The SOEP Brown Bag is a lunch-time seminar at the SOEP in Berlin taking place every second week throughout the semesterin in which researches can present their work using SOEP data and other longitudinal household panels. Not only is it a good format to get into contact with SOEP staff but also to receive valuable feedback from those being involved in data generation and analysis with the same sources. We ...
Das SOEP Brown Bag ist ein Mittagsseminar im SOEP in Berlin, das während des gesamten Semesters jede zweite Woche stattfindet und in dem Forschende ihre Arbeit präsentieren können, die mit Daten des SOEP und/oder anderen Haushaltspanels entstanden sind. Wir bieten damit nicht nur eine gute Möglichkeit, sowohl mit den Mitarbeitenden des SOEP in Kontakt zu treten, als auch wertvolles ...
This paper examines the causal impact of later retirement on outpatient care consumption among the French elderly. Outpatient care are defined as all the care provided out of the hospital setting. This question is of interest since spill effects may arise if later retirement increases health care expenditures. To deal with reverse causality issue, I use, as an instrumental variable, the 1993...
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher kommentiert die heutigen Beschlüsse des EZB-Rats:
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. Using a unique panel dataset of monthly waste generation in Italian municipalities, we employ the synthetic control method, which allows us to account for possible time-varying ...
Financial systems have developed rapidly in many developing countries. These changes increase the need for research into their effects. To this end DIW Berlin will host a workshop in the field of “Finance and Development” to be held in Berlin on April 23 in the afternoon and full day April 24, 2020. Attendance by invitation!
Klimaschutz, das schränkt uns nur ein, da wird unsere individuelle Freiheit beschnitten, sagen Gegner. Dabei ist es der Klimawandel, der Wohlstand und Freiheit reduziert.Der ehemalige Unionsfraktionschef Friedrich Merz spitzte vor Kurzem die Bedenken der Klimaschutzgegnerinnen und -gegner in der Formulierung zu: "Es geht gegen unsere freiheitliche Lebensweise, um die Zerstörung der marktwirtschaftlichen ...
