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  • January 9, 2013

    Seminar

    School Starting Age and Crime
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Rasmus Landersø (Rockwool Foundation Research Unit & Aarhus University) (joint with Helena Skyt Nielsen and Marianne Simonsen), Nils Saniter
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21A
    Spandauer Straße 1
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of school starting age on crime while relying on variation in school starting age induced by administrative rules; we exploit that Danish children typically start first grade in the year they turn seven, which gives rise to a discontinuity in children's school starting age. Analyses are carried out using register-based Danish data. We find that higher ...

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  • January 9, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    How learning a musical instrument affects educational achievement

    Speaker: Jürgen Schupp, Adrian Hille
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Learning a musical instrument during childhood may increase educational opportunities by improving cognitive skills, teaching non-cognitive skills or by sending positive signals to teachers. Our study tests these hypotheses with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which contains information on musical practice during childhood as well as detailed parental background characteristics. In ...

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  • December 19, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Die Nachfrage nach Energie, Mobilität und Freizeit und Auswirkungen der EEG-Umlage

    Speaker: Martin Beznoska
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Ein Nachfragesystem, dass Mobilität, Energiegüter und Freizeit (respektive Arbeitsangebot) einschließt, wird mit den Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichproben (EVS) der Jahre 1998, 2003 und 2008 geschätzt. Getrennt für Single- und Paarhaushalte werden Eigen- und Kreuzpreiselastizitäten berechnet, mit denen die Auswirkungen der EEG-Umlage simuliert werden. Die EEG-Umlage ...

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  • December 17, 2012

    Seminar

    The Empirical Analysis of Deterrence and Capital Punishment in America: A Description of a Failed Research Program

    Speaker: Prof. Steven Durlauf (Wisconsin)
    Location: ESMT’s ‘Garden View’ Room
    Schlossplatz 1 (Eingang)
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 12:00 -13:30 Uhr

    SEMINAR IS CANCELED Abstract:In this lecture I will provide an overview of empirical work on the deterrence effect of capital punishment, with an emphasis on my own work on the subject as well as a recent National Academy of Science Report of which I was a coauthor. The lecture will review the methodologies that have been applied to measure deterrence effects and explain why the National Academy ...

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  • December 7, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The effect of unemployment insurance on exit from employment

    Speaker: Conny Wunsch, University St. Gallen
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract: We investigate whether changes in the generosity of unemployment insurance (UI) affect exit from employment via UI. We exploit a recent reform of German UI that drastically reduced maximum benefit periods for workers aged 45 or older. Economic theory suggests that less generous UI makes employed workers more eager to keep their job, implying a reduction in unemployment entry after the ...

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  • December 5, 2012

    Seminar

    The Economics of Information: How Job Information Centers affect Educational Choices and Labor Market Outcomes
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: joint with Thomas Siedler, DIW Berlin, Nils Saniter
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper exploits the effects of job information centers in West Germany on pupils' educational and occupational choices, as well as on their labor market outcomes in later life. This paper contributes to the very sparse literature on the impacts of the public provision of labor market related information. We exploit the fact that West Germany job information centers were introduced at ...

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  • December 5, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Health risks and insurance against work incapacity over the life-cycle

    Speaker: Daniel Kemptner
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the links between individuals' health, labor market participation, wealth accumulation, and early retirement. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model which is estimated using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. A sequential Expectation-Maximization algorithm is used to obtain good starting ...

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  • November 28, 2012

    Seminar

    Reagan's Innovation Dividened? Technological Impacts of the 1980s US Defense Build-Up
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Mirko Draca (London School of Economics)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: US government spending since World War II has been characterized by large investments in defense related goods, services and R&D. In turn, this means that the Department of Defense (DoD) has had a large role in funding corporate innovation in the US. This paper looks at the impact of military procurement spending on corporate innovation among publicly traded firms for the period 196 ...

