Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Risk Aversion and Redistribution

Can we measure individual risk attitudes in a survey?

We combine a survey and an experiment with real pay-out among Peking University students to measure and validate individual risk attitudes. The experiment involves choosing between a cash payment and playing a lottery. The survey questions ask for the reservation price of a hypothetical lottery and self-assessment of risk attitude on a 0-10 scale. We confirm familiar findings: risk aversion dominates, ...

Globalization and its (Dis-)Content: Trade Shocks and Political Attitudes

The last two decades have seen a dramatic rise of manufacturing trade between highwage and low-wage countries. We identify the causal effect of trade-integration on voting behavior in German local (sub-national) labor markets from 1987–1998 and 1998–2009 using both the Iron Curtain’s fall and China’s WTO ascension as exogenous shocks. The only segment of the political spectrum that responds is the ...

Estimating Causal Effects with Matching Methods in the Presence and Absence of Bias Cancellation

Assessing Bias in the Estimation of Causal Effects: Rosenbaum Bounds on Matching Estimators and Instrumental Variables Estimation with Imperfect Instruments

Job Change, Occupational Mobility and Earnings Mobility for Manual Workers in the US and Western Germany

Education, Earnings Gain, and Earnings Loss in Loosely and Tightly Structured Labor Markets: A Comparison between the United States and Germany

Institutions, Technical Change, and Diverging Life Chances: Earnings Mobility in the U.S. and Germany

Income Components and the Stability of Family Income in Western Germany and the United States

Apathy, adaptation or ethnic mobilisation? On the attitudes of a politically excluded group