Forschung SOEP: Survey-Methodologie und Data Science

Measuring Ambiguity Attitudes Reliably in Surveys

This seminar introduces ambiguity, explains why it matters in economics, and discusses how ambiguity attitudes are typically measured in empirical research. Ambiguity plays an important role in decision-making, as most situations in life involve unknown outcomes or probabilities. However, people’s attitudes toward ambiguity are hard to measure precisely, as standard measures based on incentivized...

Zuverlässige Erfassung der Einstellung gegenüber Mehrdeutigkeit in Umfragen

Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: “Measuring Ambiguity Attitudes Reliably in Surveys”. Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt. Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!

Labor Market Entry Dynamics and Mental Health Outcomes among Young People with and without Disability

Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...

Publishing Fine-Grained Standardized Metadata: Lessons Learned from Three Research Data Centers

FAIRness of research data, meaning that data are managed according to the principles of being Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable, has become a ubiquitous requirement in research data policies as well as in general guidelines for research data management. Meeting this requirement largely depends on the availability of rich and standardized DDI metadata—based on the Data Documentation ...

Der Scientific Use File der Welle 2 des German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) ist verfügbar!

Das SCP ist eine Längsschnittstudie, die vielfältige Aspekte des gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalts in Deutschland erfasst. Es basiert auf einer repräsentativen Bevölkerungsstichprobe aus deutschen Einwohnermelderegistern und wurde 2021 zum ersten Mal durchgeführt (n=17.027). Neben den zufällig ausgewählten Ankerpersonen richtet sich die jährliche Befragung auch an deren erwachsene Haushaltsmitglieder. ...

Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales

Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...

Who stays? Tracking ultra-long-time participants in the SOEP

Wer bleibt? Nachverfolgung von Langzeitteilnehmenden im SOEP

Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: “Who stays? Tracking ultra-long-time participants in the SOEP”. Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.

The relationship between municipal investments and satisfaction with democracy and populist voting

Presentation of the work on the project

Historical Changes in Control Belief Trajectories

The present research examines whether and how well-documented historical changes in resource availability, social embedding, technology, and social norms also manifest in control beliefs—a key psychological marker of individual health and well-being. Drawing on longitudinal data from five waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel (N = 42,158) spanning over 20 years, we analyzed control belief trajectories ...