The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Scope, Evolution and Enhancements

By Gert G. Wagner, Joachim R. Frick, Jürgen Schupp. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 2007

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After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living conditions and based on a multitude of variables from the social sciences for both theoretical investigation and the evaluation of policy measures. Cohort and panel studies are therefore called upon to become truly interdisciplinary tools. In Section 3, we describe the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), in which we discuss recent improvements of that study which approach this ideal and point out existing shortcomings. Section 4 concludes with a discussion of potential future issues and developments for SOEP and other household panel studies.

Subfields: Health, Social Psychology

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Does the presence of wind turbines have negative externalities for people in their surroundings? Evidence from well-being data (2017, background): “The SOEP is a representative panel of private households in Germany, covering almost 30,000 individuals in 11,000 households every year (Wagner et al., 2007, 2008).”
Working Time Preferences, Hours Mismatch and Well-Being of Couples: Are There Spillovers? (2012, methodology): “The German Socio-Economic Panel Study at DIW Berlin 471-2012 Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2142489 SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW Berlin This series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel Study”
Do smart parents raise smart children? The intergenerational transmission of cognitive abilities (2010, background): “The SOEP is a representative longitudinal micro-database that provides a wide range of socioeconomic information on private households and their individuals in Germany since 1984 (For more detailed information on the SOEP, see Wagner et al., 2007).”
Changing Identity: Retiring from Unemployment (2014, neutral): “*** Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business and Economics, Boltzmannstraße 20, 14195 Berlin, Germany, Email: ronnie.schoeb@fu-berlin.de.”
Effect of Changes in Living Conditions on Well-Being: A Prospective Top–Down Bottom–Up Model (2011, methodology): “Our analysis is based on the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP) survey that has been conducted annually since 1984 (Frick 2006; Wagner et al. 2007).”
Why Should Women Get Less? Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap from Multifactorial Survey Experiments (2017, neutral): “…Panel Study (SOEP) served as a suitable source; it covered 11,370 employed individuals in 2009 (for general information on this panel, see Wagner, Frick, and Schupp 2007).9 We calculated the female-to-male gender pay ratios based on employees’ hourly wages (excluding hourly wages lower…”
Does Distance Determine Who Attends a University in Germany (2010, background): “8 See Wagner et al. (2007) and http://www.diw.de/soep for more information on the SOEP.”
Performance appraisals and job satisfaction (2017, neutral): “5 See Wagner et al. (2007) for a detailed description of the SOEP.”