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Background: Capturing the complexity of family life courses as predictors of later-life outcomes like wealth is challenging. Previous research has either (a) assessed a few selective but potentially irrelevant summary indicators, or (b) examined entire life-course clusters without identifying specific important aspects within and between them. Objective: Our aim is to investigate which family life-course ...
In:
Demographic Research
52 (2025), 22, 689-740
| Nicole Kapelle, Carla Rowold
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Objectives A large body of evidence shows poorer mental health among lower socioeconomic groups, with chronic stress being an important pathway in this relationship. It was expected that the mental health of people with low socioeconomic status may have been particularly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. While it has been established that stress also impacted mental health during the pandemic, the ...
In:
Frontiers in Public Health
Volume 13 - 2025 (2025),
| Christina Kersjes, Ibrahim Demirer, Timo-Kolja Pförtner, Florian Beese, Jens Hoebel, Susanne Schnitzer, Elvira Mauz
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Employment is widely considered a key coping strategy for women against the economic burden of divorce. However, few studies have explored how women adjust their labor supply across the divorce process, particularly considering the moderating role of children’s presence and age. This study uses longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from 1984 to 2021 in an event-study approach ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
(online first) (2025),
| Matthias Klingler
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In this article, we introduce the command beyondpareto, which estimates the extreme-value index for distributions that are Pareto-like, that is, whose upper tails are regularly varying and eventually become Pareto. The estimation is based on rank-size regressions, and the threshold value for the upper-order statistics included in the final regression is determined optimally by minimizing the asymptotic ...
In:
The Stata Journal
25 (2025), 1, 169-188
| Johannes König, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Isabella Retter, Mattis Beckmannshagen
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This study evaluates the impact of Germany’s 2007 parental leave reform (Elterngeld), which introduced two months of non-transferable leave for fathers. Using a sharp regression discontinuity design (RDD) with longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), the analysis compares families with children born just before and after the policy’s implementation. The reform helped mothers return ...
2025,
| Christina Lin
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How does the arrival of a new immigrant group affect earlier generations of immigrants? Do intergroup relations and self-identification among earlier immigrants change? Previous research on ethnic boundaries is usually restricted to a twogroup paradigm and primarily focuses on the majority group's perspective. In contrast, this study analyzes how the arrival of refugees in Germany influenced previous ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2025,
(SOEPpapers 1225)
| Renate Gabriele Lorenz
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Despite extensive literature on incentives to increase employees’ work performance, economic research on employer-provided non-monetary benefits remains rare. This study investigates the relationship between benefits and employees’ work effort utilizing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The analysis is based on data from eleven survey waves from 2006 to 2022 and considers five benefit types: ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin; SOEP,
2025,
(SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 1228)
| Helena Manger
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The complex topic of health involves various determinants that impact refugees differently from the general population. Refugees' experience itself serves as a determinant, interacting with individual and socio-economic factors throughout the migratory cycle, making them particularly vulnerable. The theoretical contribution of this study lies in its focus on resilience as a key protective factor ...
In:
Genus
81 (2025), 1, 15
| Daria Mendola, Annalisa Busetta
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Separation, divorce, and repartnering are increasingly common across European societies. These partnership transitions are closely related to individuals' housing careers. For example, after separation, individuals are likely to move out of homeownership and experience a period of elevated residential mobility. However, little is known about the role of repartnering for post-separation housing ...
In:
Population, Space and Place
31 (2025), 6,
| Júlia Mikolai, Hill Kulu, Michael J. Thomas, Sergi Vidal
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Numerous studies in recent decades have shown a significant association between familiar socioeconomic status (SES) and child development. Less is known about the cumulative effects of socioeconomic risk factors, which may have a greater impact on child outcomes than single factors, especially in the first years of life. The study utilized latent mixture models to investigate the effects of socioeconomic ...
In:
Jeanette Ziehm-Eicher, Marcus Hasselhorn, Hans-Günther Roßbach ,
Kinder mit erhöhtem Risiko für Bildungsmisserfolg
Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
3-25
| Dave Möwisch, Annika Susann Wienke, Emilija Meier-Faust, Birgit Mathes, Manja Attig