Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Child Support Policy: An International Perspective (Chapter 1)

Explaining Gender Convergence in Housework Time: Evidence from a Cohort-Sequence Design

This study connects two lines of research—trend studies on social change in housework time and life-course studies on individual- and couple-level change in housework time. This novel approach allowed us to link the macro-level trend of gender convergence in housework time to the micro-level mechanisms underlying it. Using long-running panel data (SOEP), we implemented a cohort-sequence design that ...

New evidence on the relationship between risk attitudes and self-employment

This paper analyses the impact of risk attitudes on the decision to become selfemployed among individuals who grew up under the communist regime in Ukraine, which banned self-employment so that individuals could not observe what it is like to be self-employed. Since the intra-family transmission of self-employment experiences was largely shut down, the observed correlation between risk preferences ...

Cross National Patterns of Retirement and Poverty Among Men and Women in the 1980s: Full Stop or Gradual Withdrawal?

U.S. Poverty and Income Security Policy in a Cross National Perspective

Why the U.S. Antipoverty System Doesn't Work Very Well

The International Evidence on Income Distribution in Modern Economics - Where Do We Stand?

Globalization, Inequality and the Rich Countries of the G-20: Evidence from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS)

Real Standards of Living and Public Support for Children: A Cross-National Comparison

No Child Left Behind?