Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Family and Politics: Does Parental Unemployment Cause Right-Wing Extremism?

Schooling and Citizenship: Evidence from Compulsory Schooling Reforms

Parental unemployment and young people's extreme right-wing party affinity: evidence from panel data

The paper investigates the extent to which parental unemployment affects young people's far right-wing party affinity. Cross-sectional estimates from the German Socio-Economic Panel show a positive relationship between growing up with unemployed parents and support for the extreme right. The paper uses differences in parental unemployment experience during childhood across siblings to investigate ...

The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) as Reference Data Set

This paper discusses how household panels in general - and the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in particular - can serve as reference data for researchers collecting datasets that do not represent the full universe of the population of interest (e.g., through clinical trials, intervention studies, laboratory and behavioural experiments, and cohort studies). We first discuss potential benefits of ...

Innovative Methods Within the Context of Secondary Data: Examples from Household Panel Surveys

Experiments, Surveys and the Use of Representative Samples as Reference Data

During the last two decades, laboratory experiments have come into increasing prominence and constitute a popular method of research to examine behavioral outcomes and social preferences. However, it has been debated whether results from these experiments can be extrapolated to the real world and whether, for example, sample selection into the experiment might constitute a major shortcoming of this ...

Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution

This paper analyzes the extent to which intergenerational upward and downward mobility in earnings are related to individuals’ preferences for redistribution. A novel survey question from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study—whether the taxes paid by unskilled workers are too high, adequate or too low—are used to elicit attitudes toward redistribution. Intergenerational mobility with regard to long-term ...

An Empirical Analysis of Income Taxation and Labor Supply in Germany

Estimating a Dynamic Model of Household Choices in the Presence of Income Taxation

From a conservative to a liberal welfare state: Decomposing changes in income-related health inequalities in Germany, 1994-2011

Individual socio-economic status and the respective socio-economic and political contexts are both important determinants of health. Welfare regimes may be linked with health and health inequalities through two potential pathways: first, they may influence the associations between socio-economic status and health. Second, they may influence the income-related distributions of socio-economic determinants ...