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SOEPpapers 804 / 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the distribution of the share of income earned ...
2015| Anna Wieber, Elke Holst
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SOEPpapers 738 / 2015
How socio-cultural contexts shape individual functioning is of prime interest for psychological inquiry. Secular increases favoring later-born cohorts in fluid intelligence measures are widely documented for young adults. In the current study, we quantify such trends in old age using data from highly comparable participants living in a narrowly defined geographical area and examine whether these trends ...
2015| Denis Gerstorf, Gizem Hülür, Johanna Drewelies, Peter Eibich, Sandra Duezel, Ilja Demuth, Paolo Ghisletta, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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SOEPpapers 708 / 2014
Dieses Papier charakterisiert die SOEP-Nutzer, beschreibt ihre Zufriedenheit mit dem SOEP-Service und untersucht ihre Nutzungsgewohnheiten bei der Arbeit mit den Daten. Die Untersuchungen bauen primär auf den Daten der SOEP-Nutzerbefragungen 2004, 2011, 2012 und 2013 auf. Ältere Nutzerbefragungen (in den 1980er und 1990er Jahren) werden kurz dokumentiert. Die Beschreibung der Nutzer konzentriert sich ...
2014| Marcel Hebing, Florian Griese, Janine Napieraj, Marius Pahl, Carolin Stolpe, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 666 / 2014
Up to now in the social sciences, what is known as citizen science—the involvement of interested citizens in scientific surveys—has been used relatively little as a method of empirical social research. While the “citizens’ dialogues” that are becoming more widespread in politics can be considered a kind of social scientific citizen science, the participants in these dialogues are not selected randomly ...
2014| Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Engelmann, Jan Goebel, Florian Griese, Marcel Hebing, Janine Napieraj, Marius Pahl, Carolin Stolpe, Monika Wimmer, Alexander Eickelpasch, Jürgen Schupp
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SOEPpapers 626 / 2013
The results of a resurvey of non-respondents to the SOEP study carried out in 2006 show that this special effort of reinterviewing was relatively ineffective in two respects. First, the rate of successful conversions of passive to active respondents was low (less than 20 percent). Second, the composition of the longitudinal file did not improve. The same groups that showed high dropout rates in the ...
2013| Jörg-Peter Schräpler, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 608 / 2013
Like many medical studies, the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE·II) is based on a non·random "convenience sample" of self·recruited participants. To study processes of selectivity in BASE·II, we used an identical questionnaire to compare BASE·II with a large, representative reference study, the German Socio·Economic Panel (SOEP), thereby allowing differences in characteristics of participants in BASE·II ...
2013| Denise Saßenroth, Martin Kroh, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 568 / 2013
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to 35. The socio-economic part of BASE-II, the so called SOEP-BASE, is conducted by the SOEP Group at the DIW ...
2013| Anke Böckenhoff, Denise Saßenroth, Martin Kroh, Thomas Siedler, Peter Eibich, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 546 / 2013
The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in relation to respondents to the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the survey year 2009 (2002 through 2012). ...
2013| Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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SOEPpapers 539 / 2013
We argue that entrepreneurial choice proceeds in at least in two steps, with vocational choice nearly always preceding choice of employment status, whether that be self-employment or dependent employment. Since the two decisions are interrelated, analysis of entrepreneurial choice as a single act may lead to inconsistent estimates of the factors that determine the decision to launch a business venture. ...
2013| Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner
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SOEPpapers 538 / 2013
It has widely been recognized that creativity plays an immense role not only for arts, sciences, and technology, but also for entrepreneurship, innovation, and thus, economic growth. We analyze the level and the determinants of self-employment in creative professions at the level of individuals. The analysis is based on the representative micro data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The findings ...
2013| Michael Fritsch, Alina Sorgner