Dear All,

please consider our call for papers for SOEP2026:

Next year the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2026) will be held in Berlin on July 8-9, 2026 in Berlin. The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP (including the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF), SOEP-IS, SOEP-EU-SILC Clone, and LIS/LWS data) with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with their peers. Researchers of all disciplines (e.g., economics, demography, geography, political science, public health, psychology, and sociology) are invited to submit an abstract.

We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies that compare and/or combine different populations or samples, analyses, designs, methods, and time periods. In addition, we encourage submissions beyond this thematic focus, especially those making use of the longitudinal features of SOEP, as well as submissions on survey methodology and cross-national comparative analysis. 

Keynote Speakers are:
Wiebke Bleidorn | University of Zurich - UZH (Switzerland)
Thomas Dohmen | University of Bonn and Maastricht University (Germany/Netherlands)

Scientific Committee:
- Markus M. Grabka, SOEP/DIW Berlin
- Marianna Magagnoli, SOEP/DIW Berlin
- Levent Neyse, SOEP/DIW Berlin and WZB
- Isabella Retter, SOEP/DIW Berlin
- Carsten Schröder, SOEP/DIW Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin
- Natalia Danzer, Freie Universität Berlin
- Jian Lee, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (China)
- Jan Marcus, Freie Universität Berlin
- Zahra Murad, Portsmouth University (United Kingdom)

Please submit electronic versions of abstracts (up to 300 words) no later
than February 28, 2026 to: soep2026@diw.de
Acceptance notifications will be sent out by March 31, 2026. The conference location in Berlin-Mitte will be announced in due time.

For more information on the conference please refer to: www.diw.de/soep2026

Please feel free to forward this CfP to your networks and interested colleagues!
We are looking forward to your submissions.

Kind regards on behalf of the organizing committee,
Sabine Zinn
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SOEP2026 - 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
- Local Organization -

soep2026@diw.de

Fon: +49 30 897 89 418DIW Berlin | Mohrenstr. 58 | 10117 Berlin, Germany