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  • October 2, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Maternity Leave in the Context of Couples

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

    The proposed research focuses on maternity leave duration and re-entry into full- and part-time employment for mothers in Germany. Numerous authors have investigated this subject in order to find out how women's characteristics, combined with family policies and the children's characteristics, influence the re-entries. However, these studies have been limited by their one-sided concentration on ...

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  • September 20, 2013

    Event

    30 Years of German Socio-Economic Panel(SOEP): Colloquium on Happiness Research
    Anniversary Colloquium on Happiness Research

    Speaker: Conchita D'Ambrosio (University of Luxembourg/Luxembourg), Paul Frijters (University of Queensland/Australia), Bruce Headey (University of Melbourne/Australia), Rich Lucas (Michigan State University/USA), Andrew Oswald (University of Warwick/UK), Nilam Ram (Pennstate University/USA), and Rainer Winkelmann (University of Zurich/Switzerland).
    Location: Hertie School of Governance
    Raum: Forum A
    Friedrichstr. 180
    10117 Berlin

    Report about the colloquium The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) is currently collecting its 30th wave of data. We would like to celebrate this milestone with a colloquium on "Happiness Research", which has become one of the central fields of research with the SOEP data over the last ten years. An increasing number of SOEP users are focusing on themes of satisfaction and ...

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  • September 18, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    The effects of flexible working hours on German couples' wages

    Speaker: Laura Langner (Rienecker) (University of Oxford)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    Working flexible hours is believed to increase an employee's productivity, which is claimed to result in higher wages. This enhancement of productivity is attributed to a reduction in work-life stress as well as to the employee's ability to work non-core hours. Despite these claims, there is no sufficient quantitative evidence as to whether this effect of flexible hours on wages exists. If ...

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  • September 17 - 18, 2013

    SOEPcampus

    SOEPcampus@Universität Bamberg 2013
    International SOEP User Workshop

    Location: Universität Bamberg

    The SOEP in cooperation with Johannes Giesecke (University of Bamberg) and the Bamberg Graduate School of Social Sciences (BAGSS) will be organizing an international workshop (in English). The workshop offers participants the opportunity to gain a broad, well-grounded understanding of how to work with the SOEP data. In addition to providing an overview of the structure and possibilities for ...

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  • July 17, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Labor supply estimation with endogenous rationing. An application to the federal minimum wage in Germany

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

    This paper extends a standard static structural labor supply framework by taking labor demand constraints into account. Contrary to previous papers the rationing risk is not only determined by exogenous demand side factors, but also depends on the individual's productivity. The resulting labor supply elasticities from the extended framework differ from the unconstrained model. This approach is ...

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  • July 10, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    What is the effort for? Employment histories and incomes in later life in Europe

    Speaker: Katja Möhring (GK SOCLIFE, University of Cologne)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    The income situation of the elderly population in modern welfare states is the result of an interplay of individual developments over the life course and the national institutional and policy framework. While achievements on the labor market generally are the basis for the economic status in retirement, their actual effect, however, may vary according to the specific national conditions related to ...

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  • June 25, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Discoveries from eye-tracking: new ways to improve reporting for sensitive questions

    Speaker: Olena Kaminska (Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)/University of Essex) joint with Tom Foulsham (Department of Psychology/University of Essex)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:00-14:00

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  • June 24 - 26, 2013

    Workshop

    SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim 2013

    Location: Universität Mannheim

    This year's SOEPcampus@Universität Mannheim Workshop "Längsschnittdatenanalyse mit dem Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP)" will take place from June 24-26 (workshop held in German).

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  • June 19, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Natural Disaster, Policy Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

    Speaker: Asst. Prof. Dr. Nicolas R. Ziebarth, Cornell University, Christian Krekel, Jan Goebel
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental distress in another industrialized country, 5500 miles away. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 25% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition to renewables. ...

