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This paper investigates child poverty in Germany through a multidimensional lens, combining Sen?s Capability Approach and Bourdieu?s Capital Theory to develop a tailored Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for children aged 11?15 and youth aged 17. Drawing on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP v38, 2021), this study identifies key patterns of multidimensional deprivation among children ...
In:
Journal of Youth Studies
(online first) (2026), 1–24
| Charlotte Margarete Jost, Zina Nimeh
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In this study, we examine the relationship between personality traits, captured by risk tolerance and the Big Five traits, and firm size, as measured by the number of employees. We show that the personality of entrepreneurs matters for the size of their firm they operate. We use a novel add-on to the German Socio-Economic Panel that includes a sub-sample of owner-managers running larger firms. High ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2026,
(DIW Discussion Papers 2173)
| Berfing Kardaslar, Alexander S. Kritikos, Lukas Menkhoff
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Aims: This study investigates how continuous exposure to psychosocial and material factors influences self-rated health (SRH) trajectories in different income groups, uniquely contrasting two mechanisms from a life course perspective: accumulation, where disadvantages intensify with longer exposure, and adaptation, where individuals adjust to adverse conditions.Methods: Based on the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
(2026),
| Anja Knöchelmann, Tobias Rähse, Matthias Richter
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This study investigates the role of engaging in physical leisure activities in facilitating refugees? structural integration through enhancing their social capital, destination-language proficiency, and health. The physical fitness gained from such activities can also be crucial for securing physically demanding jobs. As employment significantly influences refugees? social integration, this research ...
In:
European Journal for Sport and Society
(2026), 1–22
| Jana Kuhlemann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Markus M. Grabka, Alexander Kritikos, Stefan Liebig, Martina Maas, Wenzel Matiaske, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Isabella Retter, Torben Dall Schmidt, Juliane Zenker
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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
In:
PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke
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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
In:
PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we estimate how having children affects parents’ participation in arts, high- and lowbrow cultural activities, and sports. Identification combines three complementary, well-established strategies: (i) an event-study design around first births; (ii) twin births as exogenous shocks to second and third births; and (iii) sex-composition ...
In:
Journal of Cultural Economics
(2026),
| Hendrik Sonnabend, Matthias Westphal
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The construction and use of living space require substantial amounts of energy and resources, and generate Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Historically, the increase in total living space has largely offset improvements in building shell efficiency and heating technologies. Average per-capita space continuously rises due to developments such as smaller household sizes, a preference for single-family ...
In:
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment
(2026),
| Johannes Thema, Luisa Cordroch, Georg Graser, Alexander Kling, Frauke Wiese