Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

On the robustness of reciprocal associations between personality and religiosity in a German sample

Objective Entringer et al. used longitudinal data from a German panel study to examine reciprocal causal effects between personality and religiosity, along with cultural moderators of these effects. The current paper examines the robustness of the original effects to alternative model specifications. Method We reanalyzed the same four-wave data spanning 12 years (total N = 46,316), first replicating ...

Neuroticism, emotional stress reactivity and recovery in daily life: Examining extraversion and openness as moderators

Emotional stressor reactivity and recovery from stressors are associated with the personality trait neuroticism. We examined whether higher extraversion or openness might buffer these associations in daily life. Participants from two age-heterogeneous samples (lifespan: n = 364, aged 14–88 years; late adulthood: n = 170, aged 66–89 years) answered personality questionnaires and reported their momentary ...

The Happiness Analyzer: A New Technique for Measuring Subjective Well-Being

Unequal access to protection? Selection patterns over arrival cohorts of Syrians seeking refuge in Lebanon, Turkey, and Germany

Introduction: An ample scholarly literature on voluntary migration has shown that migration is a highly selective process, resulting in migrant populations that often differ significantly from their respective population of origin in terms of their socio-demographic characteristics. The literature attributes these differences to either migrants' active choice and agency in the migration decision ...

The perception of major life events across the life course

To better understand the effects of life events, research interest recently turned to the question of how life events are perceived (e.g., as positive, predictable, or controllable). However, research on this topic primarily focused on young adulthood, leaving it unclear whether and how the perception of life events varies across the life course. In this study, we examined the relationship between ...

Analysis of survey data in the presence of non-ignorable missing-data and selection mechanisms (Dissertation)

This thesis deals with methods for the appropriate handling of non-ignorable missing data and sample selection, which are two common challenges of survey data analysis. Both issues can dramatically affect the quality of analysis results and lead to misleading inferences about the population. Therefore, in three different research articles, I treat methods for the performance of so-called sensitivity ...

Introducing Open Data Format: A Platform-Independent, Non-Proprietary, Metadata-Enriched, Multilingual Data Format and its Implementation in R and Stata

This paper introduces the Open Data Format (ODF), a new, non-proprietary, multilingual, metadata enriched, and zip-compressed data format that meets the FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. The data format is specified as a CSV file with the raw data and an XML file containing the metadata both compressed into a zip file with the .zip extension. Data files can be ...

Single motherhood: A stage of life as a health risk factor? A longitudinal analysis of physical and mental health among single mothers in Germany

Research has shown poorer health and higher prevalence in mental distress of single mothers compared with partnered mothers. The aim of this paper is to focus on single mothers’ health and to highlight heterogeneity among single mothers. Both, interindividual and intraindividual variability of single mothers will be considered in this study. We will analyze therefore empirically determinants affecting ...

‘And forgive us our debts’: Christian moralities and over-indebtedness

Abstract This paper analyzes whether Christian moralities and rules formed differently by Catholics and Protestants impact the likelihood of households becoming over-indebted. We find that over-indebtedness is lower in regions in which Catholics outweigh Protestants, indicating that Catholics' forgiveness culture and stricter enforcement of rules by Protestants serve as explanations for our results. ...

Basic Income - From Vision to Creeping Transformation of the Welfare State

The present publication constitutively expands the field of discourse on the topic of basic income and explores the possibilities of its introduction as well as the opportunities and risks. Although all visionary proposals for an unconditional basic income (BGE) have so far not been implemented politically, at least in democratically constituted welfare states, the question of implementation or the ...