Sozialwissenschaftliche Untersuchungen basieren häufig auf Umfragen. Gelten diese als repräsentativ, so ist dies ein Gütesiegel für die Möglichkeit, Aussagen über eine Grundgesamtheit zu treffen. Was genau bedeutet aber „repräsentativ“ – und welche Umfragen können als...

Societal acceptance of the LGBTQI* people has greatly improved over the past decades in Germany and legal equal treatment on the labor market has been improved by the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG). However, about 30 percent of those who identify as...

In Deutschland hat sich die gesellschaftliche Akzeptanz von LGBTQI*-Menschen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten deutlich verbessert und die rechtliche Gleichstellung am Arbeitsmarkt wurde durch das Allgemeine Gleichbehandlungsgesetz gestärkt. Dennoch berichten knapp 30 Prozent derjenigen, die sich...

Discrimination and rejection experienced by LGBTQI* people affect their mental health and, in the long term, their physical health as well. Survey data from the Socio-Economic Panel and Bielefeld University show that LGBTQI* people in Germany are affected by negative mental health outcomes three...

Integrating economic experiments into household surveys provides unique possibilities. We introduce the German Socio-Economic Panel's Innovation Sample (SOEPIS), which offers researchers detailed panel data and the possibility to collect personalized experimental and survey data for free. We...

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...