Implementation of Funding for the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP): A Personal Recollection
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 i...
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| Published in | IDEAS Working Paper Series from RePEc |
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| Format | Paper |
| Language | English |
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St. Louis
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
01.01.2009
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| Summary: | 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". |
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