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Publication
A recent SOEP study of more than 42,000 respondents by a research team led by Theresa M. Entringer shows that younger birth cohorts in Germany are more likely to believe that they can influence their lives and maintain this sense of control into older age. While differences between genders and income groups have narrowed, disparities between people in East and West Germany have widened. Major life ...
15.07.2026| Theresa M. Entringer
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Publication
A new analysis by Daniel Graeber, Ulrich Schmidt, Carsten Schröder, and Johannes Seebauer, based on SOEP data and regional variation in infection rates, shows that individual risk preferences remain largely stable despite rising financial worries and anxiety. The findings suggest that a pandemic primarily changes the immediate decision-making environment rather than individuals’ underlying preferences.
Graeber, ...
15.07.2026| Daniel Graeber, Carsten Schröder, Johannes Seebauer
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
Als Teil des SOEP-LEE2-Projekts veranstaltet AKempor (Arbeitskreis Empirische Personal- und Organisationsforschung) am 26. und 27. November einen Workshop im DIW Berlin, der Forschungsarbeiten zu den Themen Resilienz, Krisenreaktionen, digitaler Wandel und Cybersicherheit verbinden soll. Der Fokus wird auf empirischen Arbeiten mit Survey- und Linked-Data zu Unternehmen, Beschäftigten und Haushalten ...
14.07.2026| Carsten Schröder
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
As part of the SOEP-LEE2 project, AKempor (Working Group on Empirical Personnel and Organizational Research) will host a workshop at DIW Berlin on 26–27 November focusing on research related to resilience, crisis response, digital transformation, and cybersecurity.
The workshop emphasizes empirical research using survey and linked data on firms, employees, and households. New data resources from the ...
14.07.2026| Carsten Schröder
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
Forum4Mica is a platform where data users can ask questions about SOEP data and its generation and receive timely answers from relevant experts.
Do you have ideas on how the SOEP can be improved? Forum4MICA is now also available for your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement.
The platform provides a dynamic space for exchange where users can propose ideas for future data collection – such ...
14.07.2026
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
Forum4Mica is a platform where data users can ask questions about SOEP data and its generation and receive timely answers from relevant experts.
Do you have ideas on how the SOEP can be improved? Forum4MICA is now also available for your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvement.
The platform provides a dynamic space for exchange where users can propose ideas for future data collection – such ...
14.07.2026
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Publication
SOEP data users can now request the mighist (“migration history”) variable and its accompanying information variable mighist_info for SOEP-Core v41 by contacting soepmail@diw.de. Both variables will be included in the upcoming SOEP-Core v42 release.
By introducing mighist, SOEP adopts the migration history concept used in Germany’s Microcensus, improving comparability with official statistics and ...
14.07.2026| SOEP Community Management
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Publication
SOEP data users can now request access to the variable mighist (“migration history”) and its accompanying information variable mighist_info, based on SOEP-Core v41 data. To obtain the variables, please contact soepmail@diw.de.
The variables will be included as a standard component of the upcoming SOEP-Core v42 release and will no longer need to be ordered separately.
With mighist, SOEP adopts the ...
14.07.2026| SOEP Community Management
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Report
On July 8 and 9, 2026, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) welcomed approximately 90 researchers from Germany and abroad to its user conference in Berlin. Every two years, SOEP data users from various disciplines—including the social and economic sciences—meet to present their current research and network.
Just a few days earlier, the German Science Council had rated the SOEP’s application for strategic ...
14.07.2026| Verena Neumann
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Report
The implementation of municipal heat planning was the focus of the semi-annual meeting of the "Wärme-ZIEL" research project in Reppenstedt near Lüneburg on 5 June 2026. Representatives from science, municipalities and the energy industry discussed current challenges of the heating transition and discussed the next steps in the project. To kick things off, Claudia Kemfert gave an overview of the current ...
22.06.2026| Dana Kirchem, Caroline Stiel
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Personnel news
Gökhan Ider, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “The Conduct and Transmission of Macroeconomic Policy. Essays in Monetary, Fiscal and Financial Stability Policy” on June 19, 2026. He was supervised by Alexander Kriwoluzky and Malte Rieth. Congratulations!
22.06.2026
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Personnel news
Lorenz Meister successfully defended his dissertation, “Essays on Economic Beliefs, Risk Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Contemporary Democracies,” at Freie Universität Berlin on 18 June. His supervisors were Carsten Schröder (FU Berlin, SOEP) and Panu Poutvaara (LMU Munich).
We congratulate Lorenz on this outstanding achievement!
19.06.2026
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Personnel news
Lorenz Meister, Research Associate in the SOEP Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Essays on Economic Beliefs, Risk Preferences, and Political Attitudes in Contemporary Democracies” on June 18, 2026. He was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Panu Poutvaara. Congratulations!
19.06.2026
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Publication
A study conducted within the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) by Christoph Schmidt-Petri, Daniel Labarca Pinto, and Carsten Schröder with 2,295 respondents confirms that people are much more likely to attribute intentionality to harmful side effects than to beneficial ones.
The findings replicate a classic result from experimental philosophy using representative population data and highlight the potential ...
15.06.2026| Daniel Labarca Pinto, Carsten Schröder
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Interview
For more than 40 years, SOEP has been collecting information on living conditions, health, and social factors from approximately 30,000 individuals. Based on these data, Sabine Zinn develops synthetic health data that links different information sources and enable realistic scenario modeling. These models help researchers understand human behavior during crises and assess potential impacts at an early ...
02.06.2026| Sabine Zinn
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Publication
The Socio-Economic Panel’s 42nd year marked a turning point, as the recently published annual report shows. The SOEP’s vision for its own strategic expansion was evaluated by the Leibniz Association and the German Science Council (as the “great strategic enhancement”). This broad-based initiative aims to ensure the study’s continued sustainability through methodological and technical innovations. The ...
01.06.2026| Janina Britzke, Markus M. Grabka, Verena Neumann
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Report
The Geolinking Service SoRa enables spatial analysis of social science survey data and contributes to socio-spatial research. It provides pre-prepared geospatial datasets as well as methods for linking survey and spatial data.
On 13 May, a successful soft launch was held as an online event with 100 participants.
To facilitate exchange among users of the SoRa geolinking service, a dedicated discussion ...
14.05.2026| Alexander Jung
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Report
The Geolinking Service SoRa enables spatial analysis of social science survey data and supports socio-spatial research. Pre-defined geospatial datasets and linking methods will be offered, e.g. spatial indicators from the IOER-Monitor to analyses the living environment (including aspects of accessibility, or density). Furthermore, geocoding (based on BKG Geocoder) is offered to transfer address lists ...
14.05.2026| Alexander Jung
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Personnel news
Clara Schäper, Research Associate in the Public Economics Department and Gender Economics research group and Ph.D. student at the University of Potsdam, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “The Personal is Political: Five Essays in Labor and Family Economics” on May 12, 2026. She was supervised by Katharina Wrohlich and C. Katharina Spieß. Congratulations!
13.05.2026
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Personnel news
We are proud to share that our PhD student Gökhan Ider (Freie Universität Berlin) and Hedda Thorell from Stockholm University were awarded the Lamfalussy Research Fellowship 2026 by the European Central Bank. They are among five fellows and will work on their paper "News-driven fluctuations and monetary policy transmission" during their fellowship.
The Lamfalussy Fellowship program was launched in ...
13.05.2026