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From Concurrent to Push-To-Web Mixed-Mode: Experimental Design Change in the German Social Cohesion Panel

Research shows that concurrent and sequential self-administered mixed-mode designs both have advantages and disadvantages in terms of panel survey recruitment and maintenance. Since concurrent mixed-mode designs usually achieve higher initial response rates at lower bias than sequential mixed-mode designs, the former may be ideal for panel recruitment. However, concurrent designs producea high share ...

Construction of a Narrative Instrument for Government Investment

The article documents the construction of a narrative instrument for government investment, used in the paper ‘An Estimation and Decomposition of the Government Investment Multiplier’.

Working Longer: The Effects of a Higher Retirement Age on Work-Related Health Investments During the Working Life

Health investments are vital for maintaining physical and mental well-being throughout working life, and their importance is amplified with rising retirement ages due to demographic aging. This is the first study to examine if a longer working life causally increases institutionalized health investments. We explore the impact of a German pension reform that raised the retirement age by three years...

„Don’t change the women – change the system”

Elke Holst ist Pionierin der Genderforschung am DIW Berlin. In einer neuen Folge des DIW-Podcasts Wirtschaft bewegt – 100 Jahre DIW Berlin spricht Holst, die 32 Jahre am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) Berlin tätig war und maßgeblich den Forschungsbereich Gender Studies etablierte, über Geschlechterungleichheiten in Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft, über das von ihr mitentwickelten Mangerinnen-Barometer ...

Strukturdaten zur Produktion und Beschäftigung im Baugewerbe: Berechnungen für das Jahr 2023

The Reputation Effect of Repeated Green-Bond Issuance and Its Impact on the Cost of Capital

This study explores the effect of frequent green-bond issuance on a firm's financing costs. Using a sample of listed Swedish real estate companies issuing a total of 1074 bonds over the period from 2011 to 2021, difference-in-differences analyses and instrumental variable estimations are applied to identify the causal impact of frequent green-bond vis-à-vis frequent non-green-bond issuance on a firm's ...

Reply on “Comments on ‘Uncertainties in Estimating Production Costs of Future Nuclear Technologies: A Model-Based Analysis of Small Modular Reactors’ [Energy 281 (2023) 128204]”

This reply aims to address the points raised in an analysis provided in the comment entitled “Comments on ‘Uncertainties in estimating production costs of future nuclear technologies: A model-based analysis of small modular reactors’ [Energy 281 (2023) 128204]”, specifically on the used scaling coefficients and cost assumptions.

Plausibilisierung: Eine Handreichung zum Umgang mit inkonsistenten Daten in den Sozialwissenschaften

Die vorliegende Handreichung zeigt, dass in quantitativen, sozialwissenschaftlichen Erhebungen Unplausibilitäten entstehen können, die möglicherweise zu Auswertungsproblemen und Fehlanalysen führen. Ziel der Handreichung ist, die möglichen Probleme zu systematisieren und konkrete Hilfestellungen bei der Identifikation, dem Umgang und der Vermeidung von Unplausibilitäten zu geben. Außerdem werden Dokumentationsempfehlungen ...

Internationale Energieagentur irrt – Atomenergie hat keine Zukunft

Die Internationale Energieagentur (IEA) hat eine Studie veröffentlicht, derzufolge sie weltweit ein Comeback der Atomkraft erwartet. Dazu eine Einschätzung von Claudia Kemfert, Energieökonomin und Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):

Who Opts Out? The Customisation of Marriage in the German Matrimonial Property Regime

This study examines the prevalence of marital contracts across marriage cohorts (1990–2019) in Germany. We further investigate the characteristics of spouses who signed a marital contract. Using cross-sectional data from the German Family Panel (pairfam, 2018/19), we employ complementary log–log and multinomial logistic regression models to predict the prevalence and the type of marital contracts. ...