Vorträge des DIW Berlin

SOEP-Innovation Sample - SOEP-IS

The Day Reconstruction Method in Face-to-Face-Interviews in the German Socio-Economic Panel

The Impact of the Welfare State on Divorce Risk and the Role of Risk Attitudes in Germany

How Does Day-Care Availability Affect Parental Well-being? Disentangling Contradictory Mechanisms

Recent Developments in the SOEP

The Family of SOEP Longitudinal Studies

How Does Availability of County-Level Care Characteristics Shape Late-Life Development in Well-Being?

The Long-Term Impact of Motivation on Survival in Self-Employment and on Firm Growth

Do Media Data Help to Predict German Industrial Production?

Gas, Tax and Cars: How Does Differential Fuel Taxation Impact New Car Purchases?

The Role of Visible Wealth for Deprivation

The Short-Run Costs of Moving: Internal Migration and Consumption Growth in Indonesia

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

Financial Development and Employment: Evidence from Transition Countries

The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Child Health: Evidence from Mongolia

Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und die Liberalisierung des Fernbusverkehrs in Deutschland

Ein Überblick zu methodischen Fragen der Wegekostenrechnung

The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to Mass-Releases from Prisons in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Risk Forecasting in (T)GARCH Models with Uncorrelated Dependent Innovations

Starting with their introduction by Engle (1982) and Bollerslev (1986) (G)ARCH type models have proven quite useful for the dynamic modelling and forecasting of risk attached to speculative asset returns. While the symmetric and conditionally Gaussian GARCH model has been generalized in a magnifold of directions, model innovations are uniformly presumed to stem from an underlying iid distribution....

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition...