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Personality in the Classroom: Interactions of Parental SES and Students’ Big Five in Predicting School Performance

While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...

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Economic Insecurity: Trade Dependencies and Their Weaponization in History

Do trade dependencies leave countries vulnerable to geopolitical coercion? We study the economic costs of trade and financial sanctions, from 1920 to the present. We first develop a continuous measure of sanction intensity, using bilateral commodity-level data to calculate the importance of specific flows that fall under sanctions. We find that sanctions inflict relatively small costs on average: sanctioning ...

Hegemonic Globalization

How do shifts in the global balance of power shape the world economy? We propose a theory of alignment-based “hegemonic globalization,” built on two central premises: countries differ in their preferences over policies (such as the rule of law or regulatory frameworks) and trade between any two countries increases with the degree of alignment in these policies. Hegemons promote policy alignment and ...

#37 Bonusfolge Wissenschaftskommunikation: Balanceakt zwischen Erklärbär und Nerd

Aktuell ist bei uns so viel los, dass wir viel weniger neue Folgen aufnehmen können als wir gerne würden. Daher gibt es heute eine kleine Bonusfolge, die im Kontext des 100-Jahre-Jubiläums des DIW Berlin entstanden ist. Wolf spricht mit Erich Wittenberg über das Wissenschafts-Podcasten: über die Zielgruppe von fossilfrei, über die Frage, ob man mit unserem „abgenerdeten“ Format eigentlich nur die...

Heat Monitor 2024: Following the Energy Crisis, Prices for Heating Energy Sources Are Developing Very Differently

In 2024, the heating energy demand of households in Germany remained at a similar level as in 2023. Thus, the heating energy savings achieved during the energy crisis were maintained, as data from real estate service provider ista SE show. Compared to 2023, CO₂ emissions fell by three percent after adjusting for temperature. Although heating energy prices rose on average by only 6.2 percent in 2024, ...

LIVESTREAM: Industrial policy and free trade – Managing tensions, exploiting synergies

Free, fair, and diversified trade plays a crucial role in the development of new technologies and thus also in the success of industrial and innovation policy strategies. Access to critical raw materials and other inputs, such as semiconductors or steel scrap, is often a prerequisite for the development of new technologies, including in the important areas of digitalization and decarbonization. At...

DIW Wochenbericht - das Interview

DIW Wochenbericht - das Interview

Podcasts am DIW Berlin: „Wissenschaft muss kommunizieren“

In dieser Folge des DIW-Podcasts spricht Host Erich Wittenberg mit Wolf-Peter Schill , Leiter des Forschungsbereichs Transformation der Energiewirtschaft und Co-Host des Energiewende-Podcasts f ossilfrei . Der Podcast läuft mittlerweile seit über zwei Jahren. Das Gespräch ist ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der Wissenschaftskommunikation und zeigt, warum Podcasts immer wichtiger für ...

Podcasts am DIW Berlin: „Wissenschaft muss kommunizieren“

In dieser Folge spricht Erich Wittenberg mit Energiewende-Experte und fossilfrei-Host Wolf-Peter Schill über die Bedeutung von Wissenschaftskommunikation – und warum Podcasts dabei eine besondere Rolle spielen. Schill berichtet, warum der Energiewende-Podcast entstand: „Wir haben unheimlich viel Material, lass uns doch auch mal darüber sprechen.“ Gleichzeitig zeigt er, wie herausfordernd die...