Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Class origin, intergenerational transfers, and the gender wealth gap

This study pursues two objectives: First, to describe how gender disparities in wealth levels vary by parental class and second, to examine the contribution of the gendered allocation of parental wealth to these differences. It thereby sheds light on the interplay between family background and gender in shaping wealth inequality. Using representative survey data from Germany, I find pronounced absolute ...

Differences in health related quality of life among older migrants and nonmigrants in India

Increasing age with migration status might have a double risk of vulnerability to poor health outcomes. There is a lack of population-based studies on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of older migrants in India. This study compares the HRQoL between older migrants and non-migrant populations in India and examines the role of migration-related factors. The Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) ...

Disentangling the (Long-Term) Effects of Fixed-Term Employment on Well-Being from a Country-Comparative and Household-Integrative Perspective

This cumulative thesis raises the overarching research question: How does fixed-term employment affect well-being? Three smaller, more specific research questions emerge from this primary research question. First, what are the short- and long-term effects of fixed-term employment for the well-being of individuals and couples? Second, what are the mechanisms explaining the effects of fixed-term employment ...

Does the Gender Equality Paradox in Personality Manifest at the Within-country Regional Level? Insights from Germany, Russia, and the United States

Objective: The aim of this study was to contribute to the understanding of the gender equality paradox by examining within-country variation in the size of the gender/sex gap in the Five-Factor Model (FFM) personality traits within three geographically large and socially diverse countries and to explore whether gender/sex differences in personality trait scores across regions in these countries were ...

Employment in Germany 1984 to 2019: Between stability and change

Estimation of Linear Models from Coarsened Observations: A Method of Moments Approach

In the last few decades, the study of ordinal data in which the variable of interest is not exactly observed but only known to be in a specific ordinal category has become important. In Psychometrics such variables are analysed under the heading of item response models (IRM). In Econometrics, subjective well-being (SWB) and self-assessed health (SAH) studies, and in marketing research, Ordered Probit, ...

Exploring integration and migration dynamics: the research potentials of a large-scale longitudinal household study of refugees in Germany

Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and, most recently, Ukraine. Germany has become a primary destination for refugees within the European Union and one of the largest among the OECD countries. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, ...

Fieldwork Monitoring in Practice: Insights from 17 Large-scale Social Science Surveys in Germany

This study provides a synopsis of the current fieldwork monitoring practices of large-scale surveys in Germany. Based on the results of a standardized questionnaire, the study summarizes fieldwork monitoring indicators used and fieldwork measures carried out by 17 large-scale social sciences surveys in Germany. Our descriptive results reveal that a common set of fieldwork indicators and measures exist ...

From Concurrent to Push-To-Web Mixed-Mode: Experimental Design Change in the German Social Cohesion Panel

Research shows that concurrent and sequential self-administered mixed-mode designs both have advantages and disadvantages in terms of panel survey recruitment and maintenance. Since concurrent mixed-mode designs usually achieve higher initial response rates at lower bias than sequential mixed mode designs, the former may be ideal for panel recruitment. However, concurrent designs produce a high share ...

Gender Effect on relative concerns

This thesis investigates whether there is a gender difference on the relative income effect, evaluated using subjective well-being data as a proxy for individual utility. The data set we use is a cross section of SOEP (the Socio-Economic Panel) of Germany collected during the last decade (2010-2019). We estimate subjective well-being regressions in which we control for the absolute level of income, ...