SOEP User Conference 2026 - Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies that compare and/or combine different populations or samples, analyses, designs, methods, and time periods. In addition, we encourage submissions beyond this thematic focus, especially those making use of the longitudinal features of SOEP, as well as submissions on survey methodology and cross-national comparative analysis. Keynote speakers will be Wiebke Bleidorn from University of Zurich (Switzerland) and Thomas Dohmen from University of Bonn and Maastricht University (Germany/Netherlands). Please submit abstracts (up to 300 words) to soep2026@diw.de by February 28, 2026. For more information, please check our website.