We are happy to announce the launch of the #ManyDaughters Study, an international research initiative exploring how having daughters influences behavior, preferences, and attitudes. Researchers from all fields of social sciences are invited to participate in this collaborative project, which will use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to test four key hypotheses on the impact of daughters ...
European climate policy was traditionally pursued in the expectation of global policy convergence, ensuring equal opportunities for domestic and foreign firms in achieving climate neutrality. However, increasing geopolitical fragmentation has disrupted this expectation. Across the globe, national strategies increasingly favor economic policies that benefit domestic industries and coercive economic ...
We examine the additivity of expectations over different time intervals. For example, when asked about 10-year stock price growth, survey respondents report an expected change that is not equal to, but closer to zero than, the sum of their expectations over two shorter time intervals that cover the same 10 years. Such subadditivity, which we also find in expectations for other economic variables, is ...
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Research into nuclear fusion for military purposes has been regularly conducted since the 1940s. However, the idea of being able to use nuclear power for power generation within mere decades has not come to fruition. While some successes have been highlighted by the media, such as the experiments at the National Ignition Facility in California at the end of 2022, the main problems remain as challenging ...
Liebe Leser*innen, liebe Kooperationspartner*innen, liebe Freund*innen des DIW Berlin, 2025 ist das Jahr, in dem wir 100 Jahre alt geworden sind. Deshalb haben wir uns dieses Jahr auch ein bisschen mit uns selbst beschäftigt und mit 100 Geschichten auf unsere Geschichte, unsere Erfolge, Mitarbeiter*innen und Themen zurückgeblickt. Die 100-Jahres-Webseite bietet einen Überblick über unsere verschiedenen ...
