Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Distribution of Assets and Debt

Family Gaps in Income: A Cross-National Comparison

Motherhood and Women's Earnings in Anglo-American, Continental, European, and Nordic Countries

Windfall gains and labour: evidence from the European household panel

We investigate whether workers adjust hours worked in response to windfall gains using data from the European Household Panel. The results suggest that a rise in unearned income has a negative (although small) effect on working hours. In particular, after receiving a windfall gain, individuals are more likely to drop out of the labour force and the effects become larger as the size of windfall increases. ...

Reconsidering the income‐health relationship using distributional regression

We reconsider the relationship between income and health taking a distributional perspective rather than one centered on conditional expectation. Using structured additive distributional regression, we find that the association between income and health is larger than generally estimated because aspects of the conditional health distribution that go beyond the expectation imply worse outcomes for those ...

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?

Public Policy and Economic Inequality: The United States in Comparative Perspective