Sascha dos Santos and his co-authors were honored for their contribution to the European Sociological Review entitled "Does training beget training over the life course? Cumulative advantage in work-related non-formal training participation in Germany and the UK" by the interdisciplinary jury of the Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories (LIfBi) as one of this year's two winning teams of the ...
Neil Murray hat am 10. Dezember seine Dissertation mit dem Titel „The Dynamics of Risk Preferences: Empirical Perspectives on Adaption and Behavior“ erfolgreich an der Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) verteidigt. Die Kommission bestand aus Prof. Dr. Carsten Schröder (Betreuer und Erstgutachter, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus (Zweitgutachter, FU Berlin), Prof. Natalia Danzer, Ph.D. (FU Berlin), ...
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 ...
Dass man als Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitut für neue und unkonventionelle Vorschläge nicht immer nur Beifall erhält, liegt in der Natur der Sache. Der sogenannte Boomer-Soli hat allerdings im Sommer 2025 für ungewöhnlich viel Aufregung gesorgt und dem DIW Berlin einiges an Kritik eingebracht. „Habt Ihr sie noch alle, Ihr Rentenforscher“ hieß es auf dem Titel der BILD-Zeitung, von der „toxischen Umverteilungshölle“ ...
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This paper analyses determinants of pass-through for Germany’s 2022 temporary fuel discount at its implementation and subsequent termination. Based on a unique dataset of fuel station characteristics and prices, we employ a two-stage Regression Discontinuity in Time (RDiT) methodology to estimate spatial pass-through variation. Our findings indicate that horizontal and vertical market structures exert ...
