This paper investigates the relationship between work time arrangements and personal well-being in married and cohabiting couples. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), we study how the number of hours worked by the survey respondents and their partners influenced their own well-being. We also investigate possible transmission mechanisms between the two variables, namely income, hours spent in homemaking and care activities, and possible mismatch between desired and actual hours. Using Hybrid panel models we find evidence of different relations according to the respondent’s gender: Women report higher satisfaction with the increase of their partner’s working hours, while the opposite is true for men. At the same time, own hours have a positive effect on men’s life satisfaction, while they have the opposite effect for women. The presence of young children in the household further amplifies these results. Our conclusion is that respondents are happier when their and their partner’s behavior conforms to the roles of female homemaker and male breadwinner. Considering the absence of a strong mechanism related to time needs and time desires, we suggest those results are related to strong traditional attitudes towards gender roles and female labor force participation in the country considered.

In an information-and knowledge-based society, data protection plays a significant role. Basically, it has to ensure the right to informational self-determination codified in the individual's right to decide whether to disclose or not disclose his or her personal data. Recent decades have seen a strong growth in the awareness of data protection issues in the social sciences. The German National Educational Panel Study was established to collect survey data on educational processes and competence development for the scientific community. Its complex multicohort sequence design harbors several challenges for data protection: The legal regulations, the longitudinal design, the different populations under study, the varying collection modes and the sampling procedure all need to be considered from the perspective of data protection when collecting, processing, and disseminating data. Appropriate procedures and clear structures are essential. These can be developed only in a close cooperation between social scientists and data protection experts. Zusammenfassung:In einer informations-und wissensbasierten Gesellschaft kommt dem Datenschutz eine bedeutende Rolle zu. Das Recht auf informationelle Selbstbestimmung, welches es dem Individuum erlaubt, über die Preisgabe seiner persönlichen Daten selbst zu entscheiden, ist grundsätzlich zu schützen. In den letzten Jahren hat das Bewusstsein über die Bedeutung des Datenschutzes in den Sozialwissenschaften stark zugenommen. Das Nationale Bildungspanel wurde ins Leben gerufen, um Daten über Bildungsverläufe und Kompetenzentwicklung für die wissenschaftliche Nutzung zu erheben. Das komplexe Multi-Kohorten-Sequenz-Design birgt mit Blick

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