Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Spillover Effects of Maternal Education on Child's Health and Schooling

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child¿s health and schooling outcomes in Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach that has not yet been used in the intergenerational context. For that purpose, we draw on a rich German panel data set (SOEP) containing information about three generations. This allows instrumenting maternal education by the...

Distributional and Welfare Effects of Germany's Year 2000 Tax Reform

This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany's year 2000 income tax reform. The reform is simulated in an ex-ante behavioral microsimulation approach. Dead weight loss of changes in capital income taxation is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant reductions in tax rates result in income...

Does Gender Affect Funding Success at the Peer-to-Peer Credit Markets?: Evidence from the Largest German Lending Platform

Studies of peer-to-peer lending in the USA find that female borrowers have better chances of getting funds than males. Is differential treatment of borrowers of different sexes a common feature of peer-to-peer lendingmarkets or is it subject to specific businessmodels, ways of fixing loan contracts and even national financial systems? We aim at answering this question by providing evidence on loan...

The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Ruanda

Interconnections of Cognitive and Affective Development during the Preschool Years

Marktmacht in Energiemärkten: Modellierungsergebnisse für den Rohölmarkt

Einführung in grundlegende Kategorien und Erhebungsmethoden in der Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung und erste Ergebnisse

Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass-Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed-Effects Model

The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions in Germany based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008. It focuses in particular on gender segregation in the labor market, that is, on the unequal distribution of women and men across different occupations and on the effects of this inequality on earnings levels and gender wage...

Occupational Gender Composition and Workplace Integration: What Role Do Gendered Work Contents Play?

Immigrant Occupational Composition and the Earnings of Immigrants and Natives in Germany

Eurorettung, Staatsverschuldung und Ratingagenturen

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

Beliefs and Actions in the Trust Game: Creating Instrumental Variables to Estimate the Causal Effect

Erfahrungen der Wiedervereinigung in Deutschland: Vortrag und Diskussion

Wissenschaftliche Stellungnahme

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

The Impact of Unions on the Patterns of In-work Poverty: Evidences from a Comparative Hierarchical Analysis of European Countries

Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data: An Application to Wealth Inequality Analyses

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a...

Money Demand and the Role of Monetary Indicators in Forecasting Euro Area Inflation

This paper examines the forecasting performance of a broad monetary aggregate (M3) in predicting euro area inflation. Excess liquidity is measured as the difference between the actual money stock and its fundamental value, the latter determined by a money demand function. The out-of sample forecasting performance is compared to widely used alternatives, such as the term structure of interest rates...

Regionalentwicklung und Ausgleichsmechanismen in den USA und im Euroraum