During the last five years higher education research in Germany seems to be in a significant upturn. This is a side … will increase considerably in future. The available data infrastructure for higher education research in Germany consists … particular there is a lack of panel designs. The very new National Education Panel Study (NEPS) will eliminate some but not all …

In Deutschland stehen für Fragen der empirischen Bildungsforschung überwiegend Querschnittserhebungen zur Verfügung …In Germany, researchers dealing with questions of empirical educational research rely mainly on cross-sectional data … using educationally relevant information from long-running household studies like the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to address …