Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Estimating the demand for health care with panel data: a semiparametric Bayesian approach

The Causal Effect of Overqualification on Earnings: Evidence from a Bayesian Approach

European mothers' time spent looking after children - Differences and similarities across nine countries

Heterogeneous returns to personality: the role of occupational choice

We analyze the role of personality in occupational choice and wages using data from Germany for the years 1992 to 2009. Characterizing personality by use of seven complementary measures (Big Five personality traits, locus of control, and a measure of reciprocity), the empirical findings show that personal characteristics are important determinants of occupational choice. Associated with that, identical ...

Researchers Guide to Using the British Household Panel Survey and Other International, Longitudinal Datasets

Child Poverty in Wealthy Countries - Review of 'Child Well-Being, Child Poverty and Child Policy in Modern Nations' by Vleminckx/Smeeding and 'The Dynamics of Child Poverty in Industrialized Countries' by Bradbury et al.

Marriage, Gender, and Class: The Effects of Partner Resources on Unemployment Exit in Germany

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we find that cohabitation accelerates re-employment, whereas marriage increases the prospect of re-employment only for men. More specifically, the partner's labor market resources facilitate re-employment. Although partner income has no effect in absolute terms, unemployed men and women who were formerly minor earners refrain from re-entering ...

The Rich Demystified. A Reply to Bach, Corneo, and Steiner

The Legacy of Surveillance: An Explanation for Social Capital Erosion and the Persistent Economic Disparity between East and West Germany

This paper presents an exemplary case of social capital destruction through state action. We investigate the patterns of economic backwardness in East Germany and put forward a formal model and empirical evidence in favor of an intuitive yet novel conjecture: the differences in the scale and depth of state security penetration of people's private lives as well as of the institutions of state and ...

Language Barriers during the Fieldwork of the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany

The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees is one of the first large-scale quantitative surveys in Germany focusing on refugees exclusively. It is able to provide valuable insights on the recent cohort of refugees who arrived in Germany as of the year 2013. However, due to the fact that most respondents of the target population are not proficient in German, the research partners who conducted the survey ...