The SOEP Survey Council welcomes Katrin Rehdanz (Kiel University) as a new member. In addition, Caezilia Loibl (The Ohio State University), Oliver Lipps (FORS), and Tobias Schmidt (Deutsche Bundesbank) have been reappointed for another term. After serving two terms, Philippe Van Kerm (University of Luxembourg) has stepped down from the Council.
Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
Updated versions of the SOEP-RV VSKT2022 and SOEP-RV RTBN2023 datasets have been available since April 2026. The new releases expand the existing data with additional information for current research projects. SOEP-RV links SOEP survey data with anonymized pension insurance records, providing unique opportunities to study life-course dynamics, social inequality, and the effects of policy reforms. Further ...
Since April 2026, revised versions of the SOEP-RV VSKT2022 and SOEP-RV RTBN2023 datasets are available. These updated releases expand and refresh the existing datasets by adding new information that supports current research projects. SOEP-RV is a joint project of the Research Data Centre of the German Pension Insurance (FDZ-RV) and the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). The project ...
International climate finance (ICF) is a critical mechanism for reducing deforestation and supporting global climate cooperation, yet its effectiveness is often questioned on account of scale and implementation challenges. This paper addresses the question whether ICF, implemented through Official Development Assistance (ODA), is catalysing policy adoption in the land use, land use change, and forestry ...
Several recent studies consider a set of proxies to identify different monetary policy shocks for different regions in the world. We show that the way the proxies are used to identify the monetary policy shocks may lead to correlated shocks and dubious structural analysis and we demonstrate how to overcome the problem of correlated shocks. We illustrate that, if correlated shocks are used in applied ...
Nach einem mehrjährigen Abschwung hat im Verlauf des vergangenen Jahres eine Erholung in Deutschland eingesetzt. Während die exportorientierte Industrie angesichts weiter abnehmender Wettbewerbsfähigkeit, hoher geopolitischer Unsicherheit und handelspolitischer Belastungen kaum Tritt fasste, wurde die Erholung maßgeblich von der Binnenwirtschaft getragen. Der Energiepreisschock, der durch den Iran-Krieg ...
