Implementation of Funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): A Personal Recollection

Schäfers, Bernhard

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Title:

Implementation of Funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): A Personal Recollection

Authors:

Schäfers, Bernhard

Year of Publication:

2009

Series/Report no.:

SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research No. 231

Publisher:

Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin

Abstract:

The SOEP success story was not conceivable at its inception. SOEP's institutionalization is therefore a lesson demonstrating that it is not always possible to say - as is so often required of research proposals today - how a project will develop before it has even begun, and what significance it may one day have. Or, even worse, to show "how a research project will pay off".

Subjects:

SOEP
German Research Foundation (DFG)
Microanalytical Foundations of Social Policy

JEL:

C89
O39

Document Type:

Working Paper

Appears in Collections:

Publikationen von Forscherinnen und Forschern des DIW Berlin
SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research - DIW Berlin

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