Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Life satisfaction and return migration: analysing the role of life satisfaction for migrant return intentions in Germany

This study analyses the role of life satisfaction for the intention of migrants to return to their country of origin. It is argued that the utility function of return migration is a function of life satisfaction gains and losses due to migration. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the World Value Survey, first-generation migrants from 26 countries were studied on the country level and within ...

Initial Placement Restrictions: Opportunity or Challenge for Refugee Integration?

The impact of economic uncertainty, precarious employment, and risk attitudes on the transition to parenthood

This study investigates how precarious employment throughout the life course affects the fertility behavior of men and women in Germany, and how risk attitudes moderate exposure to objectively given uncertainty. Analyzing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study from 1990 to 2015, I find that men and women have become quite similar in their fertility behavior: Stable employment accelerates ...

Child care, social norms and women's labor supply: Four empirical essays in family economics

Diese Dissertation umfasst vier eigenständige Kapitel, die jeweils einen eigenen Beitrag zur ökonomischen Literatur der frühkindlichen Bildung und Betreuung, sozialer Normen und Erwerbsentscheidungen von Frauen leisten. Soziale Normen gelten als zentrale Erklärung für die sich ändernde Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen. Kapitel 2 dieser Dissertation untersucht die intergenerationale Transmission dieser ...

Mind the “Happiness” Gap: The Relationship Between Cohabitation, Marriage, and Subjective Well-being in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway

Many studies have found that married people have higher subjective well-being than those who are not married. Yet the increase in cohabitation raises questions as to whether only marriage has beneficial effects. In this study, we examine differences in subjective well-being between cohabiting and married men and women in midlife, comparing the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, and Norway. We apply ...

Do vegetarians feel bad? Examining the association between eating vegetarian and subjective well-being in two representative samples

Research on the relationship between vegetarianism and subjective well-being (SWB) has produced inconsistent results, which may partly be due to small sample sizes and divergent operationalizations of well-being. For these reasons, the present study aimed to thoroughly examine this association in two large representative samples from Germany (Study 1: N = 12,905, including 665 vegetarians) and Australia ...

Life chances after surgery of congenital heart disease: A case-control-study of inter- and intragenerational social mobility over 15 years

Background: Patients of congenital heart disease surgery have good prospects for reaching old age. Against the backdrop of increasing life expectancies, the question of how well such patients are mastering daily routines and their working life emerges. In our study, the educational and occupational performance of patients over 15 years was examined. Methods: Intergenerational social mobility (changes ...

A typological approach of perceived resource fluctuations after job transitions in a representative panel study

Job and career transitions are unique experiences that vary within and between persons. One possible reason for the differential effects of transitions is that they can involve resource gains, losses, conservation, or a combination thereof. This study investigates perceived resource fluctuation patterns as possible reasons for differential health outcomes in a representative German panel study (n = ...

The Editor vs. The Algorithm: Returns to Data and Externalities in Online News

We run a field experiment to quantify the economic returns to data and informational ex-ternalities associated with algorithmic recommendation relative to human curation in the context of online news. Our results show that personalized recommendation can outperform human curation in terms of user engagement, though this crucially depends on the amount of personal data. Limited individual data or breaking ...

Essays on the Political Economy of Immigration

The thesis presents three essays dealing with political, social and economic aspects of international migration. In the second chapter (coauthored work with Prof. Lewis Davis, Union College, NY), we revisit the well-established salient relationship between rising immigrant population shares (IPS) and the success of far-right parties in the European countries. In particular, special attention is given ...