We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

For many years, securing equal life opportunities has been a normative goal shared by all democratic societies in the western world. Although, in principle, all citizens enjoy the same rights, in reality, individual life opportunities still vary according to family background which, in turn,...

This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on...

Die Sicherstellung von gleichen Lebenschancen ist ein Ziel, das seit vielen Jahren alle westlich geprägten demokratisch verfassten Gesellschaften teilen. Obwohl alle Bürger formal über gleiche Rechte verfügen, sind auch in Deutschland die Chancen für individuelle Lebensverläufe je nach...

Noch heute wirken in Deutschland die verschiedenen erbrechtlichen Bräuche und Regelungen nach, die im 19. Jahrhundert die Weitergabe von landwirtschaftlichem Grundbesitz an die folgende Generation bestimmten. Eine ökonometrische Analyse zeigt, dass die gleichmäßigere Verteilung von...

The main purpose of this research was to analyze the relationship between total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the mining and energy sector in human development in Colombia from 1990 to 2021, through the estimation of two Autoregressive Vectors -VAR- that accounted for the causal...

In a recent article, Nicolas D. Villarreal claims that our empirical analysis of the relation between business power and industrial sabotage in the United States is unpersuasive, if not deliberately misleading. Specifically, he argues that we cherry-pick specific data definitions and smoothing...

The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina. Unlike other previous studies on the matter, which performed calculations on annual incidence or approximations on the measurement of lifetime income through current consumption...

We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich et al. [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the subjects' production (libertarian principle)....

People are investing their life savings in financial products, for instance, to provide for their retirement, and in doing so they are making their future financial situation almost entirely dependent on the success of these investments. The financial sector promotes numerous investment...