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Pandemic-Ready Data: Linking the Socio-Economic Panel with Administrative Health Records

The COVID-19 pandemic exposed significant weaknesses in Germany’s ability to generate timely, equity-sensitive evidence at the household level. While national surveillance systems produced daily counts of confirmed cases, hospitalisations, and deaths, they offered little insight into the social and economic conditions shaping the spread and impact of the virus. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), ...

The Early Bird Gets the Germs? The Impact of Early Daycare Attendance on Children’s Health

In recent decades, the share of very young children in daycare has significantly increased in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the critical role of child health in development and later life success, the impact of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. This study examines the effects of a substantial daycare expansion in Germany on ...

Split Between Accelerationists, Pivoters, and the Unwavering: CEE Energy Policy Responses to Russia’s 2022 Invasion

Dynamic Networks of Social Contact, Social Desire, and Affect Across Time Scales

Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...

Fuel Taxation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from the World’s Largest Environmental Tax Reform

We investigate how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities by evaluating the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Using spatially detailed emissions data from more than 1,000 European regions in a synthetic difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the impact of Germany’s 1999 ecological tax reform on transport-related carbon and air pollutant emissions. We document sizable ...

Fuel Taxation and Environmental Externalities: Evidence from the World’s Largest Environmental Tax Reform

We investigate how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities by evaluating the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Using spatially detailed emissions data from more than 1,000 European regions in a synthetic difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the impact of Germany’s 1999 ecological tax reform on transport-related carbon and air pollutant emissions. We document sizable ...

Deutsche Wirtschaft hat sich stabilisiert, 2026 dürfte besser laufen

Die deutsche Wirtschaft ist 2025 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 0,2 Prozent gewachsen, wie das Statistische Bundesamt heute bekannt gegeben hat. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Konjunkturchefin des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

Eine Abschiebeoffensive wäre ökonomischer Unsinn

Die CSU will Hunderttausende abschieben. Das wäre ein Wohlstandsrisiko. Flüchtlinge arbeiten oft in systemrelevanten Berufen und stabilisieren die Sozialkassen.   Die CSU hat eine Abschiebeoffensive vorgeschlagen – mit Linienflügen nach Afghanistan und Syrien. Das wäre für Deutschland ein ökonomisches Eigentor und ein gesellschaftlicher Rückschritt. Der CSU-Vorschlag ist reiner Populismus. Er widerspricht ...

Quantile Selection in the Gender Pay Gap

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. Our method employs instrumental variables that explain variation in the latent variable but, conditional on the latent process, do not directly affect selection. We provide semiparametric identification of the quantile parameters without imposing parametric restrictions on the selection probability, derive the ...

Since the 1950s, apartments in Germany have grown by an average of 25 square meters – but by 2050, they could become smaller again