The coronavirus pandemic has affected the Gulf countries in a particular way. In addition to the direct consequences of the pandemic, the spread of the coronavirus has led to a collapse in demand for the Gulf countries’ most important source of revenue: oil. Its price, which had fallen initially due to the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, collapsed in spring 2020. Although it recovered somewhat ...
Martin Gerike, Fachangestellter für Markt- und Sozialforschung am SOEP, wurde mit dem Leibniz-Auszubildendenpreis 2020 ausgezeichnet. Prämiert wurden insgesamt 3 Auszubildende in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, die neben sehr guten fachlichen Leistungen ein überdurchschnittliches Engagement über die Ausbildung hinaus zeigten. Martin Gerike (21) durchlief im Sozio-oekonomischen Panel ...
What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land traversing political, linguistic, geological, and religious borders in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible. Using a geographic regression...
Maximilian Schäfer has successfully defended his dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin in November 2020. The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin, University of Copenhagen). Maximilian was a PhD student in the ...
