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DIW Discussion Papers 1970 / 2021
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive application information and personal ...
2021| Henning Hermes, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter, Simon Wiederhold
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Climate Friendly Materials Platform
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...
04.11.2020| Oliver Lösch (IREES), Frank Sibert (BNP Paribas), Stefan Pauliuk (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), Steffen Jenner (Bundesfinanzministerium), Udo Sieverding (Verbraucherzentrale NRW), Olga Chiappinelli, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein
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Climate Friendly Materials Platform
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...
04.12.2020| André Horstkötter (Thyssenkrupp), Brigitta Huckestein (BASF), Ellen von Zitzewitz (BMWi), Olga Chiappinelli, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn C. Richstein
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DIW Weekly Report 37 / 2021
Recently, the coronavirus pandemic has caused economic developments in major economies to drift apart: While infection rates were declining and production was experiencing strong growth in places such as Europe and the United States in the second quarter of 2021, emerging economies were experiencing strict economic restrictions due to high case numbers. In some of these countries, the economy declined. ...
2021| Guido Baldi, Geraldine Dany-Knedlik, Hella Engerer, Frederik Kurcz
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DIW Weekly Report 37 / 2021
The German economy is taking longer than expected to overcome the pandemic: It is likely to increase by only 2.1 percent in 2021 and capacities remain markedly underutilized. In addition, global supply bottlenecks are affecting German industry, resulting in stalled domestic production despite high demand. Following a profitable summer due to low case numbers and progress in the vaccination campaign, ...
2021| Marius Clemens, Simon Junker, Laura Pagenhardt
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Research Project
Please consider our Call for Papers for the workshop on "Firms, Workers, and Households in Times of Crisis and Digital Transformation" (November 26-27, 2026 at DIW Berlin).
The Linked Employer-Employee Study of the Socio-Economic Panel was first conducted in 2012 and is now entering its second round. The focus of SOEP-LEE2 is on longer-term changes in labor relations in the context of ongoing...
Current Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
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SOEPpapers 1146 / 2021
This paper analyses the relationship between locus of control (LOC) and the demand for supplementary health insurance. Drawing on longitudinal data from Germany, we find robust evidence that individuals having an internal LOC are more likely to take up supplementary private health insurance (SUPP). The increase in the probability to have a SUPP due to one standard deviation increase in the measure ...
2021| Eric Bonsang, Joan Costa-Font, Sonja DeNew
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SOEPpapers 1143 / 2021
Usually, it is expected that income increases life satisfaction. In recent years tough, research emerged that shows how subjective well-being, including satisfaction, influences objective measures, as for example income. This would then require explicit identification strategies for estimating effects of income on life satisfaction. I address this issue using German SOEP data and Lewbel’s (2012) method, ...
2021| Susanne Elsas
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Press Release
DIW Berlin forecasting experts are lowering their forecast for 2021 from 3.2 to 2.1 percent - Supply bottlenecks and material shortages are weighing on German industry - Private consumption remains restrained - With growth of just under five percent, the German economy will pick up speed in 2022 once bottlenecks have been overcome and infection rates have fallen on a sustained basis - Inflation no ...
16.09.2021
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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...
27.05.2022| Morten Ravn, University College London