Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Measuring Renewable Energy Externalities: Evidence from Subjective Well-Being Data

Electricity from renewable sources avoids disadvantages of conventional power generation but often meets with local resistance. We use 324,763 observations on the subjective well-being of 46,678 individuals in Germany, 1994–2012, for identifying and valuing the local externalities from solar, wind, and biomass plants in respondents’ postcode district and adjacent postcode districts. We find significant ...

Measuring impacts of extreme weather events using the life satisfaction approach

Extreme weather events cause harm among the aggrieved party that often goes beyond material damages. This paper studies the impact of extreme weather events on measures of self-reported life satisfaction. Focusing on Germany, we use representative panel data for 2000–2011 to study the effect of seven storm & hail events and five floods on subjective well-being in the affected NUTS 3 regions. Our ...

Consumer’ Risk Attitude based Personalisation for Content Delivery

One of the challenges that mobile services face is the high cost of data delivery over cellular networks. This problem is further aggravated with the use of multimedia type content that can lead to congestion and higher bills. Although higher cost might not be a problem for everyone, there are people who would not like to pay that much. This paper proposes delivering personalized content that is cost ...

Mums and their Sons, Dads and their Daughters: Panel Data Evidence of Interdependent Marginal Utilities across 14 EU Countries

Asymptotic income distribution in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): Income inequality and Darwinian fitness

In this paper, the relation between income inequality and population growth is analized from a Darwinian perspective. A Markov chain population growth model is presented and estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We estimate both population growth rates and steady-state income distribution for males and females. The results are compatible with the traditional age-based population ...

Pension Incomes in the European Union: Policy Reform Strategies in Comparative Perspective

This paper considers the effects on current pensioner incomes of reforms designed to improve the long-term sustainability of public pension systems in the European Union. We use EUROMOD to simulate a set of common illustrative reforms for four countries selected on the basis of their diverse pension systems and patterns of poverty among the elderly: Denmark, Germany, Italy and the UK. The variations ...

Educational inequalities in subjective health in Germany from 1994 to 2014: a trend analysis using the German Socio-Economic Panel study (GSOEP)

Introduction: As trend studies have shown, health inequalities by income and occupation have widened or remained stable. However, research on time trends in educational inequalities in health in Germany is scarce. The aim of this study is to analyse how educational inequalities in health evolved over a period of 21 years in the middle-aged population in Germany, and whether the trends differ by gender. ...

Economic analysis of migration flows to Germany focusing on Spanish emigrants

This essay economically analyses the different international immigration flows Germany has experienced (with a special emphasis on Spanish population) since the end of World War II: guest workers period and post-financial crisis. Both waves are characterized by the contrasting educational level required by German employers according to the labor market needs. However, the language skills appear to ...

Bootstrapping the LIS: Statistical Inference and Patterns of Inequality in the Global North

Statistical Inference for Measures of Inequality With a Cross-National Bootstrap Application