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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Over the last decade, there has been a growing interest in the association between 2D:4D, a putative marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, and economic preferences. The results are mixed, and part of the inconclusiveness may come from the typically limited sample sizes as well as the many “researcher degrees of freedom” in the analysis. To firmly test if 2D:4D is associated...
17.07.2019| Levent Neyse
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Berlin IO Day
The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop sponsored by the Berlin Centre for Consumer Policies (BCCP) and supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of...
20.09.2019
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Workshop
The goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars from the social sciences working on the various aspects of human consumption of animal products. We want to engage in a discussion about what we know and do not know about the consumption of meat and dairy, its economic and environmental consequences, as well as possible ways to design effective interventions. Topics include, but are not...
08.10.2019
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Workshop
Educational outcomes are crucial for social participation and labor market opportunities. To develop strategies to improve people’s social and economic prospects, governments are increasingly interested in international comparisons of educational opportunities and outcomes. The workshop ‘Comparative Analysis of Longitudinal Data on Educational Outcomes’ aims to describe and...
27.11.2019
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SOEPpapers 1043 / 2019
This paper examines experienced well-being of employed and unemployed workers. We use the survey-adapted day reconstruction method (DRM) of the Innovation Sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP-IS) to analyze the role of the employment status for well-being, incorporating complete time use. Summarizing the average share of pleasurable minutes, we generate the P-index. We show that - ...
2019| Tobias Wolf, Maria Metzing, Richard E. Lucas
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SOEPpapers 1041 / 2019
Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in preferences. Using a large panel data set, I find that within-person changes in happiness, anger, and fear have substantial effects on risk attitudes and patience. Robustness ...
2019| Armando N. Meier
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SOEPpapers 1042 / 2019
This study provides new evidence on the levels of economic integration experienced by foreigners and naturalised immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile regression models by employing a regression of the (recentered) influence function (RIF) of the gross hourly wage on a rich set of explanatory variables. This approach ...
2019| Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
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Statement
In einem Sondergutachten hat sich der Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung möglichen Reformen in der Klimapolitik gewidmet. Dazu ein Statement der DIW-Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert:
12.07.2019| Claudia Kemfert
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DIW Roundup 130 / 2019
Although households in developing and emerging countries are relatively poor, there is potential to save. For example, one study estimates that up to 8.1% of a poor household’s budget in such countries is spent on so-called temptation goods, like alcohol, tobacco, and festivals (Banerjee and Duflo, 2007). At the same time, many households are aware of the fact that they do not save enough. They name ...
2019| Eva Haaser, Melanie Koch
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Blog Marcel Fratzscher
Dieser Beitrag ist am 11. Juli in der ZEIT ONLINE–Kolumne „Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen“ erschienen. Hier finden Sie alle Beiträge von Marcel Fratzscher.
Das Grundgesetz verpflichtet die Politik dazu, für die Gleichwertigkeit der Lebensbedingungen überall in Deutschland zu sorgen. Endlich scheint die Bundesregierung diese Aufgabe wieder für sich entdeckt zu ...
11.07.2019| Marcel Fratzscher