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SOEP-IS für neue Forschungsfragen: Call for Proposals für die Befragung 2020

Das SOEP-Team möchte Sie auch in diesem Jahr auf die Möglichkeiten der SOEP-Innovations-Stichprobe (SOEP-IS) hinweisen und Sie ermuntern, dieses Instrument zu nutzen, um direkt zu Ihrer Forschungsfrage Mikrodaten auf Haushaltsebene erheben zu lassen. Wenn Sie als ForscherIn  z.B. Informationen auf Haushaltsebene benötigen oder die Einstellung von Individuen für Ihre Forschung ...

Exit Expectations and Debt Crises in Currency Unions

We study a sovereign debt crisis in a small member state of a currency union. If the country exits the currency union, it may redenominate its liabilities and reduce the real value of debt through depreciation and inflation. We analyze formally how the anticipation of this possibility, “exit expectations”, impact the dynamics of the sovereign debt crisis. First, we show that public debt accumulates ...

Arbeit der Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger hat das Leben vieler Menschen konkret verbessert

Der Nobelpreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften geht in diesem Jahr an Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo und Michael Kremer für ihre Arbeit zur Linderung globaler Armut. Dazu ein Statement von Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

EEA / ESEM 2019

Wie die Wende zu einem nachhaltigen Finanzsystem gelingen kann

Poor Glucose Regulation is Associated with Declines in Well-Being among Older Men, but not Women

Glucose regulation is a key aspect of healthy aging and has been linked to brainfunctioning and cognition. Here, we examined the role of glucose regulation for withinpersonlongitudinal trajectories of well-being. We applied growth models to data fromthe Berlin Aging Study II (N = 1,437), using insulin resistance as an index of glucoregulatorycapacity. We found that poor glucose regulation (higher insulin ...

Can Happiness Apps Generate Nationally Representative Datasets? - a Case Study Collecting Data on People’s Happiness Using the German Socio-Economic Panel

In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...

Comparing Administrative and Survey Data: Is Information on Education from Administrative Records of the German Institute for Employment Research Consistent with Survey Self-Reports?

In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...

Argumente für Rückkehr zur Meisterpflicht sind wenig überzeugend

Das Bundeskabinett hat die Wiedereinführung der Meisterpflicht für insgesamt zwölf Handwerke beschlossen. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Karl Brenke, Arbeitsmarktexperte des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

Yemen's Solar Revolution: Developments, Challenges, Opportunities; Report with Policy Recommendations Based on Results from Research Projects Financed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research ("FoReSee", 01LA1811B) and the Energy Access and Development Program ("The Future of Yemen's Energy Sector“)

Yemen has been involved in a civil war with foreign military intervention since 2014. Throughout the conflict, the majority of the population have been cut off from the public electricity grid. However, as alternatives have been unavailable, the country has turned to decentralised solar energy, giving rise to an unprecedented deployment of solar (home) systems. This report uses own calculations, new ...