tendency of the leaving age for the first generations, before it dissappears. 

Parent's educational background, proxied by Abitur

We faced for alle Variables the Problem, that they were measured at different at points in time. For members of our treatment group, i.e. for the people moved out during college we used the data justible to be valid at the time of decison taking. For individuals living at home at the end of their studys we used data justible to be valid 3 years before ending their education.

The main problem we were facing during our analysis was that there is no generated variable that could work as a proxy for our topic of interest in the SOEP.  Because of that we created an algorithm that identifies the 

For identifying individuals that left their parental household during tertiary education we had to rely on the bioeducation data set provided in the SOEP core data. We used the bex8cert variable to examine individuals that stated to received a college degree. We were   Next we restricted the data set to individuals for who we know when they