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Life satisfaction should be analysed focussing on the institutionalized occupational and private life, on preferences, and on the life course and controlling for life success. To do so, four hypotheses are tested. (1) Private life preference affects private life satisfaction positively, and occupational life satisfaction negatively. (2) Private life preference is affected by private life satisfaction ...
In:
Applied Research in Quality of Life
20 (2025), 3, 1139–1162
| Klaus Birkelbach, Heiner Meulemann, Christian Sondergeld, Veronika Witt
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A large body of research shows that police officers hold more conservative political orientations than the general population, both across countries and over time. Studies seeking to explain this phenomenon report inconclusive findings. This paper studies two possible explanations: self-selection of politically conservative individuals into the police force (selection hypothesis) and growing conservatism ...
In:
Political Research Exchange
8 (2026), 1,
| Felix Bitterer, Simon Kühne
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We investigate the role of cultural norms in shaping women's labor supply decisions after childbirth. Specifically, we are interested in the interplay between childhood socialization and adulthood environment. To that end, we leverage the setting of the German reunification when East Germany's gender-egalitarian culture induced by socialism and West Germany's more traditional culture ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
17 (2025), 2, 41–74
| Barbara Boelmann, Anna Raute, Uta Schönberg
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Mind perception – the inference of mind in others – is foundational for social cognition and interaction, but previous research on its underlying dimensions has so far only produced mixed findings. In a prominent study, H.M. Gray et al. (2007) identified two dimensions of mind perception – Agency and Experience –, while more recent work instead suggests three dimensions similar to Body, Heart, and ...
In:
Cognition
265 (2025), 106231
| Nele J. Bögemann, Lasana T. Harris, Steffen Nestler
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Technological change and globalization have caused unprecedented transformations of labour markets, resulting in a growing division between workers who perform cognitive vs non-cognitive tasks. To date, only few studies have addressed the fertility effects of these long-term structural changes. This study fills that gap. We measure the cognitive task content of occupations using data from the Employment ...
In:
Population Studies
79 (2025), 2, 225–251
| Honorata Bogusz, Anna Matysiak, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Analyses of income distributions across households crucially depend on equivalence scales. They define income increments necessary to keep a household's living standard constant as it is joined by additional adults or children. Such scales have frequently been estimated using income satisfaction data, yet under the assumption that household income, size, and structure are exogenous. The present ...
Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP),
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1234)
| Melanie Borah, Susanne Elsas
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We introduce and adopt the concept of exchange-rate pass-through (ERPT) to the flow of remittances to discern whether remittance flows appear to be defined in home or host currencies. We use Poisson estimation on the German socio-economic longitudinal panel for migrants living in Germany concerning eight remittance corridors. We find that ERPT is complete for Germany-based migrants originating in Romania, ...
In:
Review of World Economics
(2025),
| Fernando Borraz, Nicolás González Pampillón, Susan Pozo
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The impostor phenomenon (IP) refers to individual differences in difficulties in internalizing positive feedback and success, and fear of being exposed as an intellectual fraud. The 2015 wave of the SOEP-IS study included five of the 20 items of the German-language Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale. This study analyzed the psychometric properties and validity of the IP measure used in the SOEP-IS data ...
In:
Psychological Test Adaptation and Development
7 (2026), 64–72
| Kay Brauer
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The Impostor Phenomenon (IP) describes individual differences in self-perceptions of intellectual fraudulence despite evidence of capability. The IP relates to reduced mental health and the “Impostor cycle” suggests that the IP is interdependent with depressiveness and anxiety in a maintaining fashion. The present study used three waves of data (2012, 2015, and 2018) from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders
405 (2026), 121585
| Kay Brauer
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The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) is a standard screening instrument for depression and anxiety. Based on its short length it is frequently used in large panel studies. While there is robust evidence for several aspects of the PHQ-4's reliability and validity, the knowledge about its temporal stability is very limited, with few studies only providing findings that are affected by small ...
In:
Journal of Affective Disorders
404 (2026), 121516
| Kay Brauer, René T. Proyer