Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

The impact of the abolition of compulsory service on life satisfaction

Life satisfaction is arguably the ultimate goal of individual actions. We use the abolition of compulsory military and civil service in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify effects of institutionalized career disruptions on life satisfaction. We expect the effect to differ between young men according to their current situation in the transition into the labor market. Tracing back their ...

Minority Salience and Political Extremism

This paper studies electoral effects of exposure to religious minorities in the context of Muslim communities in Germany. Using unique data on mosques' construction and election results across municipalities over the period 1980-2013, we find that the presence of a mosque increases political extremism. To establish causality, we exploit arguably exogenous variation in the distance of the election ...

Sportlich aktives Altern - eine Frage des Geschlechts?

From Green Users to Green Voters

We study the effect of the diffusion of photovoltaic (PV) systems on the fraction of votes obtained by the German Green Party in federal elections. Using both regional and household survey data, we show that households that adopted PV systems became more supportive of the Green Party. We estimate that the adoption of domestic PV systems led to 25 percent of the increment in green votes between 1998 ...

Commission Staff Working Paper "Draft Joint Inclusion Report" - Statistical Annex (COM(2003)773 final)

Selbstproduktivität in der frühen Kindheit – Eine empirische Analyse mit Berücksichtigung von Geschwistereffekten

Self-productivity is a crucial feature in the process of skill formation. It means that skills developed in previous stages enhance the development of skills during later stages. This paper presents an empirical investigation of self-productivity in early childhood in Germany. The data are drawn from the mother-child questionnaire of the German Socio-Economic Panel for the birth cohorts 2002–2008. ...

Nicht-kognitive Fähigkeiten senken das Risiko des Bildungsabbruchs

Noncognitive Skills, Internet Use and Educational Dropout

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the years 2000 to 2006 we analyze the determinants and labor market effects of educational dropout. In addition to classical variables like family background and occupation, we examine noncognitive skills and Internet use. Noncognitive skills and Internet availability at home are negatively associated with the probability of becoming an educational ...

Noncognitive Skills, School Achievements and Educational Dropout

We analyse the determinants of dropout from secondary and vocational education in Germany using data from the Socio-Economic Panel from 2000 to 2007. In addition to the role of classical variables like family background and school achievements, we examine the effect of noncognitive skills. Both, better school grades and higher noncognitive skills reduce the risk to become an educational dropout. The ...

Maternal employment and child care decision

When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. We provide first evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use addressing the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This endogeneity has often been neglected in ...