The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...

Like many medical studies, the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is based on a non-random "gconvenience sample" of self-recruited participants. To study processes of selectivity in BASE-II, we used a questionnaire to compare BASE-II with a large, representative reference study, the German...

This manual briefly describes the theoretical background and development of all of the scales used in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. It also provides the relevant citations as well as the items belonging to the scales and the answer format, including the verbal anchors. The unique value...

This manual briefly describes the theoretical background and development of all of the scales used in the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. It also provides the relevant citations as well as the items belonging to the scales and the answer format, including the verbal anchors. The unique value...

Empirical results suggest that individual and age-related differences in risk taking may be task dependent. Such results call into question the power of traditional measures of risk preferences, such as the choice between monetary gambles with described outcomes and probabilities, to fully and...

This report details the design of the boost Sample Q to the SocioEconomic Panel (SOEP) in 2019. Sample Q supplemented the SOEP Core sample by queer households, including gender and sexual minorities such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans* respondents (LGBTQ*). Recruitment of these households...