Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Transgenerational Effects of Childhood Conditions on Third Generation Health and Education Outcomes

This paper examines the extent to which pre-puberty nutritional conditions in one generation affect productivity-related outcomes in later generations. Recent findings from the biological literature suggest that age 8-12 is a critical period for male germ cell development. We build on this evidence and investigate whether undernutrition at that age biologically transmits to children and grandchildren. ...

Instrumental Variable Estimation of the Causal Effect of Hunger Early in Life on Health Later in Life

We estimate average causal effects of early-life hunger on late-life health by applying instrumental variable estimation, using data with self-reported periods of hunger earlier in life, with famines as instruments. The data contain samples from European countries and include birth cohorts exposed to various famines in the twentieth century. We use two-sample IV estimation to deal with imperfect recollection ...

Potenziale unfreiwilliger Teilzeit in Deutschland

Working-time political debates often focus on options for flexible and variable working hours. Meanwhile, employees' desire for more time sovereignty is gaining relevance. Although working time preferences and their impact on the German labor market are investigated in numerous studies, findings are inconsistent, varying with the data set, including the formulation and placement of questions in ...

Development of city tourism and well-being of urban residents: A case of German Magic Cities

Many cities consider development of cultural tourism as opportunity to sustain employment and economic growth of the area. However, increasing tourists’ flows affect local economies and lives of local residents in a number of ways, not excluding negative effects. Careful consideration of benefits and pitfalls of the development of city tourism is necessary in order to sustain balanced urban development. ...

The Effect of Partial Retirement on Labor Supply, Public Balances and the Income Distribution - Evidence from a Structural Analysis

This paper develops a structural dynamic retirement model to investigate effects and corresponding underlying mechanisms of a partial retirement program on labor supply, fiscal balances, and the pension income distribution. The structural approach allows for disentangling the two counteracting mechanisms that drive the employment effects of partial retirement: 1) the crowding-out from full-time employment, ...

Partial Retirement, Financial Student Aid, and Labor Market Responses: Empirical Evidence from Germany

What a Difference Peers Can Make: The Impact of Work Norms on Unemployment Duration - A Regional Approach

Social interaction models, i.e. the changing sequence of actions between individuals who modify their behaviour under the influence of their peers, have rarely enjoyed as high a profile in economic analysis as they do today. This paper outlines a model of how social interactions among persons belonging to the same region might influence individual unemployment duration. The impact is assumed to be ...

The Relation between Life Patterns and Success at Work of Women and Men in Germany

Success at Work, Life Patterns, and Overall Life Satisfaction: Changes in the Lives of Men and Women since the 1980s in West Germany

This paper focuses on the structural relationship between family building and upward mobility. Typically this relationship is analyzed for women only, while we include men as well. With new patterns of intimate partnerships and non-traditional families, on the one hand, and a changing labor market, on the other hand, new assertions about their connection have emerged. Using SOEP-data, the possible ...

Essays on residential trajectories and social ties in the stage of early adulthood (Dissertation)

This PhD thesis tackles from an empirical and quantitative perspective the influence of social ties on geographical mobility behaviour and decision-making. The dissertation is composed of three lines of research all framed in Life Course theory and taking advantage of Event-History techniques to analyze individual residential biographies of young adults. The first essay deals about the influence of ...