On December 10, Neil Murray successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Dynamics of Risk Preferences: Empirical Perspectives on Adaptation and Behavior” at Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin). The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder (supervisor and first reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Natalia Danzer, Ph.D. (FU Berlin), Prof. ...
Social media has emerged as a pivotal platform for accessing news content today. While there appears to be a connection between news consumption on social media platforms and perceived knowledge of public affairs, little is known about the potential effect on specific issues like artificial intelligence (AI). To extend findings on people’s perceived knowledge of AI, how it relates to social media news ...
Was können Forscher*innen machen, wenn sie ein Thema erforschen wollen, zu dem es keine Daten aus Deutschland gibt? Antwort: Sie nehmen Daten aus anderen Ländern. Denn die Forschungsdateninfrastruktur ist in etlichen anderen Ländern besser als bei uns. Am DIW Berlin beschäftigen sich verschiedene Wissenschaftler*innen mit Fragestellungen, für die deutsche Daten fehlen. Wir betrachten drei Themen für ...
With Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede In times of an increasing scarcity of workers, Germany has in a rare move decreased the retirement age for a sizeable group of the workforce. This paper investigates the effect of this negative labor supply shock on firm and individual level outcomes using the universe of firms in the IEB as well as matched employer-employee data from...
Gemeinsame Arbeit mit: Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Jan Nimczik and Lennert Peede Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: "Firm Adjustment to a Policy-Induced Negative Labor Supply Shock: Evidence from Germany". Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!
We study how labor demand shocks affect workforce diversity in the absence of targeted diversity policies. Exploiting German reunification as a natural experiment, we analyze the academic labor market where nearly all social sciences professors in East Germany were replaced while STEM faculty remained largely unchanged. Using administrative data and a regional difference-in-differences design, we...
This paper constructs homogeneous time series of global household offshore wealth covering the 2001–2023 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb offshore tax evasion. We find that: (i) global offshore wealth remained broadly stable as a fraction of global GDP since 2001, following a sharp increase in the 1980s and 1990s; (ii) the location of offshore wealth changed ...
