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Masterclasses start at 9:30 and end around 18:00, unless noted otherwise. If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de. The masterclass will take place at Schumpeter Hall of the DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin.Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage. The ...

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Dirk Bergemann, YaleIf you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de. The masterclass will take place at Room 5.2.010 of the DIW Berlin, Mohrenstr. 58, 10117 Berlin. Here you can find the syllabus of the course. Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage. The Masterclasses ...

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Agenda and PresentationsDr. Christian Hey, German Advisory Council on the Environment (SRU) / European Environment and Sustainable Development Councils (EEAC): 100% Renewable Electricity by 2050Dr. Felix Chr. Matthes, Öko-Institute for Applied Ecology: Blueprint Germany

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Matthias Schonlau, Rand CorporationMartin Kroh, DIW Berlin AbstractThe first wave of a household panel survey captures a cross section of the population at one point in time. However, target population and household composition change over time. Following rules are introduced to decide which household members are still surveyed after they leave the household. We compare following rules of ...

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Michael Weinhardt, DIW Berlin In household panel surveys, interviewers' first task is to secure respondents' cooperation, i.e. initial response and response over time. A second task is to collect and record precise information on the respondents. Previous studies have shown that the 'Big-Five' personality trait conscientiousness is significantly related to general indicators of job performance. In ...

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Jayant Ganguli, CambridgeMasterclasses start at 9:30 and end around 18:00, unless noted otherwise. If you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW and BDPEMS.

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 Anne Fräßdorf, Universität Bamberg

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 Eva M. Berger, DIW BerlinRecent economic literature found that noncognitive skills play an important role in economic and social success like educational attainment and employment outcomes. In particular for employment probabilities, some studies even conclude that noncognitive skills have a larger impact than cognitive skills and that this pattern is especially pronounced for women. ...

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Agenda and PresentationsOttmar Edenhofer, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research: Emission trading, linking, and offsettingFelix Matthes, Öko-Institute for Applied Ecology: Emission trading, linking, and offsetting

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Jürgen Faik, FaMa - Neue Frankfurter SozialforschungDer Vortrag befasst sich mit Trends der Lebenszufriedenheit und der Zufriedenheit in einzelnen Lebensbereichen sowohl in West- als auch in Ostdeutschland. Diese Form der Analyse ist teilweise in einen internationalen Kontext eingebunden. Außerdem werden querschnittsbezogene Strukturen zur Lebenszufriedenheit präsentiert. Ein ...

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Peter ValetStefan Liebig, Universitäg BielefeldEmpirical research on distributive justice seeks to identify justice perceptions in a society which can be considered as patterns that legitimate inequalities. Therefore the analysis of distributive justice evaluations primarily focuses on the perceived justice of (labour) incomes. So far empirical justice research using large scale survey data ...

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Anne Busch, DIW BerlinAlthough women and men nowadays are similarly work-oriented and show a comparable human capital accumulation (e.g. concerning education), most women still work in typical "women's jobs" and most men in typical "men's jobs". While there exists much research about consequences of working in gender typical or atypical occupations, only few studies analyze ...

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Jointly organized with BENA lecture series (3 lectures of 90 mins).The lectures will be largely based on the recently published book "Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion" by Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke. Topics covered in the lectures include:(1) Basics in regression analysis: The role of control variables and measurement error(2) Grouped data and two ...

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Man Yee Kann, University of OxfordAbstract:Sequence analysis is a useful tool for analysing time diary data, which provide detailed information about frequency and duration of daily activities (e.g. paid work, housework, leisure and rest) as well as sequences of these activities. We conduct optimal matching analyses (OM) on "workweek-grid" data from the UK Time Use Survey (2000-01) and ...

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Agenda and PresentationsHani El Nokraschy, DESERTEC Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board: The Deserts as Everlasting Power Houses for Security of Electricity and WaterChristian von Hirschhausen and Florian Leuthold, TU Berlin/TU Dresden: The Economics of DESERTEC

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Luigi Guiso, European University Institute, FlorenceIf you want to participate, or have a question, please send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS. 

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Thomas Siedler, DIW BerlinSilke Anger, DIW BerlinMichael Kvasnicka, RWI Essen - Büro Berlin This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were introduced gradually in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke ...

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Philipp Schmidt-Dengler, LSEIf you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS. 

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Agenda and PresentationsUlf Moslener, KfW Development Bank, Energy Sector and Policy Division Asia: Tech Transfer and Climate Change: A Development-Cooperation-PerspectiveDominic Marcellino, Ecologic Institute in Washington DC: An Assessment of Current Technology Transfer Proposals and Key Mechanisms for Diffusion

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Jörg Breitung, BonnIf you want to participate please, or have a question, send an email to gweizsaecker@diw.de.Affiliates of the Berlin Doctoral Program in Economics and Management Science (BDPEMS) can also register on the BDPEMS webpage.The Masterclasses are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin and BDPEMS. 

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