Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Which Progress for Poverty Studies Can We Expect from New Large Data Sources?

Positional income concerns and personality: evidence from Germany

This paper presents detailed evidence about who compares to whom in terms of relative income. We rely on representative survey data on the importance of income comparisons vis-a-vis seven reference groups, allowing us to exploit within-subject heterogeneity. We explore the prevalence and determinants of positional income concerns, investigating the role of personality and economic preferences. Our ...

Overconfidence over the lifespan: Evidence from Germany

This paper investigates if and how overconfidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age profiles of a novel continuous overconfidence measure and the probability of being overconfident, conditioning on personality traits (including the Big 5 and optimism), economic preferences, cognitive ability, and the individual’s socio-economic status. Our empirical work relies ...

Time preferences and political regimes: Evidence from reunified Germany

We use the separation and later reunification of Germany after World War II to show that a political regime shapes time preferences of its residents. Using two identification strategies, we find that former residents of the German Democratic Republic exhibit a significantly less pronounced present bias when compared to former residents of the Federal Republic of Germany, whereas measures of patience are ...

Biography and Life History Data in the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP, v26, 1984-2009): (SOEP, v26, 1984-2009)

SIR and the GERMAN SOCIO-ECONOMIC PANEL STUDY (SOEP)

Frühjahrsseminar 1999 - Analysis of Time Dependent Data - Introduction to GSOEP (22.2.-26.2.99)

Immigrants in Two Modern Nations - Characteristics of the Foreign and Native Born Populations in Germany and the United States

Income Inequality and Poverty Dynamics in Poland and East-Germany before and under Transition

Ex Post Inequality of Opportunity Comparisons

In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing criteria; then we propose some scalar measures. We show that our ex post criteria are mostly obtained from "seemingly" ...