Marie Le Mouel, who worked at the Firms and Markets department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Technische Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Knowledge-Based Capital and Firm Productivity" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso (Technische Universität Berlin, DIW Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Alexandra Spitz-Oener (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). We congratulate ...
Last week, 12 new Ph.D. graduates received their certificates. In a festive ceremony with musical accompaniment, the new Ph.D.s were honored by the Graduate Center dean Prof. Georg Weizsäcker Ph.D. and the head of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) Hans Joachim Schellnhuber who held the commencement speech. We wish each and every one much success in their future careers! ...
Tomaso Duso was elected as an academic member in the Stearing Committee of the Association of Competition Economics (ACE) starting on 1st January 2019. ACE was created in 2003 and brings together competition economists working in government, academia and the private sector. It provides a forum for discussion and debate on competition-related policies and specific cases. It is a not-for-profit ...
Wishing you the happiest of holidays and a healthy and successful 2019. On behalf of the whole SOEP team at DIW Berlin. Please note that the SOEP-FDZ is closed from December 21, 2018 until January 4, 2019!
We propose a regression-adjusted matched difference-in-differences framework to estimate non-pecuniary returns to adult education. This approach combines kernel matching with entropy balancing to account for selection bias and sorting on gains. Using data from the German SOEP,we evaluate the effect of work-related training, which represents the largest portion of adult education in OECD countries, ...
We are very grateful to two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of this article. We are also grateful to seminar participants at the Bank of Italy, Free University of Berlin, University of Naples, Humboldt University of Berlin, IAAE 2016 (Milan), 7th Ifo Conference 2016 (Munich) and EEA 2016 (Geneva), as well as to Rudi Bachmann, Christoph Große Steffen, Michael ...
