Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyze whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years (SSYs) in Germany in 1966–1967, which compressed the education phase without affecting the curriculum. Based on difference-in-differences ...
There are numerous challenges to studying structural inequality in sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, from the difficulty of obtaining a representative sample to issues comparing data across populations. This data brief illustrates how the largest household panel survey in Germany, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and its recent nationwide boost sample of SGM households, Sample Q, ...
Dieser Beitrag erschien bei Zeit Online. Moralisch ist die Forderung völlig verständlich, sofort und komplett auf russisches Gas zu verzichten. Wie können wir einem Autokraten, der durch seinen Krieg unermessliches menschliches Leid verursacht, jeden Tag 700 Millionen Euro für Gasimporte zahlen, die er bisher auch für den Aufbau seiner Kriegsmaschinerie nutzt? Nur: Ökonomisch und politisch wäre ein ...
European societies have been experiencing growing income and wealth inequalities over the past few decades, and, accordingly, they are a topic of intense discussion. Although the population’s evaluation of inequalities as just or unjust is important for designing social policies, there has been little research on this evaluation. To close this gap, we use justice evaluations of income and wealth in ...
Mit diesem Video stellen wir Ihnen die Erklärung zur Barrierefreiheit des DIW Berlin in Deutscher Gebärdensprache (DGS) zur Verfügung.
Die Ergebnisse der heutigen Sitzung des Rates der Europäischen Zentralbank (EZB) kommentiert Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), wie folgt:
We estimate the effect of parental separation on the risk and trust attitudes of German adolescents using a large household survey dataset, which allows us to match respondents to their siblings and parents. Our results indicate that adolescents from separated families are less trusting but have the same risk tolerance as adolescents from non-separated families, even after conditioning on the attitudes ...
