Due to recent conflicts and humanitarian issues, millions of people have sought asylum in countries in Europe. The influx of asylum seekers has sparked debates about the impacts of such migratory flows on resident populations. We study how the recent migration of these forcibly displaced people into Europe affects the mental health of the receiving country residents in Switzerland and Germany. We exploit ...
Public debt has reached historically high levels in many advanced economies and continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. This development has brought questions of fiscal sustainability, macroeconomic stability, and the appropriate conduct of monetary and fiscal policy to the forefront of policy debates worldwide. This five-lecture course investigates the mechanisms and conditions under which...
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long-running panel...
On October 6 and 7, 2026, we are organizing a two-day workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the composition, data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers at all qualification levels who want to work with SOEP data in...
The Society of Friends of DIW Berlin (VdF) has provided support to DIW Berlin since 1951. Its objectives include developing partnerships with national and international enterprises and establishing cooperation between researchers and entrepreneurs. Members of the Society of Friends represent companies from all industry and service sector branches as well as the main business associations. Society members ...
