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  • June 11, 2014

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Eingabenstatistiken – a data source to evaluate the quality of life in the GDR?

    Speaker: Prof. Ulrich Kohler and Dr. Marian Krawietz (both University of Potsdam)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Since now research rarely used quantitative methods to describe and explain societal trends in the former GDR. In consequence the current state of research concerning established sociological concepts such as quality of life is poor. One of the main reason for this desiderata is the lack of quantitative data. In our presentation we will introduce a hidden data base that probably allows ...

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  • June 10, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Private school “effects” on student achievement in Australian schools

    Speaker: Prof. Chris Ryan, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • June 6, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Private experience and observational learning in pharmaceutical demand

    Speaker: Tanja Saxell, Ph.D., Government Institute for Economic Research (VATT), Helsinki
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • June 5 - 6, 2014

    Workshop

    Neighbourhood Effects - Empirical analyses and datasets on a small regional scale
    How does the neighbourhood influence the decision making of individuals and how do individuals sort themselves into neighbourhoods?

    Speaker: Paul Elhorst (University of Groningen) Maarten van Ham (Delft University of Technology)

    The workshop concludes the project "Neighbourhood effects: Analysis of individual rational behaviour in a social context". The project consortium consists of RWI, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the University of Melbourne.The aim of the project is to geo-reference existing micro-level data sets, e.g. the SOEP or ...

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  • June 4, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to Mass-Releases from Prisons in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

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

    Using a wide range of administrative criminal, prison, and police records from the GDR, the paper estimates the incapacitation effect on crime. The paper analyzes a unique quasi-natural experiment: A collective pardon of essentially all GDR prison population in 1987. An instrumental variable strategy is applied to relate crime and recidivism rates to pardon-induced releases from prison. ...

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  • May 28, 2014

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Divering experiences of early career in Western Germany: The effect of social background and regional labour market context

    Speaker: Wouter Zwysen (ISER, University of Essex/UK)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Family background has long-lasting effects on labour market outcomes. A crucial period is the transition from the educational system to the labour market. It is here that inequality can get reinforced through an unsuccessful transition involving low work attachment and low pay. A bad first experience has been shown to have long-lasting effects, making this an important point for any policy ...

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  • May 23, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Trust, Leniency and Deterrence

    Speaker: Prof. Chloé Le Coq, Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • May 21, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Early retirement disincentives: Effectiveness and implications for distribution and welfare

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

    This paper evaluates the effectiveness of early retirement disincentives that have been introduced in Germany and investigates the distributional and welfare implications. Therefore, we set up a detailed model of the German social security and tax system with special focus on the PAYG-pension system. Building on the fact that the institutional changes were phased in - impacting birth cohorts to a ...

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  • May 16, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Household Formation, Female Labor Supply and Savings

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hans Fehr, University of Würzburg
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • May 14, 2014

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    The Day Reconstruction Method in Face-to-Face-Interviews in the German Socio-Economic Panel

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

    (joint with Maria Metzing, DIW Berlin/SOEP)The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is currently creating a new Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) while at the same time increasing the size of the core SOEP. Starting with the 2012 survey, a CAPI version of the Day Reconstruction Method (adaption of DRM by Kahneman et al. 2004 and a replication of 2009 PSID's supplement on Disability and Use of Time; ...

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  • May 9, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Internet is killing printed news

    Speaker: Prof. Tarjei Havnes, University of Oslo
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • May 7, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Effect of Subsidized Early Child Care on Maternal Labor Supply: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Germany

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

    (joint with Katharina Wrohlich)This paper uses spatial and temporal variation in county child care availability for children under three year induced by the expansion of public child care in West Germany to analyze the impact of subsidized early childcare provision on maternal labor supply. We imply a general difference-in-differences approach to identify this causal link, controlling for time and ...

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  • May 2, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Intergenerational Mobility Curves

    Speaker: Bhash Mazumder, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • April 30, 2014

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Selecting the selected? A silbing-analysis on tertiary education transition in Germany

    Speaker: Tamás Keller (Free University Berlin; TÁRKI Social Research Institute Budapest)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Past studies found considerable impact of parental background on educational decisions, especially in countries with early educational tracking. Our knowledge is however still limited regarding its impact on educational decisions later on in life, like the transition to tertiary education. Do all pupils who reach the highest secondary school track face the same opportunities to go to the ...

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  • April 25, 2014

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Forward-looking Behavior and Stockpiling of Prescription Drugs

    Speaker: Prof. Niels Skipper, Aarhus University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • April 23, 2014

    BeNA - Seminar on Labor Research

    Returns to Foreign Language Skills in a Developing Country: The Case of Turkey

    Speaker: Antonio Di Paolo (Universitat Barcelona)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 18:15 - 19:30

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  • April 23, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Effect of Early Universal Care on Objective Child Health Outcomes

    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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  • April 9, 2014

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Is it really all that bad? The impact of shortening high school tenure on grade repetitions and graduation rates

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

    (joint with Jan Marcus, DIW Berlin)In designing education systems, policy-makers face a trade-off between the provision of higher levels of schooling and earlier labour market entries. The G8-reform, a fundamental education reform in Germany, tackles this trade-off by increasing education efficiency: The time in high school is reduced by one year while the total number of instruction hours is left ...

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  • April 9, 2014

    BeNA - Seminar on Labor Research

    The Effect of Crime Exposure on Crime Sentences

    Speaker: Arnaud Philippe (CREST)
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 18:15 - 19:30

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  • March 20 - 21, 2014

    Event

    10th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium

    Location: Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg
    Delmenhorst/ Germany

    We are pleased to announce the 10th anniversary "International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium".The symposium provides an opportunity for doctoral students and young postdoctoral researchers of all disciplines (e.g. economics, demography, psychology, sociology, public health, geography) to present empirical research in progress - carried out with panel data ...

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