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Personnel news
Two new staff members in the BASE-II Project (Berlin Aging study II), funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and conducted in cooperation with Charité Berlin, the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, and the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics have been working in the SOEP at DIW Berlin since June 2012: Denise Saßenroth and Anke Böckenhoff.Denise Saßenroth, ...
19.06.2012
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Jürgen Schupp was elected spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Network of Infrastructure Facilities (IVI) of the Leibniz Association on its last meeting at the end of April. The network consists of 18 Leibniz Institutions that work with a particular high share of scientific services. Jürgen Schupp will represent the interests of the infrastructure facilities - amongst others in the Presidency ...
18.06.2012
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Personnel news
Patricia Axt - who many of you know from the German Data Forum (RatSWD) where she worked for many years - started working on May 16, 2012 as SOEP Team Assistant.She is taking the place of Birgit Pollin during her maternity leave.
13.06.2012
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Our staff member Daniel D. Schnitzlein was awarded the Hermann Gutmann Foundation Award by the Faculty of Law and Economics at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg for his dissertation entitled "Four Essays on Economic Mobility."In his dissertation, he used SOEP and PSID data from Germany and the USA as well as IDA data from Denmark to compare and examine the levels ...
13.06.2012
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For a considerable time now, the lack of equality in wage incomes in Germany has been getting clearly worse. Hence it is all the more important to at least guarantee equal opportunities in our society. The level of income - both for social and economic reasons - should be dependent on individual performance and not on one's parents' status. But what shape is equality of opportunity in Germany ...
01.06.2012
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We would like to ask you to complete a short questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us continue improving the SOEP data and our services to the international SOEP user community.If you did not receive a personal invitation, please register at https://fragebogen.diw.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=15655&lang=en(This link will be active only up to May 31.)The entire survey will take only 10 ...
04.05.2012
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We're pleased to announce that our new SOEP Facebook page has gone online at: http://www.facebook.com/soepnet.de To get up-to-the-minute news on our activities, publications, TV interviews, SOEPpapers, conferences, and much more, please "like" us! If you have any ideas or suggestions, we'd love to hear from you at soepnet@diw.de.And don't forget to keep sending ...
02.05.2012
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The new SOEPnewsletter 96/April 2012 is publishedWe provide information about: *** SOEP Data- The SOEP 1984-2010 data (v 27) - 2012 SOEP User Survey- Bugfixes in SOEP 1984-2010 data (v27)- FiD data now available*** Comment: New Data on Families in Germany (FiD)
30.03.2012
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“Familien in Deutschland” (FiD) is a survey focusing on young families and families in challenging circumstances (low-income, single-parent, and large families). The FiD data are now available to the scientific community. The process of obtaining the data is fairly simple, although slightly more involved than for the SOEP data: additionally to the application form an abstract must be ...
30.03.2012
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Our SOEP colleague Thomas Siedler, Ph.D., was appointed to a W3 professorship at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Economics, focusing on microeconometrics. His position there begins April 1, 2012. He will remain closely associated with the SOEP and DIW Berlin and will continue collaborating on the BMBF-funded project BASE II (Berlin Aging Study II).
30.03.2012
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After sending out the SOEP data version 27 (Data 1984-2010) in some datasets bugs have been reported.COGDJ, SOEPlong and some labels in the $HBRUTTO files are affected.For more information please see the site Known Bugs/Fixes. We provide fixes for download. Please contact our hotline soepmail@diw.de to get a personalized link.
20.01.2012
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Who wants to contribute may apply from now on!The research infrastructure SOEP at DIW Berlin establishes a longitudinal Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) for particularly innovative research projects. The SOEP-IS should be primarily available for methodical and thematic research that involves too much of a risk of high non-response rates for the long-term SOEP study. Any scientist who wants to contribute ...
20.01.2012
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PD Dr. Joachim R. FrickPhoto: DIW Berlin We mourn the loss of our colleague Joachim R. Frick. He died on the 16th of December 2011 at the age of 49. Joachim R. Frick was one of the directors of the internationally renowned Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study. At the peak of his career, Joachim fell victim to an extremely virulent form of cancer. He fought bravely and valiantly and in the end found ...
19.12.2011
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The SOEP Survey Committee welcomes new member Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Bärbel-Maria Kurth. She is the Director of the Department of Epidemiology and Health Reporting at the Robert Koch Institute, and serves on both the Supervisory Board and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Helmholz Center for Infection Research in Braunschweig on appointment by the Federal Minister of Education ...
05.12.2011
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Veronika Waue started work in the SOEP group on December 1, 2011. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Economics and completed a doctoral thesis on optimization processes. She will be working as part of the SOEP data base team.
05.12.2011
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The SOEP welcomes trainees Florian Griese and Janine Napieraj, who began their training in Market and Social Research on November 1, 2011. The three-year traineeship will take place largely in the SOEP at DIW Berlin as well as at a vocational school in Berlin. Experts in Market and Social Research take on organizational tasks in planning internal and external data collection processes. They conduct ...
05.12.2011
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In August, Daniel Schnitzlein has begun a post-doc position at the SOEP, after completing his doctoral degree in Economics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg at the Chair of Regina Riphahn. At SOEP, he will work on generating user-friendly variables and analyzing dimensions of intergenerational mobility and inequality.
10.08.2011
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Sandra Gerstorf has joined the SOEP team in mid-July to work in scientific management and the coordination and oversight of committee activities, e.g. the scientific advisory board. She studied at the Universities of Rostock and Oldenburg and completed her doctoral degree in Psychology at the University of Rostock. She is experienced in scientific management from her work at the Max Planck Institute ...
27.07.2011
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David Richter started working in the SOEP team in July. He studied Psychology at the Free University Berlin and completed his doctoral degree at Jacobs University Bremen on the development of empathy in adulthood. During the last few years, he successfully coordinated the BiKS (Bildungsprozesse, Kompetenzentwicklung und Selektionsentscheidungen im Vor- und Grundschulalter) longitudinal study at the ...
27.07.2011
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We would like to ask you to complete a short questionnaire. By doing so, you will help us continue improving the SOEP data and our services to the international SOEP user community.If you did not receive a personal invitation, please register at https://fragebogen.diw.de/limesurvey/index.php?sid=28771&lang=en(This link will be active only up to August 5.) The entire survey will take only 10 to ...
20.07.2011