Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The aims of lifelong learning: Age-related effects of training on wages and job security

This study analyses the effects of training participation on wages and perceived job security for employees of different ages. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, results indicate that only younger workers benefit from training by an increase in wages, whereas older employees’ worries about losing their job are reduced. This observation can also be explained by the fact that goals of ...

Differential trends in households’ connection to the Internet: An actor-centered explanation

In this article, an actor-centered model of households’ decision to obtain an Internet connection is set up to explain the diffusion of Internet technology. First, we derive a mechanism based on the demand and supply of online information, services, and goods which drives this diffusion. Afterwards, we link this mechanism to social inequalities with regard to digital technologies and deduce hypotheses ...

How Do Insured Perceive Their Financial Security in the Event of Illness?—A Panel Data Analysis for Germany

Objective There is a lack of research regarding the subjective perception of financial security in the event of illness of insured persons. Therefore, the aim of our study was to analyze the subjective perception of financial security in the event of illness in the German setting over time and to identify major determinants of that perception. Methods We applied a probit-adapted ordinary least squares ...

Demand for Supplemental Health Insurance in Germany – Improving Quality of Care and Closing Coverage Gaps

We use the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to analyze determinants of the demand for sup-plemental health insurance covering hospital and dental in Germany. The GSOP dataset provides doctor diagnosed indicators of the individual’s health state, risk attitude, and demand for medical services and insurance purchases in other lines of insurance as well as rich demographical and socio-economical information. ...

Demand and Selection Effects in Supplemental Health Insurance in Germany

This paper empirically assesses the selection effects and determinants of the demand for supple-mental health insurance that covers hospital and dental benefits in Germany. Our representative dataset provides doctor-diagnosed indicators of the individual’s health status, risk attitude, demand for medical services and insurance purchases in other lines of insurance as well as rich demographic and socioeconomic ...

The Polarization of Preferences and the Provision of Public Goods: the Case of Germany (Master thesis)

Essays in Empirical Development and Education Economics (Dissertation)

The fourth essay (co-authored by Marten von Werder) analyzes the causal effects of tracking, the practice of grouping students by ability, on educational outcomes and the intergenerational transmission of education. While proponents of tracking argue that the practice increases efficiency in educational production, opponents point out that tracking potentially aggravates initial differences between ...

Tracking and the Intergenerational Transmission of Education: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Proponents of tracking argue that the creation of more homogeneous classes increases effciency while opponents point out that tracking aggravates initial differences between students. We estimate the effects on the intergenerational transmission of education of a reform that delayed tracking by two years in one of Germany's federal states. While the reform had no effect on educational outcomes ...

Bootstrapping Goodness-of-Fit Measures in Categorical Data Analysis

Latent Markov Chains (Chapter 11)