Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Unemployment, recall error, and life satisfaction

The Welfare Costs of Addiction

The Geographic Mobility of Dual-Earner Couples: Does Gender Ideology Matter?

Retrospective Error in SOEP Calendar Data: The Case of Unemployment

Gender ideology, division of housework, and the geographic mobility of families

Health insurance status and physician-induced demand for medical services in Germany: New evidence from combined district and individual level data

Germany is one of the few OECD countries with a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both types of insurance provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured patients than for statutorily insured patients. This price variation creates incentives to induce demand primarily among the privately ...

Unemployment, life satisfaction and retrospective error

Self-assessed health, reference levels, and mortality

the article studies the relationship between self-assessed health (SAH) and subsequent mortality in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Specifically, I examine whether socio-economic characteristics of respondents have an effect on mortality, conditional on SAH. Such conditional effects are shown to exist for various covariates, including age, income and wealth. These findings question the comparability ...

Health Insurance Status and Physician Behavior in Germany

Germany has a two-tier system of statutory and primary private health insurance. Both insurance types provide fee-for-service insurance, but chargeable fees for identical services are more than twice as large for privately insured as for statutorily insured patients. Using German SOEP 2002 data, I analyze the effect of insurance status on the insured's number of doctor visits. Conditional on health, ...

Provision for Old Age - National and International Survey Data to Support Research and Policy on Aging

This report reviews recent trends in the collection of multidisciplinary and longitudinal data in the area of aging research, both in Germany and internationally. It also discusses important developments such as linkage with administrative records, the inclusion of health measurements and biomarkers, and the inclusion of populations in institutions, particularly nursing homes.