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This paper examines the possible spillover effects of parental unemployment on the subjective well-being of 12- to 21-year-old children. Using German panel data (SOEP), we show that unemployment of fathers and mothers is negatively associated with their children’s life satisfaction. When controlling for time-invariant individual heterogeneity, our results suggest that maternal unemployment has adverse ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(online first) (2025),
| Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe, Christine Lücke
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This paper aims to understand the health effects of energy poverty in Germany using SOEP panel data from 2010 to 2020. Linear probability and fixed effects ordered logit models reveal a consistently negative relationship of three expenditures-based energy poverty indicators with general health: the odds ratio of being in better health decreases between about 6 % and 8 %. This association is stronger ...
In:
Energy Economics
145 (2025), 108376
| Martin Buchner, Miriam Rehm
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We analyse how educational aspirations and intentions of adult refugees in Germany are shaped by their foreign educational credentials and their previous occupational status. Because the allocation of medium-skilled jobs on the German labour market heavily relies on a variety of credentials, unlike in the countries of origin, where skills are usually acquired on the job but not formally certified, ...
In:
European Sociological Review
41 (2025), 4, 516-537
| Marvin Bürmann, Dorian Tsolak
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While the body of literature on the non-take-up of public aid has grown substantially in recent years, a notable gap remains in the literature of non-take-up rates for student aid programs, where research is still extremely limited. This paper examines the non-take-up rate of Germany's federal student aid program BAföG by creating a microsimulation based on data from the German Socio-Economic ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1226)
| Alexander Eriksson Byström, María Sól Antonsdóttir
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In this study, we contribute to the literature about the effects of improving access to citizenship on integration outcomes. Hereby, we exploit exogenous variation from two citizenship reforms in Germany to estimate the effects of residency requirements on perceived discrimination, which is strongly linked to individual well-being, sense of belonging, and migration desires and decisions. We find that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1223)
| Adriana R. Cardozo, Christopher Prömel
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Do unemployed people benefit from more free time, while consumption is the sole motive for employed people to accept a life with less available time? Does this apply equally to men and women? To inform ongoing policy debates on how to address the problem of unemployment, we provide a comprehensive discussion of the traditionally assumed trade-off between income and leisure in labor supply decisions, ...
In:
European Economic Review
171 (2025), 104879
| Adrian Chadi, Clemens Hetschko
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While predictive modeling for unit nonresponse in panel surveys has been explored in variouscontexts, it is still under-researched how practitioners can best adopt these techniques. Currently, practitioners need to wait until they accumulate enough data in their panel to train and evaluate their own modeling options. This paper presents a novel “cross-training” technique in which we show that the indicators ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
19 (2025), 2, 123-137
| John Collins, Christoph Kern
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This study investigated how changing the mode of incentive administration between two panel waves, spaced six months apart, affected longitudinal survey response. A split-ballot incentive experiment was used to compare shifting from an unconditional pre-paid incentive mode in the first wave to a conditional post-paid mode in the second wave, versus consistently using a conditional post-paid mode across ...
In:
Survey Research Methods
19 (2025), 2, 223-239
| Jean Philippe Décieux, Sabine Zinn, Andreas Ette
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This paper investigates the impact of severe health shocks on labor supply decisions and domestic production within German households. We draw from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), focusing on individuals aged 25 to 55 at the time of their first observed health shock. After the health shock, we find that affected individuals suffer a persistent loss in annual gross labor income of around 4,000 ...
In:
Journal of Health Economics
101 (2025), 102992
| Giovanni Di Meo, Onur Eryilmaz
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Women's earnings inequality persists, despite policy efforts to reduce discrimination and gender bias. Gender gaps in earnings, however, are a function of hours worked as well as wage rates, and reflect gendered short and long work hour patterns. Within households, how partners exchange time is a crucial driver of hours worked yet this is rarely incorporated into analysis of gender earning gaps. ...
In:
Social Indicators Research
179 (2025), 2, 1073-1100
| Tinh Doan, Liana Leach, Lyndall Strazdins