Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Sample Attrition between Waves 1 and 5 in the European Community Household Panel

Issues in Using the ECHP

The HILDA Survey: a case study in the design and development of a successful household panel study

The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey is one of only a small number of well-established, large, nationally-representative household panel studies conducted in the world. With annual data collection commencing in 2001 there are now over 10 years of unit record data available to researchers, with the promise of many more to come. While the design of the HILDA Survey owes ...

Re-engaging with Survey Non-respondents: The BHPS, SOEP and HILDA Survey Experience

Previous research into the correlates and determinants of non-response in longitudinal surveys has focused exclusively on why it is that respondents at one survey wave choose not to participate at future waves. This is very understandable if non-response is always an absorbing state, but in many longitudinal surveys, and certainly most household panels, this is not so. Indeed, in these surveys it is ...

Cultural Differences in Risk Tolerance

Risk aversion is of great importance on a microeconomic and a macroeconomic level. First of all, risk aversion is an important factor in explaining many everyday decisions. Among these are decisions to invest money in different types of assets, the decision to enter the labour market and others like the decision to move (Guiso and Paiella, 2004). As risk tolerance is so important in life, one asks ...

Determinants of risk tolerance

Risk aversion is an important factor in explaining many everyday decisions. Thus, one asks which determinants can explain different attitudes towards risk. Several studies show different risk attitudes with respect to gender, age, income, and wealth (e.g. [19]). While these findings are hardly controversial, there is still some uncertainty about the effect of culture on risk tolerance. Thus, the main ...

Does intermarriage change migrants’ preferences for the home country?

Motivations for migrants to return clearly change with integration, but the time-changing aspect of return migration has received little attention in the literature. This paper studies how migrants’ preferences for the home country change with intermarriage, i.e., marriage to a spouse from the host country. Specifically, I analyse the association between intermarriage and three outcomes related to ...

Can facts trump unconditional trust? Evidence-based information halves the influence of physicians’ non-evidence-based cancer screening recommendations

Informed decision making in medicine, defined as basing one’s decision on the best current medical evidence, requires both informed physicians and informed patients. In cancer screening, however, studies document that these prerequisites are not yet met. Many physicians do not know or understand the medical evidence behind screening tests, do not adequately counsel (asymptomatic) people on screening, ...

The Incidence of the Need for Personal Assistance and Care: Objective Living Conditions and Subjective Assessments

Econometric Analysis of Count Data. 4th Edition