Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Financial Solidarity or Autonomy? How Gendered Wealth and Income Inequalities Influence Couples’ Money Management

It is well established that women have lower income and wealth levels than men. These inequalities are most pronounced within heterosexual couples and grow once partners get married and have children. Nevertheless, equality in controlling money within couples is highly valued and might ameliorate women’s disadvantages in income and wealth ownership. Previous research has focused on explaining gender ...

Even Now Women Focus on Family, Men on Work: An Analysis of Employment, Marital, and Reproductive Life-Course Typologies in Relation to Change in Health-Related Quality of Life

To a large extent health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a product of life-course experiences. Therefore, we examined employment, marital, and reproductive life-course typologies as predictors of HRQoL in women and men. To determine life course clusters, sequence and cluster analysis were performed on the annual (waves 1990–2019) employment, marital, and children in household states of the German ...

Politicians' Social Welfare Criteria: An Experiment with German Legislators

Much economic analysis derives policy recommendations based on social welfare criteria intended to model the preferences of a policy maker. Yet, little is known about policy maker’s normative views in a way amenable to this use. In a behavioral experiment, we elicit German legislators’ social welfare criteria unconfounded by political economy constraints. When resolving preference conflicts across ...

MINT-Herbstreport 2022: MINT sichert Zukunft (Gutachten für BDA, Gesamtmetall und MINT Zukunft schaffen)

Nach einem coronabedingtem Rückgang im Jahr 2020 ist die MINT-Lücke in den letzten zwei Jahren wieder deutlich angestiegen und zeigt hohe Engpässe auf. Im Oktober 2022 lagen in den MINT-Berufen insgesamt rund 502.200 zu besetzende Stellen vor.

Making Integration Work? Facilitating Access to Occupational Recognition and Immigrants’ Labor Market Performance

Diese Arbeit nutzt eine Reform, welche die Anerkennung ausländischer Berufsqualifikationen für Zuwanderer aus nicht-EU Staaten in Deutschland erleichterte. Die Untersuchung detaillierter administrativer Daten zur Sozialsicherung und Befragungsdaten mit Hilfe eines Difference-in-Difference Designs ergab, dass die Reform den Anteil der Zuwanderer aus nicht-EU Ländern mit einer Anerkennung ihrer Berufsqualifikation ...

Personality growth after relationship losses: Changes of perceived control in the years around separation, divorce, and the death of a partner

Background: Previous research suggests that romantic relationships play a crucial role for perceived control. However, we know surprisingly little about changes in perceived control before and after the end of romantic relationships. Methods: Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a nationally representative household panel study from Germany, we examined changes of perceived control ...

Climbing the Career Ladder Does Not Make You Happy: Well-being Changes in the Years Before and After Becoming a Leader

Subjective well-being tends to be higher in leaders vs. non-leaders. However, do these differences come from selection effects (e.g., because higher subjective well-being predisposes for occupational success) or from within-person well-being changes before and after becoming a leader? This question remains largely unresolved. Previous research suggests that becoming a leader might be a double-edged ...

Age-specific Effects of Early Daycare on Children's Health

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. In this study, I investigate the impact of a large daycare expansion in ...

Rentenversicherung: Umverteilung ist der Kern! (Kommentar)

Selbst wenn Privatschulen in der Nähe sind: Sozial benachteiligte Schüler*innen sind dort kaum vertreten

Die Zahl der Privatschüler*innen steigt in Deutschland stetig, insbesondere in Ostdeutschland. Besonders häufig kommen sie aus Haushalten mit hohem Einkommen und hohem Bildungsniveau. Dieser Wochenbericht untersucht, welche Rolle die räumliche Verteilung von Privatschulen für die Struktur der Schüler*innenschaft spielt. In einem ersten Schritt wird untersucht, in welchen Gegenden es Privatschulen gibt. ...