Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

How nuclear power hurts the Greens: Evidence from German nuclear power plants

What are the electoral consequences of nuclear energy for Green parties? Despite the centrality of nuclear opposition to Green party platforms, and the social movements that helped them emerge, little research has examined the electoral impact of this stance. Building on work on energy transitions and local political economy, we propose that the economic benefits of nuclear power can mitigate local ...

Socioeconomic Status and Well-being in Elementary School: An Evaluation of Different Indicators of Socioeconomic Status

Although socioeconomic status (SES) is related to students’ well-being, many studies consider only a single SES indicator and one dimension of well-being, providing an incomplete picture. The present study examined SES-related differences among a large sample of elementary school students in Germany. We employed multiple SES indicators, considered both cognitive and psychological dimensions of well-being, ...

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The impact of urban-rural residents’ life quality gap on the cultivated land transfer

Cultivated land transfer serves as an efficient way to mitigate the escalating issue of cultivated land abandonment due to labor migration driven by the urban-rural gap, while also ensuring national food security. Nevertheless, the impact of how urban-rural resident’ life quality gap (RLQG) affect cultivated land transfer decision-making remains unclear. This study developed a theoretical framework ...

Preference-Driven Contract Design: How Education Alters Risk, Patience, and Effort in Incentive Schemes

Performance-contingent pay raises productivity, yet in the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) only about 16% of workers report receiving performance pay, with the incidence being roughly seven percentage points higher among university graduates than among non-graduates. This coexistence of low aggregate take-up and a strong skill gradient is puzzling. This paper accounts for these twin facts with a ...

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 ...

LabFam Individual Biographies harmonised family and employment histories based on panel surveys

Reproducibility in social science is often hindered by inconsistent data preparation and limited transparency. The LabFam Individual Biographies (LIB) project addresses this challenge by providing open, cross-national harmonization of life-course histories from five long-running panels: Australia (HILDA), Germany (SOEP), Switzerland (SHP), the United Kingdom (BHPS/UKHLS), and the United States (PSID). ...

Affiliation motive and social interactions in people’s daily life: A temporal processes approach using ecological momentary assessment and mobile sensing

Individual differences in social traits such as the affiliation motive are closely linked to the formation and maintenance of social relationships. Most previous research focused on long-term characteristics or momentary assessments of social relationships (e.g., social network size, relationship quality), whereas theoretical accounts have emphasized the temporal dynamics, that is, how social interactions ...

Probing buccal-customized epigenetic clocks to investigate socioeconomic and health disparities

Epigenetic clocks are emerging as promising tools for examining social and health disparities. These measures are typically developed using blood DNA methylation (DNAm) data. Cheek swabs, being less invasive than blood collection, can be used to assay buccal DNAm. This study examines how buccal-originated epigenetic clocks relate to socioeconomic status (SES) and health, and compares these associations ...

Does having daughters affect political preferences? A high-powered meta-analysis of many surveys

This study examines whether having daughters affects political preferences and if effects vary across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preferences for gender equality ...