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Kick-off for the 2024 PhD Cohort at DIW Berlin

We are excited to welcome the new 2024 cohort of PhD students, with some joining through the Berlin School of Economics (BSoE) and others directly through our program. All of them will conduct their research at DIW Berlin, marking the start of their academic journey with us. We wish them all the best as they embark on the path toward earning their doctorates and look forward to supporting their research ...

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to collecting non-survey data (such as biomarkers). Researchers who are interested in submitting a proposal for ...

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

The SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS) is designed to enable innovative data collection for the research community. It is particularly well suited to establishing new and target-group-specific measurement instruments in long-term surveys, to conducting short- and long-term experiments, and to collecting non-survey data (such as biomarkers). Researchers who are interested in submitting a proposal for ...

Joint Economic Forecast Autumn 2024: German Economy in Transition - Weak Momentum, Low Potential Growth

The Joint Economic Forecast Project Group forecasts a 0.1% decline in Germany's gross domestic product in 2024. Looking further ahead, the institutes expect a weak recovery with growth of 0.8% (2025) and 1.3% (2026). Compared to the spring forecast, this represents a downward revision of 0.2 (2024) and 0.6 (2025) percentage points. “In addition to the economic downturn, the German economy is also being ...

Postdoc (F/M/X) in the Climate Policy department

SOEP at the DGPs Congress (Vienna, September 16-19, 2024)

The 53rd Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs) and the 15th Conference of the Austrian Psychological Society (ÖGP) will be held jointly from September 16 to 19, 2024 at the University of Vienna, Austria, under the theme “Menschen, Mitwelt, Medien” - several SOEP employees will also be on site to present their research with SOEP data: Emilija Meier-Faust will give a presentation on ...

Fabian Seyrich has successfully defended his dissertation

We congratulate Fabian Seyrich on successfully defending his dissertation on 9 July 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Five Essays in Macroeconomics’ and he was supervised by Prof Dr Alexander Kriwoluzky and Prof Dr Christian Bayer. Fabian will remain with DIW and the Macroeconomics Department for part of the time. From 15 August 2024, he will also take up a new position as Assistant Professor at the ...

Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

In October 2024, the online workshop series "SOEPcampus: Learn to Use the SOEP Over Lunch" returns. This workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) study on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To ...

In memoriam Hans-Jürgen Krupp

*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024 The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...

In memoriam Hans Jürgen-Krupp

*April 15, 1933 – †July 29, 2024 The founder of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 91. Following his studies in industrial engineering, Hans-Jürgen Krupp was appointed Professor of Economic and Social Policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in 1969 and headed the university from 1975 to 1979. From 1972, he headed the ...

Andreas Leibing has successfully defended his dissertation

Andreas Leibing, who works at the Public Economics Department, has successfully The dissertation with the title "Education, Expectations, and the Economy: Four Essays in Education and Labor Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Katharina Spieß and Prof. Dr. Jan Marcus. We congratulate Andreas on his success and wish him all the best for his future career.

News from SOEP - Concise in the current SOEPnewsletter (July 2024)

The SOEPnewsletter July 2024 in it's html version is now availabe in English. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list. Enjoy reading.

News from SOEP - Concise in the current SOEPnewsletter (July 2024)

The SOEPnewsletter July 2024 in it's html version is now availabe in English. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list. Enjoy reading.

Data Release: The first Scientific Use File of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is now available

The IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" examines diverse aspects of Ukrainian refugees’ lives—the circumstances surrounding their departure from Ukraine, comprehensive socio-demographic characteristics, and information on housing, school, vocational and university degrees, employment, German language skills, life satisfaction and worries, family constellations before and ...

SOEP publishes Annual Report 2023 - Scope and successes of the longest-running household survey - High-caliber research projects launched

What is the state of poverty and social cohesion in Germany? What about the integration of Ukrainian refugees? How has people's mental health developed over the last 20 years? In 2023, researchers from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) once again used its long-term panel data to conduct research on a wide range of topics relating to social change in Germany. In the 2023 annual report, SOEP looks back ...

100 participants at 15th SOEP User Conference

Immediately following its 40th anniversary ceremony at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, SOEP held a two-day user conference entitled “The individual and collective responses to a changing world.” With 15 sessions and 64 presentations, the conference impressively demonstrated the wide range of topics covered by research on SOEP data. One of the keynote speakers at the conference, ...

Data Release: The first Scientific Use File of the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is now available

The IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Survey "Refugees from Ukraine in Germany" examines diverse aspects of Ukrainian refugees’ lives—the circumstances surrounding their departure from Ukraine, comprehensive socio-demographic characteristics, and information on housing, school, vocational and university degrees, employment, German language skills, life satisfaction and worries, family constellations before and ...

New PhD exchange programme

DIW Graduate Center and the Berlin School of Economics have approved an exchange programme with the PhD programme of the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE). This includes participation in PhD courses for which you will receive accreditation (please note that core courses are not interchangeable) as well as research stays at the AMSE faculty.  If you are interested in joining AMSE for a few months, ...

David Kasprowski has successfully defended his dissertation

On April 10, David Kasprowski successfully completed his dissertation entitled "'Queering' Social Class. On the connection between sexual orientation, gender identity and social class" at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. David submitted and defended the dissertation as part of the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS). The committee consisted of Ellen Heidinger (SOEP and BGSS), Prof. Dr. ...

SOEP alumn Jule Adriaans awarded Peter A. Berger Prize by the German Sociological Association

Dr. Jule Adriaans was awarded the Peter A. Berger Prize 2024 for her dissertation on “Distributive Justice: Definition, Determinants, and Consequences of the Justice of Earnings.” After Adriaans, a SOEP doctoral candidate (2018-2022), completed her PhD at the University of Bielefeld, she accepted a postdoc position at its Faculty of Sociology. Her work focuses mainly on income inequality and justice, ...