Welche wirtschaftlichen und sozialen Folgen hat die Corona-Pandemie aktuell und zukünftig für die Menschen in Deutschland? Dieser Frage gehen SOEP-Forschende gemeinsam mit WissenschaftlerInnen der Universität Bielefeld, des Robert-Koch-Instituts (RKI), der Charité Berlin und des Wissenschaftszentrums Berlin im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Sozio-oekonomische Faktoren und Folgen der Verbreitung...
Already after the financial crisis in 2008/2009 there was a debate on whether elements aiming at sustainable development can be part of the stimulus packages and support the recovery of the economy. Despite the instinct of policy makers to prioritise battle-tested policies during a crisis, significant levels and different types of climate-friendly components were integrated in the 2009 stimulus...
Already after the financial crisis in 2008/2009 there was a debate on whether elements aiming at sustainable development can be part of the stimulus packages and support the recovery of the economy. Despite the instinct of policy makers to prioritise battle-tested policies during a crisis, significant levels and different types of climate-friendly components were integrated in the 2009 stimulus packages ...
Prenatal androgens have organizational effects on brain and endocrine system development, which may have a partial impact on economic decisions. Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between prenatal testosterone and financial risk taking, yet results remain inconclusive. We suspect that this is due to difficulty in capturing risk preferences with expected utility based tasks. Prospect ...
The paper addresses the impact of digital health technologies on social inequalities in health. We set focus on mobile health technologies (mHealth) and analyse whether (a) usage of such technologies differs by educational level and (b) whether their usage moderate social inequalities in health satisfaction. We first develop a theoretical model in order to establish potential associations between social ...
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a correlated random effects model. Main results show that agreeableness and openness are the most important personality ...
Fünf ÖkonomInnen aus Wirtschaftsforschungsinstituten und Hochschulen, darunter C. Katharina Spieß vom DIW Berlin, haben Vorschläge für ein nachhaltiges Investitionsprogramm vorgelegt. Die zentralen Empfehlungen für den Bereich der Bildungsinvestitionen fasst Spieß, Leiterin der Abteilung Bildung und Familie am DIW Berlin, wie folgt zusammen:
