Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

Private Pensions - A Viable Alternative? Their Distributive Effects in a Comparative Perspective

Household Savings Decision and Income Uncertainty

This paper empirically investigates the effects of changes in the interest rate as well as transitory income uncertainty on households' consumption-savings decision. Applying a structural demand model to German survey data, we estimate the uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy-induced variation of net returns to ...

Intergenerational transfers: The ignored role of time

Does Economic Uncertainty Have an Impact on Decisions to Bear Children? Evidence from Eastern Germany

Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decision to Bear Children? Evidence from East and West Germany

A Comparison of the Poverty Impact of Transfers, Taxes and Market Income across Five OECD Countries

Mortgage Market Maturity and Homeownership Inequality among Young Households: A Five-Country Perspective

The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility

I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child-care enrollment rate, while the opposite is true for mothers whose children are older than two but below the mandatory schooling age. These facts also hold for a cross-section of E.U. countries. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts for this age-dependent ...

Income Variation Amoung West German Households

The Welfare Cost of Income Uncertainty. A Nonparametric Analysis of Households in the United States and Western Germany