Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Über vierzig Jahre Sozialberichterstattung und Lebensqualitätsforschung in Deutschland – ein Blick in die Vergangenheit und Perspektiven für die Zukunft

Chair der Session: Aktuelle Entwicklungen zu Indikatorensystemen

Gerechte Steuerpolitik – was bringt uns welche Steuer? Wirtschaftliche und politische Auswirkungen unterschiedlicher Steuerinstrumente

The Impact of Startups for our Economies: Keynote

A Search and Matching Approach to Business-Cycle Migration in the Euro Area

Floating with a Load of FX Debt?

Was ich für Frauen in Deutschland fordere: Leitgedanken

ManagerinnenBarometer 2016

Übersicht der Aktivitäten zu Forschungsinfrastrukturen in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft: Aktivitäten auf nationaler Ebene

Peer Effects in Parental Leave Decisions

Eine kluge Energiewende ist nicht zu teuer

Information Asymmetries between Parents and Educators in German Day Care Institutions

How Does Education Improve Cognitive Skills? Instructional Time versus Timing of Instruction

This paper investigates two mechanisms through which education may affect cognitive skills in adolescence, exploiting a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment to identify causal effects: Between 2001 and 2007, years at academic-track high school were reduced by one, leaving the overall curriculum unchanged. First, I exploit the variation over time and...

Job Search with Biased Expectations

Moving Home during Early Childhood: Better Sooner than Later?

Do Rewards Reduce Effort? Evidence from University Exams

This paper investigates the effects of receiving a reward on effort of college freshmen. In our case, students could earn bonus points for their final exam if they passed a mid-term pre-exam. Based on administrative data from University records, we compare students who barely passed the pre-exam to those who failed in the exam. Difference-in-differences and regression discontinuity estimations...

Political Corruption in the Execution of Public Contracts: A Principal-Agent Analysis

Comments and Discussion on ‘A Unique Contribution’ by Nick Donovan

Overcoming the Valley of Death in the Materials Sector

An Economic Assessment of Soil Carbon Sequestration with Biochar in Germany