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Essays on Large Data Sets and Unbalanced Panels in Empirical Macroeconomics: Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades eines Doktors der Wirtschaftswissenschaft doctor rerum politicarum (Dr. rer. pol.) am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin

Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment

Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I do not find evidence for negative employment ...

Macroeconometric Workshop

We are pleased to announce that on May 27, 2022 DIW Berlin will host the “Macroeconometric Workshop”. The workshop covers presentations of both methodological and applied contributions on the frontier of research in quantitative macroeconomics, with a focus on empirical research. The event is jointly organized by the School of Business & Economics of Freie Universität Berlin...

Wage Risk and Portfolio Choice: The Role of Correlated Returns

From standard portfolio-choice theory it is well-understood that background risk, overwhelmingly due to wage risk, is one of the central determinants of individuals’ portfolio composition: higher background risk reduces risky investments. However, if background risk is negatively correlated with financial market risk, higher background risk implies more risky investment. We quantify the influence of ...

The inefficiency of a monetary union with heterogeneous agents in the face of common shocks

Fiscal multipliers: do individuals make a difference?

SOEPcampus@Home: Online workshop October 14 and 15, 2021

In order to facilitate novel user's access to the rich data-source of the SOEP, we will host another online-workshop in October. The aim of the workshop is to familiarize novel users with the content and structure of the dataset, its potentials for social-scientific research and accompanying documentation matieral. Practical examples of data management will be discussed. The workshop will last two ...

German Social Cohesion Panel (SCP) of the Research Institute for Social Cohesion (RISC)

The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin and the University of Bremen are working together to develop a household panel study on the topic of social cohesion. The survey is being conducted by the infas Institute for Applied Social Science under the name “Zusammenleben in Deutschland,” or “Living Together in Germany.” The University of Bremen is taking part in the project as a participant in...

Carbon Contracts for Differences and effective CO2 pricing along the value chain in industry

 In the first part of the workshop, organized in the framework of the CFM-TRACTION Project, we will discuss design options for CCfDs, preliminary results on the scale of savings that CCfDs could achieve, and a first estimate of the amount of public funding required for CCfDs in Germany. In the second part, we will discuss possible revenues of CO2 pricing with a pass-through of CO2 costs...

Carbon Contracts for Differences and effective CO2 pricing along the value chain in industry

In the first CFM-Traction Workshop, preliminary results on the scale of savings that CCfDs could achieve and a first estimate of the amount of public funding required for CCfDs in Germany were discussed, in addition to design options for CCfDs. Furthermore, estimated distributional effects of CO2 pricing along the value chain were discussed. In this second workshop, follow-up analysis on these...