-
DIW Discussion Papers 1772 / 2018
Understanding whether laws shape or simply reflect citizens’ attitudes is important but empirically difficult. We provide new evidence on this question by studying the relationship between legal same-sex relationship recognition policies (SSRRPs) and attitudes towards sexual minorities in Europe. Using data from the European Social Surveys covering 2002-2016 and exploiting variation in the timing of ...
2018| Cevat G. Aksoy, Christopher S. Carpenter, Ralph de Haas, Kevin Tran
-
Statement
DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher äußert sich zum Auftakt des G20-Treffens in Buenos Aires:
30.11.2018| Marcel Fratzscher
-
Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Identification schemes are of essential importance in structural analysis. This paper focuseson testing a commonly used long-run structural parameter identification scheme claiming to identifyfundamental and non-fundamental shocks to stock prices. Five related widely used structural modelson assessing stock price determinants are considered. All models are either specified in vector errorcorrection ...
In:
Quantitative Finance and Economics
2 (2018), 1, S. 106-126
| Anton Velinov
-
Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
This paper assesses fiscal-policy sustainability. A sufficient condition for this is that public debt is on a stationary trajectory. This is tested by means of a very general Markov-switching augmented Dickey-Fuller (MS-ADF) model, which expands and improves simpler existing models of this type, and produces more reliable results than conventional state-invariant unit-root tests. Long data series (in ...
In:
Finanzarchiv
71 (2015), 4, S. 415-439
| Anton Velinov
-
Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
General well-being is known to deteriorate sharply at the end of life. However, it is an open question howrates of terminal change differ across affective and evaluative facets of well-being and if individualdifference correlates operate in facet-specific ways. We examined how discrete affective states (happy,angry, fearful, sad) and satisfaction with key life domains (health, leisure, family) change ...
In:
Developmental Psychology
54 (2018), 12, S. 2382-2402
| Denis Gerstorf, Gizem Hülür, Gert G. Wagner, Ute Kunzmann, Nilam Ram
-
Dossiers
DIW Berlin has a long tradition of conducting research beyond core economic topics and covering important issues regarding Germany’s society and its social structures. Here you can find the institute’s English-language publications covering a wide range of topics such as the country’s education system, social mobility, and gender issues.
13.02.2026
-
Publikation
Vielleicht haben Sie es der Presse bereits entnommen: Anfang November erschien der neue Datenreport mit etlichen Beiträgen auf Basis des SOEP, der auch online abrufbar ist: Datenreport 2018. Ein Sozialbericht für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Der Datenreport als Instrument politischer Bildung entsteht seit vielen Jahren in Kooperation der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung ...
23.11.2018
-
Bericht
From November 5 to 7, DIW Berlin hosted the SOEP’s first international workshop on longitudinal data management and analysis. In contrast to our regular German SOEP workshops, this one was devoted specifically to comparative longitudinal and cross-country designs using the SOEP and its international sister household panels. Paula Fomby of the University of Michigan and Marco Giesselmann of the ...
22.11.2018
-
Bericht
The 2018 summer school for early-stage researchers combined advanced research on the integration of refugees and migrants with training in the use of a clone of EU-SILC longitudinal data for Germany. The clone was created with the help of SOEP data and is especially valuable in the study of methodological issues in migration research. The different migration subsamples in the SOEP allow more detailed ...
22.11.2018| Maria Metzing
-
DIW Weekly Report 46/47 / 2018
Is the German manufacturing industry, which has been leaving cities for less densely populated areas since World War II, being lured back into urban centers? This report analyses industrial start-ups from 2012 to 2016 and derives their preferred locations. The analysis shows that the start-up intensity in large agglomerations is on average almost 40 percent higher than in the other regions of Germany. ...
2018| Martin Gornig, Axel Werwatz