Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

What Can Happiness Research Tell Us About Altruism? - Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Is It All in Your Head? Personality in the Context of Intergenerational Reproduction of Inequality

This thesis brings together psychological and sociological research approaches to examine the role of personality in the reproduction of educational and labour market in-equality. The first research question examines the influence of personality on educational and labour market outcomes. The second research question relates to the extent to which differences in personalities of children and parents can ...

Education and Immigrant Integration (Dissertation)

The successful integration of immigrants and their children in host-country labor markets is one of the most important and challenging issues, faced not only by the German society, but also by other Western economies with large and growing immigrant populations. This thesis contributes to the ongoing debate about the determinants of long-term immigrant integration by analyzing several potential barriers, ...

The 9/11 conservative shift

This study analyzes the causal impact of the 9/11 terror attacks on individual political orientation and political support intensity using the German Socio-Economic Panel 1999–2003. Exploiting survey interview timing in 2001 for identification and controlling for unobserved individual heterogeneity, I find 9/11 to have increased overall political mobilization. While there is no indication of a considerable ...

Parental Ethnic Identity and Educational Attainment of Second-Generation Immigrants

A lack of cultural integration is often blamed for hindering immigrant families’ economic progression. This paper explores whether there are in fact long-term consequences by investigating intergenerational effects of parental ethnic identity on the next generation’s human capital accumulation. Results based on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) indicate a positive role of ...

The Effects of 9/11 on Attitudes toward Immigration and the Moderating Role of Education

The 9/11 terror attacks are likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using unique longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview timing throughout 2001, I find that the 9/11 events caused an immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within-standard ...

Compulsory Military Service and Personality Development

Compulsory military service is a uniformed life event disrupting the lives of young men (and sometimes women) in countries with conscription. Consequently, the development of personality and subjective well-being during service was investigated using representative population data from the German Socio-Economic Panel. In line with previous findings, men who chose military service revealed descriptively ...

Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Living Conditions of Children and Parental Well-Being - Evidence from German Data on Life Satisfaction

Subjective Measures of Economic Well-Being and the Influence of Income Uncertainty

This paper provides evidence that subjective measures of individual well being can be used to study the impact of income uncertainty from an ex ante point of view. Two different measures of subjective well being are under study: Satisfaction with household income and the income evaluation question as developed by Van Praag. It can be shown that satisfaction with income is more affected by ex ante than ...