Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Essays on Time Preferences and Expectations in Dynamic Decision Making

The three chapters of this dissertation provide new insights in modeling and estimating dynamic discrete choice models. Building on previous identification results, several new strategies are presented to estimate important aspects of dynamic decision processes. A focus lies on hyperbolic discounting and biased expectations, two elements that the vast majority of the literature on female labor supply ...

The Early Childhood Education and Care Quality in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP-ECEC Quality) Study - K2ID-SOEP Data: Forschungsprojekt im Auftrag der Jacobs Foundation

Socio-economic and regional inequalities in early care and education: Consequences for mothers' work-family life and children's educational opportunities

Allocating Collective Expenditure: The Case of Education

Creating distributional national accounts (DINA; e.g. Piketty, Saez, and Zucman 2018) requires the allocation of all government expenditure to individuals in order to compute their post-tax, post-transfer income. A sizeable part of government expenditure is in-kind spending, either in the form of individualized transfers (e.g., Medicare and Medicaid) or of collective consumption expenditure (e.g., ...

Educational Choices in Germany: Empirical Essays in the Economics of Education

How is the way we spend our time related to psychological wellbeing? A cross-sectional analysis of time-use patterns in the general population and their associations with wellbeing and life satisfaction

Background: Time-use surveys can closely monitor daily activities, times of stress and relaxation, and examine predictors and trajectories with regard to health. However, previous studies have often neglected the complex interaction of daily activities when looking at health outcomes. Methods: Using latent profile analysis, this study examined patterns of self-reported daily time use (0–12h hours) ...

Gender and Educational Inequalities in Extending Working Lives: Late-Life Employment Trajectories Across Three Decades in Seven Countries

Public policies encourage later retirement, but they often do not account for discrepancies in the capacity for extending working lives. This paper studies trends and inequalities in extending working lives between 1990 and 2019 from gender and education perspectives in seven countries (Australia, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States). The three-decade-long data ...

Gendered occupational aspirations among German youth: Role of parental occupations, gender division of labour, and family structure

Objective: This study investigates how multiple domains of parental gender role socialisation as well as parent-child relationships and family structure may shape adolescents’ gendered occupational aspirations. Background: Young people with gender-typical aspirations have a higher chance of choosing gender-typical post-secondary education fields and are more likely to work in gender-typical occupations ...

Testing the Relationships Between Narcissism, Risk Attitude, and Income With Data From a Representative German Sample

Narcissism is related to income and risk-taking behavior, but previous studies have computed only pairwise associations and have used only domain-specific risk-taking measures. We jointly investigated narcissistic admiration and rivalry, income, and general risk attitude. Using a representative sample from the German population (N = 14,473), we contrasted a model assuming that risk attitude and narcissistic ...

Wealth of children from single-parent families: Low levels and high inequality in Germany

Families’ economic wealth is a resource that can provide children with crucial advantages early in their lives. Prior research identified substantial variation of wealth levels between different family types with children from single-parent families being most disadvantaged. The causes of this disadvantage, how much the disadvantage varies between children and how the non-resident parents’ wealth may ...