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Migrants’ Missing Votes

Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also selfselected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties in Poland that have experienced ...

Parent-Child Mismatches in Educational Aspirations: Prevalence, Stability, and Convergence over Time

Parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations may negatively affect child development. We examine (1) the prevalence of mismatching aspirations across school grades 3–9 (ages 8–15), (2) their stability over time, and (3) whether mismatching aspirations converge to parents’ or to children’s aspirations. We use data from two German National Educational Panel Study cohorts (“kindergarten”: N=4,217, ...

Structural Change in Germany: Challenges for Growth and Productivity

Germany is at the onset of a profound structural change that will have a lasting impact on the dynamics of productivity and economic growth. Global megatrends such as changes in international trade, digitalisation, decarbonisation and demographic change will accelerate structural change and have far-reaching consequences for productivity growth, the international competitiveness of the German economy ...

Strukturwandel in den Regionen: Was sich ändert und wie die Politik reagieren sollte

In Germany, the structural shift away from industry has long been much slower than in other similarly developed countries. Now, it is increasingly being shaped by global megatrends such as digitisation, decarbonisation, demographic change and changing international economic relations. There are significant regional differences in the adaptation processes: urban areas benefit from inno¬vation density ...

Publications Welfare effects and social implications

World Economic Outlook Chapter on industrial policies

World Economic Outlook Chapter on industrial policies Countries are increasingly using industrial policy to reshape their economies by supporting strategic sectors and firms. Motivations include boosting productivity, reducing reliance on imports—especially in energy—and enhancing resilience. Industrial policies can help jump-start domestic industries, but their efficacy is sensitive to sector...

Intergenerational Health Mobility in Germany

We describe the joint permanent health distribution of parents and children in Germany using 25 years of data from the Socio-Economic Panel. We derive three main results: First, a ten percentile increase in parental permanent health is associated with a 2.3 percentile increase in their child’s health. Second, employing our anchoring method, we find that a percentile point increase in permanent health ...

Institutional Cooperations

As professional exchange is a prerequisite for excellence in research, policy consulting, early career development and infrastructure provision, it plays an important role in DIW Berlin’s work. National and international networks enrich the institute’s scientific research while holding researchers to global academic standards. DIW Berlin’s research departments and SOEP actively partake in collaborative ...

Artificial Intelligence and Workers' Well-Being

This study explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and workers’ wellbeing and mental health using longitudinal survey data from Germany (2000-2020). We construct a measure of individual exposure to AI technology based on the occupation in which workers in our sample were first employed and explore an event study design and a difference-in-differences approach to compare AI-exposed ...

Analysis of Survey Data in the Presence of Non-Ignorable Missing-Data and Selection Mechanisms

Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit Methoden zur Behandlung von nicht-ignorierbaren fehlenden Daten und Stichprobenverzerrungen – zwei häufig auftretenden Problemen bei der Analyse von Umfragedaten. Beide Datenprobleme können die Qualität der Analyseergebnisse erheblich beeinträchtigen und zu irreführenden Inferenzen über die Population führen. Daher behandle ich innerhalb von drei verschiedenen ...