Vorträge des DIW Berlin

The Role of Government Policy in the Development of Solar Photovoltaic Power

Trick or Treat? Maternal Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Are Uzbeks Better Off? Economic Welfare and Ethnicity in Uganda

Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the choice of the appropriate weight matrix. We find positive knowledge spillover effects via...

La religiosité des immigrés et de leurs descendants en Allemagne: facteurs explicatifs et effets sur le processus d'intégration

Processus de relégation ethno-culturelle en Allemagne et en France: structuration institutionnelle des parcours scolaires et professionnels et rapport aux institutions des descendants d¿immigrés

SOEPlong: How to Restructure Complex Longitudinal Survey Data: An Application for the German Socio-Economic Panel Study

Correlation Neglect in Financial Decision-Making

The Effect of Job Loss on Health-Related Behaviour

Discussant: Financial Crises, Credit Booms and External Imbalances

Differences in the Pattern of In-work Poverty between Germany and Great Britain: What Role Does Union Power Play?

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

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...

Umfrageforschung - Entscheidungsgrundlage für Politik und Wirtschaft: Einführung in das Thema

Das Verhältnis von Theorie und Praxis in der umfragebasierten Politikberatung: Keynote Speech

Frauen und Männer in Führungspositionen

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...

Are Uzbeks Better Off? Economic Welfare and Ethnicity in Kyrgyzstan

Financial Integration and Macroeconomic Stability: What Role do Heterogeneous Banks Play?

The Global Economic Costs of Conflict

The Effects of Conflict on Fertility in Rwanda