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Global Offshore Wealth, 2001-2023

This paper constructs homogeneous time series of global household offshore wealth covering the 2001–2023 period, during which major international efforts were implemented to curb offshore tax evasion. We find that: (i) global offshore wealth remained broadly stable as a fraction of global GDP since 2001, following a sharp increase in the 1980s and 1990s; (ii) the location of offshore wealth changed ...

New DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue event series launched

The Berlin-based "DIW-OECD industrial strategy dialogues" event series was launchend on December 8. It provides a platform for dialogue between key stakeholders from policy, business, society, and academia to discuss cutting-edge research and which industrial strategies can work for Germany, Europe and their global partners to address the major challenges of our time. Successful industrial strategies ...

Binary Response Format or 11-Point Scale? Measuring Justice Evaluations of Earnings in the SOEP

Questions on justice of earnings are regularly fielded in large-scale surveys but insights intothe role of response formats on measures of the justice of earnings are missing. This problem isillustrated by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which, in 2017, changed its question onthe justice of one’s own earnings from a binary response scale to an 11-point scale. Meanwhile, the shareof respondents ...

Associations of Socioeconomic Disparities with Buccal Dna-Methylation Measures of Biological Aging

Background: Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, ...

Best Paper Award for Lavinia Kinne

At the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, which took place from December 7 to 9 in Nicosia, Cyprus, Lavina Kinne and Virginia Sondergeld were awarded the Best Paper Prize. The award-winning project by the two authors is entitled: “Meet my family: women in leadership and gender stereotypes in the media.” We congratulate them on this great success!  In their study, the two ...

The Effects of Trade on Firm-Level CO2 Emissions Intensity: Evidence from German Microdata

This paper studies how firms’ CO2 emission intensity (CEI) responds to trade shocks. I develop a unified framework that decomposes within-firm changes in CEI into three components: shifts in (i) the product portfolio, (ii) factor-neutral physical productivity (TFPQ), and (iii) CO2-abatement technology, defined as factor-augmenting productivity that reduces emissions relative to other inputs. The...

Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics

The 20th Berlin IO Day

The Berlin IO Day is a one-day workshop supported by the Berlin's leading academic institutions, including DIW Berlin, ESMT Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin. The aim is to create an international forum for high quality research in Industrial Organization in the heart of Berlin, one of Europe's most vibrant and intellectually lively...

The Gender Gap in Fair Earnings: The Effect of Male and Female Supervisors

Research has consistently shown that lower earnings for women and higher earnings for men are generally regarded as fair by both women and men. Previous research has focused on structural factors to explain this phenomenon, but has neglected proximate relationships at work. This study examines how the supervisors’ gender relates to employees’ justice attitudes toward the earnings of men and women. ...

Personality in the Classroom: Interactions of Parental SES and Students’ Big Five in Predicting School Performance

While socioeconomic status (SES) and personality have both been identified as relevant predictors of academic achievement, little is known about their possible interplay in predicting school performance. The present study used the latent moderated structural equations (LMS) method to investigate latent interactions between familial SES and parent-rated Big Five in a sample of German high school students ...