Publikationen mit SOEP-Daten: SOEPlit

Sind Indikatoren zur Lebensqualität und zur Lebenszufriedenheit als politische Zielgrößen sinnvoll?

We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using objective health measures.

Statistical Problems and Solutions in Onomastic Research – Exemplified by a Comparison of Given Name Distributions in Germany throughout the 20th Century

The German Socio Economic Panel Study (SOEP) offers the rare opportunity to look at patterns of given names amongst a representative sample of more than 50,000 people born since 1900. This article develops an exemplary picture of typical frequency distributions for given names and their developments over time. In this paper, we first discuss the advantages and limitations of various data bases which ...

Armut und Reichtum – Öffentliche Wahrnehmung und wissenschaftliche Analyse 1945 bis heute

Nachdem die bitteren Notlagen des Zweiten Weltkriegs überwunden waren, setzte in Westdeutschland nach der Währungsreform 1948 eine wirtschaftliche Aufwärtsentwicklung ein. Das sogenannte Wirtschaftswunder ließ Einkommen, Vermögen und Wohlstand anwachsen. Dieses Wohlstandswachstum kam zunächst auch dem Lebensstandard wirtschaftlich eher schwacher Schichten zugute. Gleichwohl hatte das viel gepriesene ...

Armut in der Wohlstandsgesellschaft - Statement zur Pressekonferenz, 6. März 2006, Berlin

Armut in der Wohlstandsgesellschaft - Thesenpapier zur Pressekonferenz 6. März 2006, Berlin

Ein Mindestlohn in Deutschland? Contra

Reciprocal Associations between Parenting Challenges and Parents’ Personality Development in Young and Middle Adulthood

Having children affects many aspects of people’s lives. However, it remains unclear to what degree the challenges that come along with having children are associated with parents’ personality development. We addressed this question in two studies by investigating the relationship between parenting challenges and personality development in mothers of newborns (Study 1, N = 556) and the reciprocal associations ...

Developmental Tasks as a Framework to Study Personality Development in Adulthood and Old Age

Research consistently shows that personality development is a lifelong phenomenon, with mean-level and rank-order changes occurring in all life phases. What happens during specific life phases that can explain these developmental patterns? In the present paper, we review literature linking personality development in different phases of adulthood to developmental tasks associated with these phases. ...

Survey to Reveal True Face of Chinese Society

Comparison of the effects of low childhood socioeconomic position and low adulthood socioeconomic position on self rated health in four European studies