The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

By Jan Goebel, M. Grabka, S. Liebig, M. Kroh, D. Richter, Carsten Schröder, Jürgen Schupp. Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 2018

939 citations recorded by the source corpus.

In his 2015 Economic Sciences Nobel lecture, Angus Deaton emphasized key issues for understanding welfare-enhancing policies (see Deaton 2015): First, differences in resources across individuals should be measured not only at specific points in time but also across the life course. Second, to better assess socio-economic outcomes, direct economic measures of well-being should be linked with other measures of well-being developed by other social science branches, such as sociology, demography, and psychology. Third, data observations should be reconciled with lifecycle models to investigate the causal mechanisms behind socio-economic outcomes. The main goal of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is in line with the views and visions expressed in Angus Deaton’s lecture: Established in 1984 and located at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), SOEP serves a global research community by providing representative longitudinal data of private households in Germany. The SOEP’s primary research interests and the original survey concept was rooted in the multidisciplinary Collaborative Research Center SfB3, “Microanalytic Foundations of Social Policy” at the Universities of

Subfields: Gender Studies, Management Science and Operations Research, Political Science and International Relations

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/61c17e4260fda0fbb39856fa13b98bebc5097474

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Gender Studies

1. M. Wooden
2. Katrin Rehdanz
3. Heejung Chung
4. Yvonne Lott

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. M. Wooden
2. Anke Jacksohn
3. Katrin Rehdanz
4. Peter Grösche
5. S. Rudert
6. Rainer Greifeneder
7. Stefan Janke
8. Carsten Schröder

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Yvonne Lott
2. Heejung Chung

Citations in the corpus

• Ostracism breeds depression: Longitudinal associations between ostracism and depression over a three-year-period (2021, positive): “We used data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a longitudinal data panel representative for the adult German population ( Goebel et al., 2018 ) to address our research question.”
• The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2002, positive): “Like its German cousin, the SOEP (Goebel et al. 2019), major areas of investigation have included the life course, inequality and mobility, and psychological outcomes (and especially subjectivewell-being).”
• Gender Discrepancies in the Outcomes of Schedule Control on Overtime Hours and Income in Germany (2016, background): “The SOEP is a representative panel study of German households that started in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1984 (Haisken-DeNew and Frick, 2005).”
• Industrial Robots, Workers' Safety, and Health (2022, background): “For a detailed description of the survey, see Wagner et al. (2007) and Goebel et al. (2019).”
• Drivers of renewable technology adoption in the household sector (2019, background): “6 In the SOEP, the household head is the person who knows best about matters concerning the household and hence answers the household questionnaire (Haisken-DeNew and Frick, 2005).”