Current Members Alumni The SOEP Survey Committee advises the SOEP on survey development and service provision. It consists of up to ten scholars who are appointed by the DIW Board of Trustees. Since 2009, the SOEP has been evaluated regularly by the DIW Berlin Scientific Advisory Board. The focus of these evaluations is on the quality of research conducted by the SOEP team. Urs Fischbacher ...
The Knowledge Transfer division provides a wide variety of services that is directed at three main target groups: survey respondents, (potential) data users, and the general public. The many formats and activities ensure information and documentation as well as mutual exchange through dialogue with external stakeholders. Communication with survey respondents is managed through the study ...
The team of the Survey Methodology and Management division is responsible for all aspects of data collection, ranging from sampling design for the individual subsamples and questionnaire development to research on selectiveness and measurement error in the data. Experts from the team work closely with the SOEP Survey Committee and with infas - Institute for Applied Social Science, that conducts the ...
Purpose and Structure Mission Statement of the SOEP History of the SOEP In memoriam The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) is an independent research-based infrastructure facility and one of the most important research data infrastructures in the field of social, economic and life sciences in Germany. It is part of the national “Roadmap for Research Infrastructures” of the German Federal Ministry of Research, ...
DIW Berlin's Graduate Center (GC) supports young researchers in a structured doctoral program in economics. For the subsequent postdoc phase, DIW Berlin also offers many opportunities for further training and the development of a research network. In addition to an excellent infrastructure at DIW Berlin, doctoral students and postdocs benefit from the GC's close cooperation with universities and research ...
This paper considers a fundamental question about the school environment – what are the long run effects of a student’s ordinal rank in elementary school? Using administrative data from all public school students in Texas, we show that students with a higher third grade academic rank, conditional on ability and classroom effects, have higher subsequent test scores, are more likely to take AP classes, ...
Press release of the project group "Gemeinschaftsdiagnose": German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), ifo Institute, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), RWI - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research
