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Improving Migration Outcomes: A Mentoring Experiment and its Network Effects in Senegal (with Bernd Beber, Zara Riaz, and Juni Singh)

In this paper we study the effectiveness of a randomized migration mentoring program, and the role of network embeddedness at origin, for migration decisions and outcomes in rural Senegal. The mentoring program improves job expectations when migrating, migration experiences, and economic outcomes. When the mentoring is attended by randomly assigned migrant from the origin village, positive...

The Impact of COVID-19 Government Responses on Remittances in Latin American Countries

Workers' remittances declined sharply as the COVID-19 pandemic spread in the first half of 2020, rebounding in the second half. This paper analyses the impact of containment and economic support measures on remittances sent to Latin America during 2019–2020 using a gravity model estimated with the Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood estimator (PPML). Results show that containment measures in receiving ...

The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on Middle East and North Africa Exports of Intermediate and Final Goods

This paper is the first to analyse the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) and the harmonisation of rules of origin (RoO) on Middle East and North African (MENA) countries’ exports differentiating between final and intermediate goods for a global sample of trade partners. Data on exports from four MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) to 61 destinations over the period 1995–2016 are ...

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Cracking Under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment during COVID-19 in Germany

The COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented challenges to gender equality, particularly affecting working parents due to disruptions in daycare and school operations. It also impacted labor market opportunities for both men and women. This study investigates shifts in gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany during pandemic lockdowns and subsequent periods of eased restrictions, using ...

SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin: In-person workshop on November 17-18, 2025

On November 17 and 18, 2025 we are organizing a two-day in-person workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the study itself, its 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 of all qualification levels who want to work ...

MINDSET_Clean_H2

The MINDSET_Clean_H2 research project aims to develop innovative open-source models that align the uptake of hydrogen (H2) in the EU with developments in international markets. By combining game-theoretic analyses with numerical modelling and machine learning methods, a set of instruments is developed that can also be used in the face of changing regulation and market developments. The aim is to...

Restrictive Rental Policies and a Tough Trade Off: Lower Rents vs. Less Construction in Geneva

We study how rent control and housing rationing shape housing investment and market tightness in Geneva using a VAR on annual data (1994–2022) with generalized impulse responses and Granger causality. We find that housing rationing functions as a binding quantity restriction as it precedes a contraction in new institutional construction and Granger-causes lower vacancy rates. This increased scarcity ...

SOEP 2026 – 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference

The 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2026) will be held in Berlin from July 8 to 9, 2026 at the Quadriga Campus.  The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with their peers. This includes users of the SOEP part of the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF), LIS/LWS data, and SOEP-IS, as well as...

SOEP-Core v40.1 – HGEN: Household-Related Status and Generated Variables