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  • November 21, 2012

    Seminar

    Sector choice, wages, firm structure, and tournament incentives: Evidence from comparing the Swedish private and public sectors
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Klaus Brösamle (Hertie School of Governance)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper studies the decision of Swedish employees to work in the private or public sector. While the existing sector choice literature focusses on (spot) wage differentials, this paper studies additionally how the expected payoffs from internal promotion tournaments affect sector choice. Jobs promising higher wage ‘prizes' and with higher a priori likelihoods of winning those ...

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  • November 21, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects using Hierarchical Bayes Models

    Speaker: joint work with Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    AbstractThis paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany and combine rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county-level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our findings reveal strong ...

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  • November 19, 2012

    Seminar

    The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall

    Speaker: Daniel Sturm, LSE
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 17:15-18:45

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  • November 14, 2012

    Seminar

    Examining the Structure of Spatial Health Effects using Hierarchical Bayes Models
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Peter Eibich (HU Berlin)
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21b
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper makes use of Hierarchical Bayes Models to model and estimate spatial health effects. We focus on Germany and combine rich individual-level household panel data with administrative county-level information to estimate spatial county-level health dependencies. As dependent variable, we use the generic, continuous, and quasi-objective SF12 health measure. Our findings reveal ...

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  • November 7, 2012

    Seminar

    High Wage Workers and High Wage Peers
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Michele Battisti (Ifo Institute Munich)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: This paper investigates the effects of coworker characteristics on wages, measured by the average person effect of coworkers in a wage regression. The effect of interest is identified from within-firm changes in workforce composition, controlling for person effects, firm effects, and sector-specific time trends. My estimates are based on a linked employer employee dataset for the ...

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  • November 7, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Abstract:This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory income shocks, as well as the presence of excess sensitivity to anticipated income changes. A ...

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  • October 31, 2012

    Seminar

    Emigration and Political Change
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Toman Omar Mahmoud (IfW Kiel)
    Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
    Raum B002/3
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We argue that labor emigration creates political spillovers and that these spillovers vary with the political regime of migrants' destination countries. Using community and individual-level data from a former Soviet republic, we analyze the relationship between emigration and electoral preferences of those who stay behind. For identification, we exploit the fact the emigration is ...

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  • October 24, 2012

    Seminar

    New Software, more Employment? Estimating the Causal Effects of a new Placement Software in German Employment Agencies
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Christoph Ehlert (RWI)
    Location: Humboldt Universität Berlin
    Raum 21b
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: We evaluate a major software change in the placement software of the German Federal Employment Agency in 2006. This change was remarkable as it aimed at improving key factors of the placement process increasing the accuracy and number of job placements. As a result of this effort, we would expect more transitions into employment leading to shorter unemployment durations and thus ...

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  • October 24, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Economics of Information: How Job Information Centers affect Educational Choices and Labour Market Outcomes

    Speaker: Nils Saniter
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

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  • October 24, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Economics of Information: How Job Information Centers affect Educational Choices and Labor Market Outcomes

    Speaker: joint work with Thomas Siedler (University of Hamburg), Nils Saniter
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    AbstractThis paper exploits the effects of job information centers in West Germany on pupils' educational and occupational choices, as well as on their labor market outcomes in later life. This paper contributes to the very sparse literature on the impacts of the public provision of labor market related information. We exploit the fact that West Germany job information centers were introduced at ...

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  • October 17, 2012

    Seminar

    The Short-Term Effects of the Kalamazoo Promise Scholarship on Student Outcomes
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Marta Lachowska (W.E. Upjohn Institute, Stockholm University)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: In order to study whether college scholarships can be an effective tool in raising students' performance in secondary school, we use one aspect of the Kalamazoo Promise that resembles a quasi-experiment. The surprise announcement of the scholarship created a large change in expected college tuition costs that varied across different groups of students based on past enrollment decisions. ...

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  • July 18, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Regina T. Riphahn (LMU Munich), Daniel D. Schnitzlein
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    This article studies long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance ...

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