A face to face interview is something every student will go through at some point in their career. In the academic job market, it is the central process to convince potential employers of your future research prospects. Outside academia the focus is less on research, but performing well in the interview is nonetheless essential to get the job you want. Handling a job interview successfully is not...
Academic inequality between migrants and natives is often attributed to family dynamics that are difficult to observe. Siblings provide a way to study them: I estimate the effect of having a high-achieving sibling on the educational outcomes of children in migrant and native families. Using exogenous variation in sibling achievement from Sweden’s school-entry cutoff in a Regression Discontinuity Design, ...
Global value chains (GVCs) underpin production and trade, with direct implications for both the real economy and the financial system. Yet, they remain poorly understood at the granular level. Project Insight attempted to address this gap by integrating detailed datasets on firm-to-firm activity to develop a proof of concept (POC) dashboard to enhance the monitoring of GVC developments. It is a...
This essay—based on an interview with Guillermina Jasso, Silver Professor of Arts and Science and Professor of Sociology at New York University and recipient of the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Society for Justice Research—offers an in-depth reflection on her influential career in the social sciences. Spanning five decades of scholarship, Jasso’s work has shaped central debates ...
We study how immigration affects prices through changes in labor supply. Using policy-driven increases in immigration to Germany and administrative data covering the universe of nursing homes, we find that one additional foreign-born woman per 100 residents reduces nursing-home care prices by 2.6 percent. The price effects are concentrated in more competitive markets. Examining potential mechanisms, ...
We are pleased to announce that on December 18, 2026, DIW Berlin will host the “Macroeconometric Workshop”. The workshop brings together researchers working on both applied and theoretical macroeconometrics, featuring methodological and empirical contributions at the frontier of quantitative macroeconomics. It is organized with the support of DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, and Humboldt...
