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Jonas Jessen receives BeNA Innovative Research Award

Jonas Jessen, doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center and research assistant in the Education and Family Department, receives the BeNA Innovative Research Award 2019. We congratulate Jonas for the award, which is presented annually by the Berlin Network for Employment Research (BeNA) for outstanding scientific contributions. For his paper with the title "A Firm-Side Perspective on Parental Leave ...

Jonas Jessen erhält den BeNA Innovative Research Award

Jonas Jessen, Doktorand am DIW Graduate Center und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Bildung und Familie, hat den BeNA Innovative Research Award 2019 gewonnen. Wir gratulieren Jonas für die Auszeichnung, die jährlich vom Berliner Netzwerk für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA) für herausragende wissenschaftliche Beiträge verliehen wird. Für sein Paper mit dem ...

Am 5. Dezember 2019 ehrte das DIW Berlin die diesjährigen AbsolventInnen des Graduate Centers, des BDPEMS und die Promovierten am DIW.

Am 5. Dezember 2019 ehrte das DIW Berlin die diesjährigen AbsolventInnen des Graduate Centers, des BDPEMS und die Promovierten am DIW. In einer Feierstunde gratulierte DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher allen frisch gebackenen Promovierten und GC Vize-Dekan Carsten Schröder überreichte die Urkunden. Umrahmt wurde das Programm von Benedikt Bindewald (Violine) und Tabea Schrenk ...

The Challenges of Spatial and Temporal Aggregation: Modelling Issues, Applications, and Policy Implications: Editorial

The effect of xenophobic attacks on refugees’ mental health

The high prevalence of forced migration in recent years has induced a shift in attitudes towards immigrants and refugees and, in turn, increasing xenophobic violence. We address this topic and estimate the effect of xenophobic attacks against refugee shelters on refugees’ mental health. For this purpose, we combine two innovative data sets: administrative records on xenophobic crime by...

Causal machine learning under unconfoundedness

International Dimensions of Fiscal Policy

Masterclasses are a series of one or two day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Masterclasses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and...

Machine learning methods for high-dimensional data in Economics

Minicourses are a series of one or two day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Minicourses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and...

Does Subsidized Care for Toddlers Increase Maternal Labor Supply?

Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children’s development and enhance mothers’ labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on ...

The Effect of a Ban on Gender‐Based Pricing on Risk Selection in the German Health Insurance Market

Starting from December 2012, insurers in the European Union were prohibited from charging gender‐discriminatory prices. We examine the effect of this unisex mandate on risk segmentation in the German health insurance market. Although gender used to be a pricing factor in Germany's private health insurance (PHI) sector, it was never used as a pricing factor in the social health insurance (SHI) sector. ...