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News from SOEP - Concise in the current SOEPnewsletter (November 2025)

The SOEPnewsletter November 2025 is now availabe in English and German. 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 (November 2025)

The SOEPnewsletter November 2025 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list. Enjoy reading.

SOEP-IS: Call for Submissions

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 ...

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 ...

Start of the new research project Wärme-ZIEL

On November 1, 2025, the project “Implementing the local heating transition: Future initiatives for the energy transition in Lüneburg (Wärme-ZIEL)” was launched at DIW Berlin. Over the next two years, the project will explore practical strategies to support the transition toward a climate-neutral heat supply in the Lüneburg region. Its goal is to accelerate the implementation of municipal heat plans, ...

Open Info Hour 2025

Are you interested in our PhD program? Join our Open Info Hour to connect with us directly. Get insights into the program, ask your questions, and learn everything you want to know. Monday, December 15, 10 a.m.-11 a.m. Tuesday, December 16, 14 p.m.-15 p.m.  We look forward to meeting you!

Oktober News

On October 10, 2023, the research project MINDSET_Clean_H2 organised a workshop about the hydrogen economy in Germany and France at TU Munich. Researchers as well as stakeholders from industry participated. Franziska Holz and Lukas Barner represented the project team from DIW Berlin and presented recent research results on the availability of water for electrolysis in Germany. The research project ...

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

In Nov/Dec 2025 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. 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 ...

SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin: In-person workshop on November 17-18, 2025

On November 17 and 18, 2025 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers of all qualification levels who want to work ...

Robin Sogalla has successfully defended his dissertation

On October 1, 2025, Robin Sogalla successfully completed his dissertation entitled „International Trade and Climate Policy: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity“ with summa cum laude at the Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation was submitted and successfully defended by Robin as part of the doctoral programme in economics. The committee consisted of Prof. Tomaso Duso (DIW Berlin and TU Berlin), ...

Welcome to Andreea-Maria Stoica

We welcome Andreea to our team. She has been a doctoral student at the DIW Graduate Center since 2024 and now also works as a research associate in our Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department. She holds a B.Sc. in Economics and a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Heidelberg, as well as an M.Sc. in Behavioural Science from LSE. Her research interests are in applied microeconomics, focusing on ...

Izabela Wnuk-Soares joins the Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department as a postdoctoral researcher

We are delighted to welcome Izabela Wnuk-Soares to our Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department as a postdoctoral researcher. She earned her PhD in Economics from Freie Universität Berlin and her MSc from the London School of Economics. Her research lies in labor and applied microeconomics. She studies how immigration shapes labor market and health outcomes for both native and immigrant workers, with ...

16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime

On September 26-27, 2025, the 16th Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime took place at the DIW Berlin, co-hosted by Anna Bindler (DIW) and Christian Traxler (Hertie School). Highlights of this year’s workshop included keynote lectures by Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard (VU Amsterdam) on violence and bystander behavior and by Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) on migration and organized crime. ...

Register now for the “2nd Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies”

SOEP/DIW Berlin (together with ZBW, WZB, and RWI) is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the "2nd Leibniz Open Science Day 2025: Better Science for Better Policies", taking place on 27 October 2025 at the Leibniz-Association, Berlin.  This year’s keynote will be delivered by Prof. Johanna Rickne (Stockholm University). The program is now available and highlights the growing role of ...

Joint Economic Forecast Autumn 2025: Fiscal stimulus masks structural weakness

The German economy is emerging from the trough and is likely to regain some momentum over the next two years. Following stagnation in the first half of the year, the Joint Economic Forecast project group predicts gross domestic product growth of 0.2 percent for the current year in its fall report. In the next two years, an expansionary fiscal policy is likely to accelerate economic growth noticeably ...

Barbara Stacherl has successfully defended her dissertation

On September 9, Barbara Stacherl successfully completed her dissertation entitled “Spatial Healthcare Access: Measurement, Health-Related Outcomes, and Healthcare Utilization” with summa cum laude at Bielefeld University. Barbara submitted and defended her dissertation as part of the Public Health doctoral program. The committee consisted of Prof. Odile Sauzet (primary supervisor, Bielefeld University), ...

Unsolicited application for a mandatory internship in a research department of DIW Berlin

German economy poised for upturn thanks to fiscal package; uncertainties in the global economy

The German economy is slowly emerging from its trough. After a bumpy start to the year, which was marked by tariff-related special effects, growth in 2025 remains subdued at 0.2 percent. However, the economy is gradually picking up speed from the current third quarter onwards. Over the next two years, this will translate into noticeable economic growth of 1.7 and 1.8 percent annually, respectively. ...

Anna Hasselqvist is a new postdoctoral researcher in the Crime, Labor, and Inequality Department

Welcome to Anna Hasselqvist as a postdoctoral researcher in the Crime, Labor and Inequality Department. Before this she obtained her PhD in Economics from the ifo Institute and Ludwig-Maximilian Universität Munich. Her research focuses on how family background and formative childhood experiences shape inequality within families, as well as in the labor market. Her current projects examine sibling spillovers ...

Felix Schmidt has successfully defended his dissertation

Felix Schmidt, Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Modeling variable renewable energy systems. The role of weather uncertainty, heating and long-duration storage” with summa cum laude on July 18, 2025. He was supervised by Christian von Hirschhausen. Congratulations!