of cognitive capabilities, behavioral experiments have been incorporated ...