SOEP-CoV - "The Spread of the Coronavirus in Germany: Socio-Economic Factors and Consequences" is a joint research project of SOEP at DIW Berlin and Bielefeld University. The project was launched in April 2020 immediately after the outbreak of the virus in Germany and aimed to establish a survey...

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people’s mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial...

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic and the government-mandated measures to contain its spread affect the self-employed — particularly women — in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...

Die COVID-19-Pandemie führte im Jahr 2020 für viele Selbstständige zu einem negativen Einkommensschock. Wie hat sich die Pandemie im weiteren Verlauf auf die Bereitschaft ausgewirkt, in dieser Erwerbsform zu verbleiben? Während im Jahr 2019 noch rund 85 Prozent der im Vorjahr...

Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the...

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge....

Psychische Gesundheit gewinnt in der öffentlichen Diskussion zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Im Vergleich zur körper lichen Gesundheit ist sie aber weiterhin weniger prominent. Wie steht es also um die psychische Gesundheit in Deutsch land? Der Wochenbericht zeigt, dass sich die durchschnittli...

We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child's...

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is scarce to non-existent. This is problematic because both theoretical and empirical evidence show that the position in the wealth and income distribution can significantly diverge....