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Familiäre Verpflichtungen spielen eine große Rolle für erwartetes Gehalt: Interview mit Andreas Leibing

Survivor benefits and conjugal behavior. Evidence from the Netherlands

The Long Run Impact of Expulsion of Germans (1944-1950) on Anti-Refugee Voting

The political consequences of refugees for receiving countries have received much attention in recent years and have sparked a burgeoning literature. However, evidence on the long-run consequences of refugees is lacking. The expulsion of 8 million Germans (so-called expellees) from Eastern Europe to post-WWII West Germany serves as a natural experiment that allows us to estimate the long-run...

15. Workshop der Panelsurveys im deutschsprachigen Raum

Der Workshop ist ein Forum für Wissenschaftler*innen, die Panelstudien planen und durchführen. Im Rahmen des Workshops besteht die Möglichkeit aktuelle Themen und Befunde der Umfrageforschung sowie erhebungspraktische Herausforderungen und Innovationen in Panelstudien zu diskutieren. Die präsentierten Themen sollen dabei explizit in einem Bezug zu der Erhebung von Panelstudien stehen. Sehr gerne...

SOEPcampus after Work -

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...

DIW-Energieökonomin Claudia Kemfert erhält Bayerischen Naturschutzpreis

DIW-Ökonomin Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), Professorin an der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg sowie stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Sachverständigenrats für Umweltfragen (SRU), ist mit dem Bayerischen Naturschutzpreis 2022 ausgezeichnet worden. Mit dem Preis würdigt ...

A Higher Retirement Age Has Negative Health Effects

In the policy debate, there are regular demands to further increase the retirement age to address the financial challenges for the pension system. However, a prolonged working life impacts a person’s health. Detailed data from the statutory health insurance companies shows that abolishing the “Rente für Frauen” (women’s pension) in 1999, which allowed women to retire at 60, resulted in negative health ...

Application Portal for the GC PhD Program 2023 Is Now Open

Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2023) began on November 14, 2022. The deadline is February 12, 2023. We look forward to your application! Apply here!

Application Portal for the GC PhD Program 2023 Is now Open

Start of the next application period for our PhD programm (cohort starting in 2023) began on November 14, 2022. The deadline is February 12, 2023. We look forward to your application! Apply here!

Charitable Giving and Income: Households with High Income Donate Less than Poorer Households Relative to Their Disposable Income

For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3 billion euros in 2019, despite the fact that fewer individuals donated and the donation rate was lower (46.8 ...