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SOEP User Conference 2026 - Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies ...

Private companies promise commercial fusion energy in a few years, although large-scale research projects remain in the realm of fundamental research

Nuclear Fusion Research Shifts Focus: Commercial Niche Products instead of Energy Promises

Nuclear fusion research shifts focus: commercial niche products instead of energy generation. Nuclear fusion, in which atomic nuclei are fused, promises clean, safe, and virtually inexhaustible energy. Since the 1950s, this promise has justified extensive public investment in research, without any real progress being made toward commercial use in the energy sector. However, nuclear fusion research ...

Monetary and Fiscal Interactions

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...

Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

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...

SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2026

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...

Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

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...

Construction volume rebounds in 2026: public civil engineering leads, new residential construction follows

SOEP-Core – 2023: Grip Strength (with Reference to Variables)

Adeline Guéret has successfully defended her dissertation

Adeline Guéret, Research Associate at DIW Berlin (Energy, Transportation, Environment Department) and Ph.D. student at Technische Universität Berlin, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Future energy systems with battery electric vehicles: assessing impacts, evaluating models” with summa cum laude on January 28, 2026. Congratulations!