Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

The Spread of Social Indicators- and Quality of Life-Research in Germany and Europe: An Overview in Honour of Alex Michalos (Chapter 12)

This overview is a comprehensive reconstruction of the social indicators movement from the middle of the 1960s up to the actual quality of life and wellbeing-research 50 years later. The time span regarded here corresponds roughly with the professional life of the two authors and the article is dedicated to Alex Michalos, to whom our research network thanks a lot.

The Effect of Student Aid on the Duration of Study

In this paper I evaluate the effect of student aid on the success of academic studies. I focus on two dimensions, the duration of study and the probability of actually graduating with a degree. While there is an extensive literature on the impact of student aid on its intended outcome, the uptake of tertiary education, the impact on the outcome and on study incentives has been mainly ignored. But introducing ...

Self-Employment: A Way to End Unemployment? Empirical Evidence from German Pseudo-Panel Data

Risks and Returns to Educational Fields: A Financial Asset Approach to Vocational and Academic Education

Future public pensions and changing employment patterns across birth cohorts

We analyse the impacts of changing employment patterns and pension reforms on the future level of public pensions across birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a microsimulation model and a rich data set that combines household survey data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and process-produced microdata from the German pension insurance. We account for cohort effects in ...

Income, income, or income? The effects of different income measures on health in a national survey

Background - The effects of six income types (household post-government income, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development-weighted household post-government income, individual net income, corrected monthly household income and household net income from wages) on subjective health were compared in order to examine to what extent their effects are different. Methods - Data from the German ...

Chances of Employment in a Population of Women and Men After Surgery of Congenital Heart Disease: Comparisons between Patients and the General Population

Objective. It was examined whether women and men (17–45 years) with operated congenital heart disease differ with respect to chances of employment. Patients were compared with the general population. Design. Patients (n = 314) were classified by type of surgery (curative, reparative, palliative) as indicator of initial severity of disease. The second classification was performed according to a system ...

Life chances after surgery of congenital heart disease: the influence of cardiac surgery on intergenerational social mobility. A comparison between patients and general population data

Nonresponse in Panel Surveys - A Review of Adjustment Techniques

A latent Markov Model for poverty analysis: the case of the GSOEP