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In December 2009 Elisabeth Birkner joined the SOEP Survey Group as Junior Survey Manager. She completed a degree in Sociology at University of Leipzig. After graduation she worked as a Scientific Assistant at the Chair for Sociology and Methodology at the University of Leipzig and served for four years as a Research Fellow in the project “Labour Market Integration: Ethnic Germans and Jewish Immigrants ...
01.12.2009
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The most prestigious German research prize, the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of DFG (German Research Foundation) for 2009 was recently conferred on SOEP User Armin Falk (University of Bonn) for his research, “which has set standards in the behavioral economic research and in the economic sciences as a whole.” Among the eleven Leibniz prizes awarded in 2009, only two go to researchers ...
01.11.2009
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30.10.2009
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Frauke Peter (SOEP) will receive funding for three years for her Ph. D. research project on the subject “Change in family resources and their effect on cognitive and non-cognitive skills in early childhood and adolescence: an analysis on the basis of panel data” within the Framework Program for the Promotion of Educational Research of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.BMBF ...
29.09.2009
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Dr. Silke Anger (SOEP) holds the Junior Professorship for Labor Economics in the Faculty of Economics at Humboldt- Universität zu Berlin in winter term 2009/2010.
29.09.2009
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Dr. Martin Kroh (SOEP) holds the Professorship for Empirical Social Research and the Theory of Science at the University of Bamberg (standing in for Gerhard Schulze) in winter term 2009/2010.
29.09.2009
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In 2009, the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) in Mannheim presented the Heinz König Young Scholar Award for outstanding research work by young scholars to SOEP user Christina Felfe of the University of St. Gallen. She shares this year’s award with Alexander M. Danzer of the University of London. Felfe’s work deals with the question of what working conditions enable mothers ...
20.09.2009
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Dr. Christian Schmitt (SOEP) has spent July to September 2009 as a visiting fellow at the Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut/USA.
29.08.2009
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Last week, Alan S. Zuckerman, Professor of Political Science at Brown University (USA) and Research Professor at DIW Berlin passed away. Zuckerman, who received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and taught and conducted research at the Universities of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv, Florence, Pisa, New York, and Stanford, died at the age of just 64. He was associated with DIW Berlin and in particular with the ...
28.08.2009
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20.08.2009
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Dr. Olaf Groh-Samberg (SOEP) has been appointed to the Junior Professorship in Sociology with a focus in education, the labor market, and social inequality in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Bremen starting in August 2009. The Junior Professorship is part of the Bremen International Graduate School of Social Sciences (BIGSSS). Olaf will maintain his connection to SOEP as a DIW ...
20.08.2009
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The General Assembly of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) has elected Joachim R. Frick Member of the LIS-Executive Council for the period 2009-2013.The Luxembourg Income Study is a cross-national data archive located in Luxembourg.The LIS archive contains two primary databases:The Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) Database combines datasets from over 30 countries and contains income data supplemented by ...
22.07.2009
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Nicolaus Ziebarth, Ph.D. student at the department German Socio-Economic Panel Study, became an external member of the Health, Econometrics and Data Group (HEDG) of the Health Economics Resource Centre at the University of York (UK).HEDG
17.07.2009
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C. Katharina Spiess will be spending July and August 2009 at the Center for Research on Families at the University of Washington, Seattle/USA in the framework of a DFG guest research grant. She will be studying questions of early childhood care and indicators of child development.
10.07.2009
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28.05.2009
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28.05.2009
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22.04.2009
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01.04.2009
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25.03.2009
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25.03.2009