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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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
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.
Gert G. Wagner was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany by Germany’s President Horst Koehler on February 8th, 2008. Wagner is Professor of Economics at the Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Faculty Member of the DIW Berlin Graduate Center and the International Max Planck Research School LIFE. Since 1989, he has been responsible ...