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Publication
New data, new projects, new faces: In 2022, a lot of new things happened at the Socio-Economic Panel.
Last year's annual report provides again a compact and clear insight into all the SOEP's activities on topics such as forced migration, wealth, new samples, pension data, and mental health as well as on the fieldwork carried out by infas.
The report is available online free of charge. We would ...
11.07.2023| Janina Britzke
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study investigates how atypical employment (i.e., part-time, temporary work, mini-jobs) affects workers' ability to accumulate financial assets and exposes them to asset poverty in Germany. Asset poverty occurs when household financial resources (e.g., bank deposits and stock equity) are insufficient to live at the income poverty line for three months. Previously, studies on labour market processes ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
85 (2023), 100803, 11 S.
| Claudia Colombarolli, Philipp M. Lersch
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Positive assortative mating may be a driver of wealth inequalities, but this relationship has not yet been examined. We investigate the association between assortative mating and wealth inequality within and between households drawing on data from the United States Survey of Income and Program Participation and measuring current, individual-level wealth for newly formed couples (N = 3936 couples). ...
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Social Forces
102 (2023), 2, S. 454–474
| Philipp M. Lersch, Reinhard Schunck
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Nachrichten [Abteilung SOEP]
KonsortSWD Network Development Grants are aimed at researchers from the various communities that are part of KonsortSWD as well as infrastructure providers with relevant expertise. The grants further complement the portfolio of KonsortSWD services, and ideas from all KonsortSWD other NFDI communities are of interest. KonsortSWD Network Development Grants are designed to support projects that improve ...
13.12.2022
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DIW Discussion Papers 2027 / 2022
We examine the additivity of stock-market expectations over different time intervals. When asked about a ten-year interval, survey respondents expect a stock-price change that is not equal to, but closer to zero than, the sum of their expectations over two shorter time intervals that cover the same ten years. Such sub-additivity is irrational in that it cannot stem from aggregating short-term expectations. ...
2022| Peter Haan, Chen Sun, Uwe Sunde, Georg Weizsäcker
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Whether additional natural gas infrastructure is needed or would be detrimental to achieving climate protection goals is currently highly controversial. Here we combine five perspectives to argue why expansion of the natural gas infrastructure hinders a renewable energy future and is no bridge technology. We highlight that natural gas is a fossil fuel with a significantly underestimated climate impact ...
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Nature Energy
7 (2022), 7, S. 582–587
| Claudia Kemfert, Fabian Präger, Isabell Braunger, Franziska M. Hoffart, Hanna Brauers
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DIW Discussion Papers 2029 / 2022
Predicting entrepreneurial development based on individual and business-related characteristics is a key objective of entrepreneurship research. In this context, we investigate whether the motives of becoming an entrepreneur influence the subsequent entrepreneurial development. In our analysis, we examine a broad range of business outcomes including survival and income, as well as job creation, expansion ...
2022| Marco Caliendo, Alexander S. Kritikos, Claudia Stier
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Research Project
Energy consumption for household heating is capturing increasing attention. In the short-term, gas – and thus heat–saving has become a core policy objective in the current energy crisis. Only if households save sufficient gas will it be possible to avoid curtailment of industrial energy gas demand. Gas savings will also reduce scarcity on the markets, and thus is an important element to mitigate...
Completed Project| Climate Policy, German Socio-Economic Panel study
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We use machine learning techniques to quantify trade tensions between the United States and China. Our measure matches well-known events in the US-China trade dispute and is exogenous to the developments on global financial markets. Local projections show that rising trade tensions leave US markets largely unaffected, except for firms that are more exposed to China, while negatively impacting stock ...
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Journal of Applied Econometrics
37 (2022), 6, S. 1138-1159
| Massimo Ferrari Minesso, Frederik Kurcz, Maria Sole Pagliari
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Energy system models are used for policy decisions and technology designs. If not carefully used, models give implausible outputs and mislead decision-making. One implausible effect is “unintended storage cycling”, which is observable as simultaneous storage charging and discharging. Methods to remove such misleading effects exist, but are computationally inefficient and sometimes ineffective. Through ...
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iScience
26 (2023), 1, 105729, 19 S.
| Maximilian Parzen, Martin Kittel, Daniel Friedrich, Aristides Kiprakis