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  • Personnel news

    Martin Kittel has successfully defended his dissertation

    Martin Kittel, Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Five Essays in Energy System Analysis - Exploring the Dunkelflaute and Unintended Storage Cycling” on January 27, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Tom Brown, Claudia Kemfert, and Wolf-Peter Schill. Congratulations!

    22.04.2025
  • Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]

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

    In June 2025 our online over lunch seminar series returns with new workshop management. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) 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 join, ...

    15.04.2025| Janina Britzke, Cristóbal Moya
  • Report

    The #ManyDaughters Study is Officially Kicking Off!

    We are happy to announce the launch of the #ManyDaughters Study, an international research initiative exploring how having daughters influences behavior, preferences, and attitudes. Researchers from all fields of social sciences are invited to participate in this collaborative project, which will use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) to test four key hypotheses on the impact of daughters ...

    11.04.2025| Levent Neyse
  • Press Release

    Joint Economic Forecast Spring 2025: Geopolitical turn intensifies crisis – structural reforms even more urgent

    The German economy will continue to tread water in 2025. In their spring report, the leading economic research institutes forecast an increase in gross domestic product of just 0.1 per cent for the current year. For 2026, the institutes expect gross domestic product to increase by 1.3 per cent. In the short term, the new US trade policy and economic policy uncertainty are weighing on the German economy. ...

    10.04.2025
  • DIW focus

    Trump’s tariffs: What escalating trade tensions with the US imply for EU exporters and supply chains

    US trade policy has taken a sharp turn away from multilateralism, with sweeping new tariffs posing a serious threat to global supply chains. As the US remains the EU’s largest export market for goods, these measures carry significant repercussions for the bloc. Exports to the US are heavily reliant on a small number of companies and high-value business relationships—making the EU particularly...

    02.04.2025| Sonali Chowdhry
  • Publication

    Ukrainian refugees in Germany: participation is growing, but many hurdles remain

    How are the many Ukrainians who have come to Germany since the start of the Russian war of aggression on February 24, 2022, faring? An answer comes from the “Longitudinal Study on Refugees from Ukraine in Germany (SUARE),” which has published a research report on the topic on 3 March, 2025. The report, based on data collected between July 2023 and January 2024, is being published by the Institute for ...

    03.03.2025| Sabine Zinn
  • Statement

    The next federal government needs courage and honesty

    Following yesterday's Bundestag elections, DIW President Marcel Fratzscher commented on the results and the challenges facing the new German government:

    24.02.2025| Marcel Fratzscher
  • Personnel news

    Virginia Sondergeld has successfully defended her dissertation

    Virginia Sondergeld, former Research Associate in the Public Economics department and the Research Group Gender Economics, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Women in management: Essays in Gender and Labor Economics” on January 31, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Katharina Wrohlich. Congratulations!

    03.02.2025
  • Publication

    The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available!

    The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals but also at all other adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education ...

    10.12.2024| Julian B. Axenfeld
  • Publication

    The Wave 1 Scientific Use File of the German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) is now available!

    The SCP is a longitudinal study that captures multiple aspects of social cohesion in Germany. It is based on a representative population sample drawn from the German population registers and was carried out for the first time in 2021. The annual survey is directed not only at the selected individuals but also at all other adult household members. The SCP is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education ...

    10.12.2024| Julian B. Axenfeld
  • Nachrichten [Graduate Center]

    Any Questions concerning our PhD Program?

    Join our Open Info Hour! Are you considering applying to the DIW Graduate Center's structured PhD program? This is your chance to learn more about our program, ask questions, and connect directly with our team. Discover how you can benefit from excellent academic training, a vibrant research environment, and a full-time scholarship. We look forward to meeting you! Tuesday, December 17, 9:30-10:30 ...

    02.12.2024
  • Publication

    “Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany?

    “Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB). The ...

    06.11.2024| Verena Neumann
  • Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]

    SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

    All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v39: New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data. Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...

    22.10.2024| SOEP Community Management
  • Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]

    SOEP-Core Data 1984-2022 (v39) available now

    All registered data users can order the latest data immediately via our online order form.In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder Important news for v39: New samples: With the refreshment sample R and the migration sample M8b, two new samples were added to the SOEP data. Currently, there is only a preliminary weighting, as the marginal distributions for ...

    22.10.2024| SOEP Community Management
  • Report

    Applications are now open for the PhD Program intake of 2025

    The application portal for the doctoral program of the DIW Graduate Center is now open! Graduates can apply until January 15, 2025 for the 2025 cohort (start: October 2025). The program offers structured doctoral training with a full scholarship in the first year and employment in a department in subsequent years. Applicants should have a Master's degree in economics or related subjects. More information ...

    15.10.2024| Laura Starck
  • Personnel news

    Johannes Seebauer has successfully defended his dissertation

    We congratulate Johannes Seebauer on successfully defending his dissertation on November 19, 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Shocks and the Labor Market: Five Empirical Essays in Economics’ and he was supervised by Carsten Schröder and Alexander Kritikos. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career!

    11.10.2024
  • Nachrichten [Graduate Center]

    Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation

    We congratulate Jonas Hannane on successfully defending his dissertation on 08 October 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization’ and he was supervised by Tomaso Duso and Hannes Ullrich. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.

    11.10.2024
  • Nachrichten [Graduate Center]

    Mats Kröger has successfully defended his dissertation

    We congratulate Mats Kröger on successfully defending his dissertation on 26 September 2024.The title of the thesis was ‘Does a fair transition reduce efficiency? Essays on the distributional effects of energy and climate policy’ and he was supervised by Karsten Neuhoff and Chloé Le-Coq. We wish him much success and all the best for his future career.

    11.10.2024
  • Personnel news

    Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation

    Jonas Hannane has successfully defended his dissertation on October 8, 2024 at the Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Three Essays on the Economics of Digitization" was supervised by Professor Dr. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and Technische Universität Berlin) and Professor Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen). Jonas was a PhD student at the Firms and ...

    09.10.2024
  • Report

    Graduation Ceremony 2024

    On December 5, the Institute and DIW GC celebrated the graduation of 15 of our graduates with a festive ceremony. After an opening speech by Marcel Fratzscher and an inspiring speech by Prof. Dr. Nicolas Ziebarth, Helmut Lütkepohl was also bid farewell to his well-deserved retirement. The Executive Board and Kerstin Bernoth thanked him warmly for his important work in doctoral training and at the GC. ...

    30.09.2024
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