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  • June 17, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Special: Maintained Individual Data Distributed Likelihood Estimation

    Speaker: Steven Boker (University of Virginia)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Maintained Individual Data Distributed Likelihood Estimation (MIDDLE) is a new paradigm for the design and analysis of research in the behavioral, social, and health sciences. The MIDDLE approach is based on the seemingly-impossible idea that data can be privately maintained by participants and never revealed to researchers, while still enabling statistical models to be fit and scientific ...

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  • June 12, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    'Are We There Yet?' The Long Journey to a Mature Personality

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

    There is a long tradition assuming that personality is set like plaster. In recent years, a controversy arose about the appropriateness of the assumption that personality does not change after the age of 30 and is mainly influenced by genes. In this talk, I will focus on the questions of (a) when, (b) how, and (c) why personality changes in adulthood. Using data of the Big Five personality traits ...

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  • June 5, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Education and time investment in children: Is Germany different?

    Speaker: Verena Lauber, Universität Konstanz
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Parental investment in terms of money and time is considered to be crucial for a child's development. Research on childcare, which is mainly based on US data, agrees that education has a positive impact on maternal caring time, despite the fact that high earning prospects increase the incentives for labor market participation. Given differences in the family support and other aspect of family ...

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  • May 29, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Now, please tell us the name and address of your employer...

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

    This presentation investigates the response patterns of survey respondents who are asked for the name and address of their employer. Results are of interest for survey methodologists as information on employers is a sensitive piece of information which is difficult to ask for and which might endanger participation to surveys, especially for panel studies like the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). ...

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  • May 22, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Estimating labour supply elasticity from bunching: Some issues

    Speaker: Luke Haywood
    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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  • May 2, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    The Role of Language Skills in the German Labor Market

    Speaker: Mathias Sinning (Australian National University)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    (joint with Ingo Isphording and Sebastian Otten)This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to study the effect of language skills on labor market outcomes. To address problems related to endogeneity and measurement error, we construct an instrumental variable based on differences in language acquisition profiles of immigrants across the distribution of linguistic distance ...

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  • April 25, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Special: Poverty and Well-Being: A Longitudinal Perspective

    Speaker: Conchita D'Ambrosio (University of Milan - Bicocca, Italy) Andrew Clark (Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques (PSE), France)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    We analyze the multi-faceted effects of poverty on the subjective well-being of individuals. Using panel data on more than 42,500 individuals living in Germany from 1993 to 2010 we show that self-reported satisfaction with life decreases as a result of both contemporaneous and past episodes of poverty. The intensity of contemporaneous poverty also plays an additional negative role. In addition, ...

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  • April 24, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Reducing binge drinking? The effect of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales on alcohol-related hospital stays

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

    Excessive alcohol consumption among the youth is a major public health concern both in Germany and Europe. In March 2010 the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg banned the sale of alcoholic beverages between 10pm and 5am in off-premise outlets (e.g. petrol stations, supermarkets). We use monthly administrative data from a 70% random sample of all hospital admissions for the years 2007-2 ...

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  • April 22, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    Special: Endophilia or Exophobia: Beyond Discrimination

    Speaker: Dan Hamermesh, University of Texas at Austin and Royal Holloway University London (joint with Jan Feld and Nicolás Salamanca, ROA University of Maastricht)
    Location: Gustav-Schmoller-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 3.3.002A
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:00 - 11:00

    The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relativistic: One group suffers relative to another. But does a difference arise because agents discriminate against others-are exophobic-or because they favor their own kind-are endophiles? We conduct a field experiment in which graders at one university are randomly assigned students' exams that did or did not contain the students' ...

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  • April 17, 2013

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Do mothers adjust their labor supply in response to child-raising benefits in the pension system?

    Speaker: Andreas Thiemann
    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 10, 2013

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    The Association between Educational Fields and Parenthood: The Question of 'How'

    Speaker: Anja Oppermann (Universität Köln)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Research on education and fertility has been enriched by studies that take the educational field into account next to the educational level. But what causes the association between educational fields and fertility? This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining how characteristics of educational fields are related to the transition to parenthood and the timing of the first birth ...

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