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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
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...
06.05.2026| Roy Kouwenberg, Mahidol University
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
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!
06.05.2026| Roy Kouwenberg, Mahidol University
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
34 (2026), 101912, 14 S.
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Recic, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and, most recently, Ukraine. Germany has become a primary destination for refugees within the European Union and one of the largest among the OECD countries. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, ...
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European Sociological Review
42 (2026), 1, S. 146–163
| Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Nina Rother, Sabine Zinn, Elisabeth Liebau, Wenke Gider, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Manuel Siegert
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper outlines two studies on education bias in German probability-based surveys. Study 1 reviews data from 67 surveys across 19 survey programs conducted in Germany from 2000 to 2023. We found a consistent underrepresentation of individuals with a low level of formal education. We also found that the transition to self-administered modes due to rising survey costs may exacerbate this bias in ...
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International Journal of Social Research Methodology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2025-06-11]
| Annika Stein, Tobias Gummer, Elias Naumann, Björn Rohr, Henning Silber, Roman Auriga, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann, Michael Blohm, Carina Cornesse, Pablo Christmann, Mustafa Coban, Jean Philippe Décieux, Britta Gauly, Caroline Hahn, Susanne Helmschrott, Oshrat Hochman, Johannes Lemcke, Dörte Naber, Steffen Pötzschke, Joss Roßmann, Jan-Lucas Schanze, Tobias Schmidt, Silke L. Schneider, Heike Spangenberg, Tobias Rettig, Mark Trappmann, Michael Weinhardt, Bernd Weiß
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
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 ...
In:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-01-08]
| Michael D. Krämer, Bernd Schaefer, Yannick Roos, David Richter, Cornelia Wrzus
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
Vom 8. bis 9. Juli 2026 findet die 16. Internationale SOEP-Nutzenden-konferenz in Berlin statt. Ab sofort rufen wir zu Einreichungen von Beiträgen auf. SOEP-Forscher*innen aller Disziplinen sind eingeladen, sich mit einem Abstract zu bewerben. Besonders willkommen sind Beiträge, die sich mit Metawissenschaft, Robustheit, Replizierbarkeit, Reproduzierbarkeit und offener Wissenschaft befassen. Dazu gehören ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Levent Neyse
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
In March/April 2026 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation.
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17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
Im März und April 2026 kehrt unsere Online-Seminarreihe "SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch" zurück. Der Workshop bietet eine umfassende, praxisnahe Einführung in die Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Die Teilnehmenden lernen den Inhalt der Studie, die Datenstruktur, die Stichprobenauswahl und die Gewichtungsstrategie kennen und erhalten einen Überblick über die Studiendokumentation.
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17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
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 ...
17.02.2026| Janina Britzke, Levent Neyse