Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Earnings Dynamics in the East German Transition Process

Earning Dynamics in the East German Transition Process

What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? - Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Happiness and altruism within the extended family

We propose a direct measure of altruism between parents and adult children, using survey data on happiness from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000–2004. The question of altruism within families has policy relevance, for example, to understand whether public transfers crowd out private ones. Previous empirical evidence, based on observed transfer behavior, has failed to establish a clear ...

Is Posner right? An empirical test of the Posner argument for transferring health spending from old women to old men

Posner (Aging and old age, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1995) proposes the redistribution of health spending from old women to old men to equalize life expectancy. His argument is based on the assumption that the woman’s utility is higher if her husband is alive. Using self-reported satisfaction measures from a long-running German panel survey, the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the present ...

How Income Inequality changed in Germany following Reunification: An empirical Analysis using Decomposable Inequality Measures

Trends in the Income Distribution of Unified Germany Analyzed by Decomposable Inequality Measures

Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being - Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Simulating German Income and Social Security Tax Payments Using the GSOEP