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The intergenerational transmission of educational attainment remains a key mechanism through which social inequalities are reproduced. While sociological research has long emphasized environmental influences, recent research shows that genetic differences are also relevant to educational attainment, as well as socially contingent in their influences. Using the effects of a polygenic score for educational ...
In:
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
(2026),
| Lena Harjes
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Background: Family migration shapes early childhood development (ECD), but the link between parental voluntary versus forced migration experiences and ECD remains underexplored. Germany, with its diverse migration streams, offers an opportunity to investigate this interrelation. Objective: This study examines the link between parental migration status and ECD of children aged 2–4 and investigates whether ...
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Demographic Research
55 (2026), 8, 275–306
| Valeriia Heidemann, Sabine Zinn, Louise Biddle
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Research has demonstrated that couples have similar partisan preferences, a finding associated with political polarization. However, it remains debated to what extent different mechanisms contribute to this homogamy. Analyzing dyadic panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 1984–2020, we distinguish analytically between (1) direct political matching (i.e., partner selection on matching party ...
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Social Forces
103 (2025), 4, 1581–1603
| Ansgar Hudde, Daniela Grunow
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This paper investigates child poverty in Germany through a multidimensional lens, combining Sen?s Capability Approach and Bourdieu?s Capital Theory to develop a tailored Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) for children aged 11?15 and youth aged 17. Drawing on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP v38, 2021), this study identifies key patterns of multidimensional deprivation among children ...
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Journal of Youth Studies
(online first) (2026), 1–24
| Charlotte Margarete Jost, Zina Nimeh
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In this study, we examine the relationship between personality traits, captured by risk tolerance and the Big Five traits, and firm size, as measured by the number of employees. We show that the personality of entrepreneurs matters for the size of their firm they operate. We use a novel add-on to the German Socio-Economic Panel that includes a sub-sample of owner-managers running larger firms. High ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2026,
(DIW Discussion Papers 2173)
| Berfing Kardaslar, Alexander S. Kritikos, Lukas Menkhoff
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Aims: This study investigates how continuous exposure to psychosocial and material factors influences self-rated health (SRH) trajectories in different income groups, uniquely contrasting two mechanisms from a life course perspective: accumulation, where disadvantages intensify with longer exposure, and adaptation, where individuals adjust to adverse conditions.Methods: Based on the German Socio-Economic ...
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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
(2026),
| Anja Knöchelmann, Tobias Rähse, Matthias Richter
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This study investigates the role of engaging in physical leisure activities in facilitating refugees? structural integration through enhancing their social capital, destination-language proficiency, and health. The physical fitness gained from such activities can also be crucial for securing physically demanding jobs. As employment significantly influences refugees? social integration, this research ...
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European Journal for Sport and Society
(2026), 1–22
| Jana Kuhlemann, Yuliya Kosyakova
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This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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The Socio-Economic Panel Linked Employer–Employee Survey, Version 2 (SOEP-LEE2), provides linked information on employees, establishments, and self-employed individuals in Germany. An earlier Data Observer article (Matiaske, Wenzel, Torben Dall Schmidt, Christoph Halbmeier, M. Maas, D. Holtmann, C. Schröder, et al. 2024. “SOEP-LEE2: Linking Surveys on Employees to Employers in Germany.” Jahrbücher ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026),
| Carsten Schröder, Tamara Böhm, Markus M. Grabka, Alexander Kritikos, Stefan Liebig, Martina Maas, Wenzel Matiaske, Daniel Labarca-Pinto, Isabella Retter, Torben Dall Schmidt, Juliane Zenker
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Is concern about immigration sufficient to account for the increasing success of Germany’s right-wing populist party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)? Or does socio-economic deprivation also matter? Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data from 2014 to 2024, we find that concern about immigration alone accounts for about 75 percent of explicable variation in AfD support and even for 90 percent ...
In:
PLOS ONE
21 (2026), 7, e0350403
| Martin Schröder, Moritz Rehm, Anja Röcke