Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

Disentangling Demand and Supply Shocks in the Crude Oil Market: How to Check Sign Restrictions in Structural VARs

Given the growing dissatisfaction with exclusion and long-run restrictions in structural vector autoregressive analysis, sign restrictions are becoming increasingly popular. So far there are no techniques for validating the shocks identified via such restrictions. Although in an ideal setting the sign restrictions specify shocks of interest, sign restrictions may be invalidated by measurement...

Chinese Renewable Energy Technology Exports: The Role of Policy, Innovation and Markets

Intermediate Merger Incentives in a Three-Tier Industry Structure

Responsive Adjustment of Feed-in Tariffs to Dynamic PV Technology Development

Impact of Ageing on the Long-Term Care Workforce in Germany

Monetizing Privacy: Evidence from a Study on Privacy for ENISA

Socioeconomic and Political Prospects of the Palestinian People through the Lens of Conflict

Introduction to the Workshop

Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys

Bringing the Bank to the Doorstep: Uptake of a Financial Inclusion and Training Program

Employment Generation in Rural Africa

Stop Smoking, Your Paycheck Will Thank You! Wage Effects of Smoking Cessation

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Der Energiemarkt der Zukunft: Überblicksvortrag

Markt- und Systemtransformation ¿Die Zukunft des Strommarktes¿: Podiumsdiskussion

Analyzing Health Risks, Early Retirement and Saving Behavior with a Structural Life-Cycle Model

This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the relationship between health risks, early retirement and saving behavior for employees in Germany. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model with a discretized saving decision. The model accounts for both forward looking behavior and unobserved heterogeneity which is specified seminonparametrically. Health...

Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with lower health or socioeconomic...

Access to Product Markets and Child Labour: Survey Evidence from Rural Uganda

The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find that...

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

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...