Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Re-partnering and single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories

Objective: This study examines single mothers' mental health and life satisfaction trajectories around re-partnering transitions, and the driving factors of these associations. Background: Single mothers are a particularly disadvantaged group in terms of their mental health and life satisfaction. According to the resource model, re-partnering has a positive effect on these outcomes because it ...

Decomposing educational inequality in achievement test scores using ANOGI methodology

This paper addresses the influence of ethnic and gender disparities on educational outcomes and recognizes the significance of maternal education in shaping students' academic achievements. The study aims to evaluate the efficacy of policies aimed at integrating maternal involvement in education among 15-year-old students from OECD countries. Specifically, it investigates whether students' ...

Social Media: Population Favors Regulation—but Ban Only for Those up to the Age of 12

Social media usage by children and young people is an increasingly controversial topic. The focus is on risks, opportunities, and possible regulations. Politicians from all relevant parties are now open to a social media ban up to a certain age; the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs has set up a commission of experts. Based on a short survey in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), conducted in September ...

When are pupil absences most harmful for academic achievement?

How Behavior and Motivation Mediate the Impact of School Absences on Achievement

This study investigates the mediating role of psychosocial factors, including behaviors and motivations, in the association between school absences and academic achievement. Using comprehensive longitudinal data from England, linking National Pupil Database (NPD) school register data with Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) survey data (N=7,204), the analysis explores the impact of absences at ages 12/13 ...

The Minimum Wage in Germany: Institutional Setting and a Systematic Review of Key Findings

The introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015 aimed at improving the welfare of low-wage workers but was also accompanied by concerns about distortions in Europe’s largest economy. This paper provides a comprehensive survey of results from the evaluation of the German minimum wage by compiling recent descriptive evidence and a systematic literature review on causal effects through ...

Participation in German courses and language skills

Is the First Language a Resource, an Obstacle, or Irrelevant for Language Minority Students’ Education?

Successful integration into the education system is of major importance for the future prospects of immigrants and their children as well as for the social cohesion and viability of the receiving societies. Language is generally viewed as an important aspect of this integration. Whereas there is widespread agreement that the language of the residence country (L2) is crucial for students’ educational ...

How Do Immigrant-Origin and Native Voters Consume Political News Media During a National Election Campaign?

This is the first quantitative empirical contribution to examine how immigrant-origin voters use different types of political news media in the course of an election campaign. As this group of voters often has a lower average turnout than natives, it is surprising that we know little about its media usage behaviour. Using novel data from the IMGES II survey conducted during the 2021 German national ...

Detecting Corruption: Evidence from a World Bank project in Kenya

Corruption is a major problem in development aid, in part because areas with the greatest need for development assistance often have weak governance. In these environments, traditional anti-fraud measures such as audits or criminal enforcement are limited in their effectiveness. Moreover, aid organizations face incentives to downplay bad outcomes for fear of alienating donors, which has led to the ...