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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
We are pleased to announce that the job advertisement for the Full Professorship (W3) for Applied Social Research and Survey Methodology is online as of today. The professorship is linked to the leadership of the Survey Methodology and Management Division at the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and is a joint appointment between the University ...
31.08.2026| Sabine Zinn
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Report
On October 6 and 7, 2026 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work with ...
21.08.2026| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
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Personnel news
Prof. Dr. Sabine Zinn, Director of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin, has been appointed by the German Federal Ministry of Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth as an expert advisor and member of the monitoring panel for the National Action Plan (NAP) for Child Opportunities (Nationaler Aktionsplan "Neue Chancen für Kinder in Deutschland").
The action plan implements ...
20.08.2026
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Personnel news
Marten Ritterrath, who is an associate Ph.D. student in the Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department has successfully defended his dissertation at the Universität zu Köln on July 20th. The dissertation, entitled "How Personal Experiences and Social Concerns Shape Green Innovation and Climate Policy" was supervised by Prof. Anna Bindler, Ph.D and Prof. Dr. Felix Bierbrauer (Universität zu Köln). Congratulations ...
27.07.2026
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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