Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Marginal College Wage Premiums under Selection into Employment

We identify female long-term wage returns to college education using the educational expansion between 1960–90 in West Germany as exogenous variation for college enrolment. We estimate marginal treatment effects and propose a simple partial identification technique accounting for women selecting into employment due to having a college education. College-educated women are, on average, more than 18 ...

The persistence of subjective well-being: permanent happiness, transitory misery?

This paper disentangles the roles played by state dependence and unobserved heterogeneity in self-assessed happiness. It estimates a dynamic nonlinear model of subjective well-being on longitudinal data, primarily from France, but also from Australia, Germany, and the UK. Life satisfaction is persistent over time, which static models ignore. This persistence is heterogeneous across individuals: it ...

Until death do us part: The codevelopment of life satisfaction in couples preceding the death of one partner

This work aims to integrate previous research perspectives on terminal well-being decline and partner bereavement by investigating the codevelopment of life satisfaction in the years preceding the death of one partner. We analyzed longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 1,450 couples) and applied dyadic multilevel models to estimate both partners’ trajectories of life satisfaction ...

Single mothers' contact frequency with family and non-family members

Soziale Kontakte alleinerziehender Mütter wurden empirisch bisher überwiegend anhand kleiner selektiver Stichproben und im Querschnitt betrachtet. Die Möglichkeit, die Zusammenhänge zu generalisieren, ist nicht zuletzt durch begrenzte Verfügbarkeit geeigneter Längsschnittdaten eingeschränkt. Dieser Artikel greift auf eine der verfügbaren Datenquellen zurück um zu untersuchen, inwiefern Übergänge ins ...

A Matter of Combination? The Influence of Work-family Life Courses on Life Satisfaction at Higher Ages among German Women

This study analyzed the association between work-family life courses and life satisfaction among 2,542 women aged 60–65 years (born between 1920 and 1957) using German SOEP data and ANOVA models. The results are embedded in a description of the specific role of mothers in Germany (as primary caregivers), different theoretical assumptions (from role theories and theories on cumulative advantages and ...

The Stability and Dynamics of Social Relationships: An Analysis of Factors of Influence on Changes in Ego-Centered Networks

This paper investigates the stability and dynamics of social relationships in an attempt to ascertain the conditions under which relationships are stable and the factors that bring about changes. The analysis employs the data of 13,530 participants in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) representative assessments of 2011 and 2016. In order to explain stability and dynamics in the relationships, we took ...

Socioeconomic position and SARS-CoV-2 infections: seroepidemiological findings from a German nationwide dynamic cohort

Background Evidence on the relationship between socioeconomic position (SEP) and infections with SARS-CoV-2 is still limited as most of the available studies are ecological in nature. This is the first German nationwide study to examine differences in the risk of SARS-CoV-2 infections according to SEP at the individual level.Methods The ‘CORONA-MONITORING bundesweit’ (RKI-SOEP) study is a seroepidemiological ...

Essays on the Impact of Education and Family Policies on the Formation of Human Capital

Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit der Frage, ob Politikmaßnahmen die Bildung von Humankapital beeinflussen können. Vier eigenständige Forschungsaufsätze untersuchen empirisch die Wirkung von bildungs- und familienpolitischen Maßnahmen in Deutschland auf unterschiedliche Dimensionen von Humankapital. Die Bildung von Humankapital wird als ein dynamischer Prozess betrachtet, der sich über den gesamten ...

The education of recently arrived refugees in Germany: Conditions, processes, and outcomes

The effects of health shocks on family status: do financial incentives encourage marriage?

This paper asks whether marriage decisions of unmarried mature couples are driven by the prospect of financial advantages for the later widowed after one partner has suffered a serious health shock. We hypothesize that, in contrast to traditional marriage models, such health shocks may induce unmarried couples to obtain economic benefits, such as survivors’ pensions in particular, through marriage ...