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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Siblings are the ultimate peers, deeply shaping one another’s development. Do these influences vary with a family’s cultural background? I estimate how sibling spillovers differ for girls and boys with older brothers or sisters in migrant and native families, using a regression discontinuity design on high-quality administrative data. Exploiting exogenous variation in older siblings’ achievement...
26.11.2025| Anna Hasselqvist
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DIW Weekly Report 47/48 / 2025
Around 200,000 children were born to refugees in Germany between 2014 and 2022. This Weekly Report investigates how the health and development of children born in Germany to refugees are affected by their parent’s experience of being a refugee. An analysis using representative data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and data from the IAB-BAMFSOEP Survey of Refugees shows that there are no significant ...
2025| Valeriia Heidemann, Sabine Zinn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
6.5 million Ukrainian refugees have been displaced globally since 2022, with one million who registered for temporary protection in Germany under the EU Tempo¬rary Protection Directive. Unlike other refugee groups, they were granted immediate access to social security and health care. However, little is known about the differences in health determinants for individuals arriving under the EU Temporary ...
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PLoS Global Public Health
5 (2025), 11, e0004565, 19 S.
| Louise Biddle, Andrea Marchitto, Sabine Zinn
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11.11.2025
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The price of institutional long-term care is a key determinant of the demand for both formal and informal long-term care. In this paper, we examine how the regional unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions influences these prices. Our analysis draws on administrative data that provide detailed information on all nursing homes and ambulatory care services, as well as all recipients ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
32 (2025), 100600, 15 S.
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
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Personnel news
Jonas Hannane received the “Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars” from Faculty VII at TU Berlin for his article “Who Is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms”, published in the journal Management Science in 2025. Congratulations!
Jonas was a GC/BSE PhD researcher in the Firms and Markets Department. The award-winning paper was part of his dissertation.
02.12.2025
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 1, S. 129–142
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Jule Adriaans
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Divorce marks the legal endpoint of a marital union. While divorce is increasingly seen as a ‘clean break’, the past marital history of the couple may nevertheless shape their present conditions. In particular, there may be a legacy of a highly gendered division of labour during marriage that may affect the ex-spouses’ earning trajectories beyond the date of divorce. Using register data from the German ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
42 (2023), 23, 34 S.
| Daniel Brüggmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This replication revisits an influential contribution on the intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes, which, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), reveals a positive correlation between parents' and children's attitudes. The authors of the original study argue that socialization in the family is important in the transmission process. The replication is motivated ...
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Social Science Research
119 (2024), 102982, 21 S.
| Christoph Spörlein, Cornelia Kristen, Regine Schmidt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While almost all charities rely on a set of donor appreciation strategies, their effectiveness for the success of fundraising campaigns is underresearched. Through two preregistered field studies conducted in collaboration with a leading German opera house (N = 10,000), we explore the significance of expressing gratitude and examine two different approaches to doing so. Our first study investigates ...
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Experimental Economics
28 (2025), 4, S. 900–909
| Maja Adena, Steffen Huck, Levent Neyse