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Report
The new wave of SOEP-Core data (v34, 1984-2017) has been released! With this wave, we have completely revised our data provision process. To read more about the improvements awaiting you, click here.
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09.03.2019
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Statement
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher on the European Central Bank's latest announcements:
07.03.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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Research Project
Greek and German micro, small and medium sized businesses (MSMEs) are the backbone of both the Greek and the German economy, significantly contributing to the economic performance of the two countries. In order to be able to remain competitive in a globalized world, these MSMEs will have to increase their absorption capacity, accumulate new knowledge, and reinforce their innovation effort....
Completed Project| Entrepreneurship
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Study Objectives: This study examines the change in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, and postpartum up to six years after birth and examines potential protective and risk factors for sleep during that time.Methods: Participants of a large representative panel study from Germany reported sleep satisfaction and sleep duration...
05.12.2018| David Richter
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We focus on early childhood education and care (ECEC) as one important channel of social integration for refugee families that recently arrived in Germany (between 2013 and 2016). First, we examine the attendance of ECEC of refugee children and investigate how patterns vary depending on individual and family characteristics, and institutional determinants of the location of residence. Then, we...
12.12.2018| Guido Neidhöfer (ZEW)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This analysis has investigated the determinants of screening uptake for the six different screening examinations (breast and cervical cancer screening examination, blood pressure check, cholesterol level test, eyesight test and dental screening). Same type of screening examination and also possible spillover effects from one type of screening examination to another other type of screening...
16.01.2019| Alexander Labeit
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
At the end of World War II, 40% of the pre-arranged Soviet occupation zone in Germany was under the control of the Allied Expeditionary Force. This occupation was very short-lived and the Red Army gained full control of the Soviet zone less than two months after the German surrender. However, this paper shows that the brief Allied occupation systematically increased opposition to the budding...
23.01.2019| Jonas Jessen
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Abstract:I present evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings in Poland. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns to their cognitive skills....
30.01.2019| Marta Palcznska (Institute for Structural Research)
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
The recent debate on the causes and consequences of income inequality shows striking similarity to the debate in many parts of Europe before 1914. Today and back then the focus was on the role of capital share and market concentration as a cause for rising inequality. In this study we analyze the drivers and consequences of...
06.02.2019| Charlotte Bartels
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Children's development is fostered by both high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings and high quality home learning environments. As we know little about the interrelations between these two environments, we examine whether the child's attendance in a high quality ECEC arrangement relates to the quality of her home learning environment. Using rich NICHD Study of Early Child Care ...
In:
Education Economics
27 (2019), 3, S. 265-286
| Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus, C. Katharina Spieß