Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

A Microsimulation Approach for Tax and Social Policy Recommendations in the Federal Republic of Germany

Analysing the Impact of German Tax and Benefit Reforms on Labour Supply - A Microsimulation Approach

Personality Traits and Obesity

Objective: Previous studies investigating the association between body weight and personality traits have found mixed results. This paper uses a large data set and two different study designs (cross-sectional and longitudinal) to provide more consistent estimates of the effect of personality traits on obesity. Methods: The present study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) ...

The relationship between age and subjective well-being: Estimating within and between effects simultaneously

In this paper, we employ a correlated random effects econometric framework to simultaneously estimate the within and between effects of age on subjective well-being based on longitudinal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The proposed approach helps to explain differing findings on the relationship between age and subjective well-being reported in a series of studies based on ...

Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002 and 2004), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected public pension payments. This reform ...

The German Federal Government’s 5th Report on Poverty and Wealth (Executive Summary

Incentive and Redistribution Effects of the "Karlsruher Entwurf zur Reform des Einkommensteuergesetzes" - The Case of Married Couples

Incentive and Redistribution Effects of the German Tax Reform 2000

Tax-benefit microsimulation models for Germany: A survey

Microsimulation Modelling of Work-related Expenses: A New Approach

Based on a representative data set of more than 36,000 original tax report extracts, we develop a microsimulation model that calculates the fiscal impact of changes in the area of tax deductible work-related expenses, in particular expenses for travelling from private home to the place of work, in Germany. The new model allows a more accurate estimation of the fiscal impact of changes in the German ...