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A latent class growth model for migrants’ remittances: an application to the German Socio-Economic Panel

We propose a latent class mixture growth model with concomitant variables to study the time profiles of international remittances sent by first-generation migrants in Germany from 1996 to 2012. The latent class approach enables us to identify homogeneous subgroups of migrants associated with different trajectories for their remitting behaviour, which can be interpreted in the light of the theoretical ...

Personality Traits and Obesity

Objective: Previous studies investigating the association between body weight and personality traits have found mixed results. This paper uses a large data set and two different study designs (cross-sectional and longitudinal) to provide more consistent estimates of the effect of personality traits on obesity. Methods: The present study is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) ...

The relationship between age and subjective well-being: Estimating within and between effects simultaneously

In this paper, we employ a correlated random effects econometric framework to simultaneously estimate the within and between effects of age on subjective well-being based on longitudinal survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The proposed approach helps to explain differing findings on the relationship between age and subjective well-being reported in a series of studies based on ...

Do retirement savings increase in response to information about retirement and expected pensions?

How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2005 (with a phase-in period between 2002 and 2004), the German pension administration started to send out annual letters providing detailed and comprehensible information about the pension system and individual expected public pension payments. This reform ...

The German Federal Government’s 5th Report on Poverty and Wealth (Executive Summary

Assessing the distributional impact of "imputed rent" and "non-cash employee income" in microdata : Case studies based on EU-SILC (2004) and SOEP (2002)

SOEP-Core v34 – Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2017 : CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

SOEP-Core v33.1 – BIORESID: Variables on Occupancy and Second Residence

SOEP-Core v33.1 – BIOSOC: Retrospective Data on Youth and Socialization

SOEP-Core v34 – BIOAGE17: The Youth Questionnaire