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.
By Ralph Buehler, Assistant Professor in Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia TechJohn Pucher, Professor, Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers UniversityUwe Kunert, Senior Research Associate, Energy, Transportation and Environment at German Institute for Economic Research Prepared for the Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program. April 2009Download on Brooking's website ...
Tilman Brück, Head of the Department of International Economics at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) has been awarded the "IAP Award for Young Scientists 2008". The prize is awarded jointly by the InterAcademy Panel (IAP) and TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world.