DIW Berlin, Humboldt University and WZB are jointly organizing a workshop on Gender Economics. The aim of this workshop is to bring together an international group of labor and experimental economists. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Dynamics of gender gaps in education and labor market outcomes Interactions between gender norms, institutions and economic outcomes The role ...
Mit seiner Forschung zu den gesundheitlichen Folgen von Arbeitslosigkeit für die PartnerInnen der Betroffenen hat Jan Marcus die Jury der Joachim Herz Stiftung überzeugt und den mit 25.000 Euro dotierten Preis gewonnen. Marcus ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter in der Abteilung Bildung und Familie am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) und Juniorprofessor an der ...
Kazakhstan envisions a transition towards a green economy in the next decades, which poses an immense challenge as the country's economy and energy system depends heavily on hydrocarbon resources. Here, it lacks inclusive and transparent tools assessing technical, economic, and environmental implications resulting from changes in its electricity system. We present such a tool: our comprehensive techno-economic ...
When designing stated-choice experiments modellers may consider offering respondents an “indifference” alternative to avoid stochastic choices when utility differences between alternatives are perceived as too small. By doing this, the modeller avoids adding white noise to the data and may gain additional information. This paper proposes a framework to model discrete choices in the presence of indifference ...
