SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus, spread across Germany within just a short period of time. Seroepidemiological studies are able to estimate the proportion of the population with antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 infection (seroprevalence) as well as the level of undetected infections, which are not captured in official figures. In the seroepidemiological study Corona Monitoring Nationwide (RKI-SOEP-2), biospecimens ...
Dieser Beitrag erschien im Handelsblatt. Vielen Zentralbanken fehlen die Instrumente, um die Inflation zügig zu senken. Die EZB sollte das zugeben und die Fiskalpolitik in die Pflicht nehmen, meint Marcel Fratzscher. Die Europäische Zentralbank hat gestern nicht nur viele mit einer stärker als erwarteten Erhöhung des Leitzinses überrascht, sondern sie hat in den vergangenen Wochen auch eine gefährliche ...
In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. ...
Food banks are returning to the spotlight as their use increases due to the coronavirus pandemic and the influx of Ukrainian refugees to Germany. The current discussion is focused on whether the food banks can handle the increasing number of users as well as the financial and organizational challenges that come with them. Until now, however, no robust, empirical data on food bank use has been available. ...
Users have the possibility to participate in two upcoming SOEPcampus events. SOEPcampus@Lunch: From next month on we offer an online workshop series over lunchtime as introduction to the data of the SOEP study. Participants will be introduced to the content of the study, its data-structure, sample selection and weighting strategy and they will be provided with an overview on the study documentation.To ...
