Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Assessing the spatial scale of context effects: The example of neighbourhoods’ educational composition and its relevance for individual aspirations

The neighbourhood environment has repeatedly proven to be a relevant context for central aspects of individuals’ lives, such as educational attainment. The conventional approach of measuring neighbourhood characteristics within disjunct geographical units fixed at a particular scale is less suitable for representing the characteristics of individual action spaces in everyday activities and for detecting ...

Ist der Wohnungsbau auf dem richtigen Weg? Aktuelle Ergebnisse des IW-Wohnungsbedarfsmodells

The impact of technological change on survey nonresponse and measurement

This dissertation addresses the imbalance between technological advancements and human adaptation to technology in the context of survey research by raising the question of whether survey research is behind or too far ahead of their respondents. Hence, the four papers that constitute this dissertation deal with respondents' ability to use technology and how respondents' technological abilities ...

Household decision making on commuting and the commuting paradox

This paper explores the commuting paradox in the context of two-partner households by estimating the relationship between the subjective well-being of spouses and their commuting distances. Some of the former literature has found evidence that individuals are not fully compensated for changes in commuting (the commuting paradox). We study unitary, cooperative, and non-cooperative decision-making models ...

Pathways between Socioeconomic Status and Health: Does Health Selection or Social Causation Dominate in Europe?

Health differences which correspond to socioeconomic status (SES) can be attributed to three causal mechanisms: SES affects health (social causation), health affects SES (health selection), and common background factors influence both SES and health (indirect selection). Using retrospective survey data from 10 European countries (SHARELIFE, n = 20,227) and structural equation models in a cross-lagged ...

The Reciprocal Relationship between Material Factors and Health in the Life Course: Evidence from SHARE and ELSA

The widely established health differences between people with greater economic resources and those with fewer resources can be attributed to both social causation (material factors affecting health) and health selection (health affecting material wealth). Each of these pathways may have different intensities at different ages, because the sensitivity of health to a lack of material wealth and the degree ...

Dimensions of Social Stratification and Their Relation to Mortality: A Comparison Across Gender and Life Course Periods in Finland

Differences in mortality between groups with different socioeconomic positions (SEP) are well-established, but the relative contribution of different SEP measures is unclear. This study compares the correlation between three SEP dimensions and mortality, and investigates differences between gender and age groups (35–59 vs. 60–84). We use an 11% random sample with an 80% oversample of deaths from the ...

Einstellungen zur Demokratie in Deutschland und im internationalen Vergleich

Derzeit wird häufig eine Krise der Demokratie diagnostiziert. In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir einerseits mit Daten des Politbarometers die Zustimmung zur Demokratie als Herrschaftsform in Deutschland seit den 1970er Jahren. Andererseits stellen wir vergleichend fest, was Bürger unterschiedlicher Regionen dieser Welt als zur Demokratie zugehörig verstehen. Hierfür stützen wir uns auf die Daten des ...

Arbeitsmarktpotenzial, Qualifikationsniveau, berufliche Perspektiven Geflüchteter

The Accumulation of Wealth in Marriage: Over-Time Change and Within-Couple Inequalities

This study examines the accumulation of personal wealth of husbands and wives and investigates the development of within-couple wealth inequalities over time in marriage. Going beyond previous research that mostly studied the marriage wealth premium using household-level wealth data and that conceptualized marriage as an instantaneous transition with uniform consequences over time, we argue that entry ...