Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Religion and Life Satisfaction: Evidence from Germany

We examined the association between religious involvement and life satisfaction using data drawn from the 2003, 2007, and 2011 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. Our study provides evidence of an association between attendance at religious services and life satisfaction for respondents residing in West Germany. While social networks partially mediate this relationship for West Germany, there ...

Wealth and Asset Holdings of Immigrants in Germany

Home-ownership and Economic Performance of Immigrants in Germany

This paper analyzes the home-ownership gap between native and immigrant households in Germany, paying particular attention to the assimilation process of immigrant households.A double cohort approach is applied to investigate the effect of the duration of residence in Germany on the homeownership probability of immigrant households.Moreover, focusing on homeowners, differences in the housing quality ...

Determinants of Savings and Remittances: Empirical Evidence from Immigrants to Germany

This paper investigates the determinants of migrants’ financial transfers to their home country using German data. A double-hurdle model is applied to analyze the determinants of the propensity to send transfers abroad and the amount of transfers. The findings reveal that return intentions positively affect financial transfers of immigrants to their home country. Moreover, while the effect of the household ...

Nonresponse and Attrition Effect on Design-Based Estimates of Household Income

Child Support Policy: An International Perspective (Chapter 1)

Explaining Gender Convergence in Housework Time: Evidence from a Cohort-Sequence Design

This study connects two lines of research—trend studies on social change in housework time and life-course studies on individual- and couple-level change in housework time. This novel approach allowed us to link the macro-level trend of gender convergence in housework time to the micro-level mechanisms underlying it. Using long-running panel data (SOEP), we implemented a cohort-sequence design that ...

New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment

This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become selfemployed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family transmission of self-employment experiences was largely shut down, the observed correlation between risk preferences ...

Cross National Patterns of Retirement and Poverty Among Men and Women in the 1980s: Full Stop or Gradual Withdrawal?

U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy in a Cross National Perspective