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Refereed essays Web of Science
Using electricity for heating can contribute to decarbonization and provide flexibility to integrate variable re-newable energy. We analyze the case of electric storage heaters in German 2030 scenarios with an open-sourceelectricity sector model. We find that flexible electric heaters generally increase the use of generation tech-nologies with low variable costs, which are not necessarily renewables. ...
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Applied Energy
266 (2020), 114571, 18 S.
| Wolf-PeterSchill, AlexanderZerrahn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Despite considerable variation in gender-role attitudes across contexts and its claimed influence on female labour supply, studies provide little support for a contextual gender-role attitude effect. In this study, we reassess the contextual gender-role attitude effect on female labour supply because earlier studies are hampered by two shortcomings: (a) they are cross-nationally comparative, which ...
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European Sociological Review
35 (2019), 5, S. 669–683
| Wilfred Uunk, Philipp M. Lersch
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According to a study based on SOEP data, thanks to the increasing freedom to choose between parenthood and gainful employment and to organize childcare individually, mothers and fathers today are more satisfied with their lives than parents 20 or 30 years ago. The study was conducted by a research group led by Swiss sociologist Klaus Preisner.
Preisner, Klaus, Franz Neuberger, Ariane Bertogg, ...
30.04.2020
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background: Residential relocations of couple households are associated with increases in objective gender inequality within families in paid and unpaid work. Little is known about how couples’ relocations affect subjective outcomes such as attitudes.Objective: We examine whether gender role attitudes change when families move residentially in Britain, empirically addressing potential explanations. ...
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Demographic Research
40 (2019), Art. 39, S. 1111–1152
| Sergi Vidal, Philipp M.Lersch
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The Leibniz Association Senate awarded the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin the rating of “excellent” for overall performance in its 2019 evaluation. The recently released evaluation report describes the SOEP as an outstanding research data infrastructure that has achieved the highest levels of recognition worldwide. It goes on to say that the SOEP’s exceptionally well prepared ...
29.04.2020| Monika Wimmer
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What are the economic and social consequences of the corona pandemic for people in Germany, now and in the future? SOEP researchers are exploring this question together with researchers from the University of Bielefeld, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), Charité Berlin, and the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB Berlin) as part of the research project “Socio-Economic Factors in and Consequences ...
29.04.2020| Stefan Liebig
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Personnel news
Michael Krämer has been working as a research assistant at the SOEP since November 1, 2019, on the DFG-funded project, “Personality and social relationship dynamics: Short- and medium-term processes in daily life (DIPS),” with David Richter. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a Master of Science in Clinical and Health Psychology, both from Freie Universität Berlin. ...
29.04.2020
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DIW Discussion Papers 1849 / 2020
The superstar firms model provides a compelling explanation for two simultaneously occurring phenomena: the rise of concentration in industries and the fall of labor shares. Our empirical analysis confirms two of the underlying assumptions of the model: the market share increases and the labor share decreases with increasing firm-level total factor productivity, providing support for the superstar ...
2020| Alexander Schiersch, Caroline Stiel
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DIW Discussion Papers 1870 / 2020
Policymakers have implemented a wide range of non-pharmaceutical interventions to fight the spread of COVID-19. Variation in policies across jurisdictions and over time strongly suggests a difference-in-differences (DD) research design to estimate causal effects of counter-COVID measures. We discuss threats to the validity of these DD designs and make recommendations about how researchers can avoid ...
2020| Andrew Goodman-Bacon, Jan Marcus
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DIW Discussion Papers 1869 / 2020
This paper analyzes the causal relationship between institutional diversity in domestic banking sectors and bank stability. We use a large bank- and country-level unbalanced panel data set covering the EU member states’ banking sectors between 1998 and 2014. Constructing two distinct indicators for measuring institutional diversity, we find that a high degree of institutional diversity in the domestic ...
2020| Christopher F. Baum, Caterina Forti Grazzini, Dorothea Schäfer