Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel

In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...

Honey, I got fired! A longitudinal dyadic analysis of the effect of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples

Previous research on unemployment and life satisfaction has focused on the effects of unemployment on individuals but neglected the effects on their partners. In the present study, we used dyadic multilevel models to analyze longitudinal data from 2,973 couples selected from a German representative panel study to examine the effects of unemployment on life satisfaction in couples over several years. ...

Men and islands: Dealing with the family in empirical labor economics

The Patterns of Convergence of Eastern German Labor Markets to Western Standards Post-Unification

Returns to education: not until 2005 did East German men do as well as Westeners, but Eastern women did better

Effects of Continuous Off-the-job Training in East Germany after Unification: Preliminary Results of an Evaluation of the Effects for Individual Workers

Some Specification Tests for Probit Models Estimated on Panel Data

Long work hours of mothers and fathers are linked to increased risk for overweight and obesity among preschool children: longitudinal evidence from Germany

Background Most existing studies on maternal employment and childhood overweight/obesity are from the USA. They are predominantly cross-sectional and show a consistent linear association between the two. Less is known about the joint impact of fathers’ and mothers’ work hours on childhood overweight and obesity.Objectives To examine the impact of maternal and paternal work hours on overweight/obesity ...

Fathers’ Commute to Work and Children’s Social and Emotional Well-Being in Germany

Using the German Socio-Economic Panel study, we addressed the main question: Is fathers’ commute to work associated with increases in child social and emotional well-being as measured in Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires? If so, would this association be mediated by reduced time spent with children or moderated by change in family income due to commuting? The findings show that fathers’ daily ...

Long-Term Effectiveness of a Stress Management Intervention at Work: a 9-Year Follow-Up Study Based on a Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial in Male Managers

Objective: Short- and medium- term effectiveness (up to 3 years) of individual level stress management interventions (SMI) in the workplace were demonstrated, yet long-term effectiveness remains unexplored. We therefore aimed to address this research gap. Methods: 94 male middle managers participated in a randomized wait-list controlled trial between 2006 and 2008, and in a post-trial-follow-up survey ...