Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Mortality Crisis in East Germany

Considerations of Efficiency and Distributive Justice in Multidimensional Poverty Measurement (Dissertation)

Multidimensional Poverty in Germany: A Capability Approach

The German government decided to use Amartya Sen's capability approach as the conceptual framework for the national ‘Poverty and Wealth Reports’ but concluded at the same time that the purely income-based at-risk-of-poverty rate (AROPR) is a satisfactory instrument to operationalise the capability approach. This decision made the latter the official measure to analyse poverty in Germany. This ...

Are investment decisions of firms influenced by local happiness? Evidence from Germany

This thesis investigates the relationship between local happiness and firm investment decisions in Germany for the period 2000 to2015. Investments in capital and research and development (R&D) are hypothesized to be effected by the sentimental setting of decision makers due to their inherent risk and long-term characteristics. The analysis finds no evidence that capital expenditures are correlated ...

The 'healthy migrant effect' - not merely a fallacy of inaccurate denominator figures

Ringbäck Weitoft et al. present intriguing evidence indicating that the lower mortality among immigrants compared to the host population in register studies could largely be explained by inaccurate denominator figures. Their findings suggest that immigrants to Sweden, particularly those from Turkey and Southern Europe, frequently remain registered on the national population registry even after returning ...

Age Differences in Intertemporal Choice: U-Shaped Associations in a Probability Sample of German Households

To describe adult age differences in intertemporal choice, we analyzed data from 1,491 participants who completed an incentivized monetary intertemporal discounting choice task involving different conditions (e.g., time delay of 12 months vs. 1 month). Respondents completed a number of other survey measures, including behavioral measures of cognitive ability, and self-reports concerning health, financial ...

Validation of the German version of the late adolescence and young adulthood survivorship-related quality of life measure (LAYA-SRQL)

Cancer has adverse effects on patient’s quality of life. As such, measuring quality of life (QoL) has become an integral part of psycho-oncological health care. Because adolescent and young adult patients have different needs in contrast to children and older cancer patients, instruments for adequately measuring QoL of cancer survivors in this age range are essential. As there is not a corresponding ...

SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) — Description, Structure and Documentation

The SOEP Group currently is preparing in addition to increasing the size of the core SOEP, to establish a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). This will be established for the period 2012 to 2017 (with a cumulative number of presumably N=5,000 households). Now, in the year 2012, a new subsample is being added for SOEP IS that will also replace the previous SOEP pretest sample. Starting with the 2013 survey, ...

The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP IS)

Nuclear Accidents and Policy: Notes on Public Perception

Major nuclear accidents as recently in Fukushima set nuclear power plant security at the top of the public agenda. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel we analyze the effects of the Fukushima accident and a subsequent government decision on nuclear power phase-out on several measures of subjective perception in Germany. In the light of current political debates about the strategic orientation ...