Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Aktive Lebenserwartung in der Bundesrepublik

Mit den Daten des Sozioökonomischen Panels (SOEP) und der Methode der Mehrzustands-Sterbetafel wird erstmals die aktive Lebenserwartung für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland berechnet. Mit Hilfe ereignisanalytischer Analysen werden Unterschiede in der Wirkung einzelner Einflussfaktoren auf Mortalität und Morbidität untersucht. Zu den Ergebnissen gehört, dass Männer durchschnittlich absolut weniger Lebensjahre ...

Einkommen, Gesundheit und Mortalität in Deutschland, Großbritannien und den USA

Aktive Lebenserwartung in Deutschland und in den USA: Kohortenbezogene Analysen auf Basis des Sozio-ökonomischen Panel und der Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Einkommen und Mortalität im Lebensverlauf

Bildungsexpansion und Lebenserwartung

Zur ökonomischen Mobilität von Individuen und Familien: Determinanten und Armutsrisiken

Different Contexts, Different Effects? Work Time and Mental Health in the United States and Germany

This paper takes a comparative approach to the topic of work time and health, asking whether weekly work hours matter for mental health. We hypothesize that these relationships differ within the United States and Germany, given the more regulated work time environments within Germany and the greater incentives to work long hours in the United States. We further hypothesize that German women will experience ...

Data in the Field of Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Present Situation, Improvements and Challenges

Over the last years, political and scientific debates have stressed the growing importance of adult education. Currently important research questions call not only for data sources that collect detailed information on adult education with repeated measurements and in different cohorts, but they should also include data on other life spheres such as education and working histories, partnership and household ...

Institutions, parental selection, and locus of control

Locus of control, that is, people's perception of how much influence they have over their lives, is an important predictor for economic outcomes - earnings, health and education, to name a few. This article uses difference-in-differences analysis to investigate the importance of the institutional environment for the development of locus of control, using the fall of the Berlin Wall as exogenous ...

You don't know what you've got till it's gone! Unemployment and intertemporal changes in self-reported life satisfaction

This paper uses concurrently and - for the first time - retrospectively reported life satisfaction from the 1984 to 1987 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel to study the importance of different comparison standards for the empirical correlation of unemployment and subjective life satisfaction. It is found that unemployed individuals do not only report significantly lower concurrent satisfaction, ...