Every week the DIW Wochenbericht features one or two research studies of current political relevance. Concise and up-to-date, these include clearly presented data compilations and incisive comments and they are scientifically founded as well as easily understood. The DIW Wochenbericht is in German but offers abstracts in English. Selected articles of the DIW Wochenbericht are published in English ...
Der DIW Weekly Report ist eine wöchentlich erscheinende englischsprachige Publikation. Im DIW Weekly Report werden ausgewählte Artikel und Interviews aus dem DIW Wochenbericht veröffentlicht. Die Ausgaben von 2011 bis 2017 erschienen unter dem Titel DIW Economic Bulletin .
The DIW Weekly Report is a DIW Berlin online publication. Every week selected articles of the Wochenbericht are being published online in English.
Background: Marijuana use carries risks for adolescents’ well-being, making it essential to evaluate effects of recent marijuana policies.Objectives: This study sought to delineate associations between state-level shifts in decriminalization and medical marijuana laws (MML) and adolescent marijuana use.Methods: Using data on 861,082 adolescents (14 to 18+ years; 51% female) drawn from 1999 to 2015 ...
Over the course of 2013 to 2016, over one million asylum seekers arrived in Germany, around 890,000 of them in 2015 alone. The growing refugee population posed a major challenge for Germany’s policy makers, civic administrators, and society at large, in finding new approaches to registration procedures, housing, and social and economic integration. To design policies and programs that meet these needs, ...
Offen ausgetragene Lagerdebatten zwischen Ökonomen sind in Deutschland eher selten. Was hingegen häufiger in der Berichterstattung über Ökonomen mitschwingt, ist eine Zuordnung in weltanschauliche Lager, etwa nach Schemata wie arbeitgeber-/arbeitnehmernah oder auch gelegentlich links/marktliberal. Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Verortung von Ökonomen anhand der Nähe in den Netzwerken von Fachkollegen ...
Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial incentives of the German public insurance schemes. The estimation uses data on male employees and an extended expectation-maximization ...
