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A Simple Instrument for Proxy Vector Autoregressive Analysis

A major challenge for proxy vector autoregressive analysis is the construction of a suitable instrument variable for identifying a shock of interest. We propose a simple proxy that can be constructed whenever the dating and sign of particular shocks are known. It is shown that the proxy can lead to impulse response estimates of the impact effects of the shock of interest that are nearly as efficient ...

Temps Dip Deeper: Temporary Employment and the Midlife Nadir in Human Well-Being

Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may well have different associations with well-being across the lifespan, likely harming people in midlife more ...

Parental Wealth and Children's Cognitive Ability, Mental, and Physical Health: Evidence from the UK Millenium Cohort Study

This article investigates the influence of wealth, a frequently neglected aspect of the economic circumstances of families, on children’s development. Using the UK Millennium Cohort Study, it explores whether parental wealth (net total wealth, net housing wealth, net financial wealth, and house value) is associated with children’s cognitive ability, mental, and physical health at age 11 (N = 8,645), ...

COVID-19: A Crisis of the Female Self-Employed

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male counterparts. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data where respondents are asked about ...

Der Westen hat vom Osten gelernt

Die Wiedervereinigung war nie nur eine einseitige Integration. Auch die Menschen im Westen haben profitiert und sich angepasst – zum Beispiel beim Thema Familie. 30 Jahre nach der Wiedervereinigung fragen sich viele, wie die vergangenen drei Jahrzehnte Ostdeutschland und die Ostdeutschen verändert haben. Sie haben den Menschen in Ostdeutschland Freiheit gebracht und auch ihr ...

Health of Elderly Parents, Their Children's Labor Supply, and the Role of Migrant Care Workers

We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian administrative data show a significant negative impact on labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced ...

SOEP-IS 2014 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2014 des Bonn Intervention Panel

SOEP-IS 2015 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2015 des Bonn Intervention Panel

SOEP-IS 2016 – Methodenbericht zum Befragungsjahr 2016 des Bonn Intervention Panel

"Corona-Monitoring bundesweit (RKI-SOEP-Studie)": Bevölkerungsweite Erhebung der Covid-19-Infektion und -Immunisierung

Die vom Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) am DIW Berlin durchgeführten sozialwissenschaftlichen Längsschnittstudien bundesdeutscher Haushalte (SOEP-CORE und SOEP-IS) bieten die Möglichkeit, bevölkerungsrepräsentative Zusatzerhebungen mit einem hohen Stichprobenumfang zu realisieren. Ab Anfang Oktober bis Ende November werden das SOEP am DIW Berlin und das Robert-Koch-Institut ...