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Publications
For publication in the series of DIW discussion papers the following may be submitted: Papers by DIW employees, DIW research professors and directors, DIW research affiliates and guest scientists who have spent at least one week at DIW Berlin and thank DIW Berlin in a footnote. Papers submitted will be sent in electronic form to the head of the relevant department at DIW Berlin. ...
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Personnel news
The Vienna University of Economics and Business has awarded Julia Schmieder from the Public Economics department with the Prize for Young Researchers, as well as the Prize for Outstanding Contributions to the Economic Policy Debate in Austria.
The Graduate Center and its dean Prof. Weizsäcker congratulate her on the success!
29.07.2019
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DIW Discussion Papers 1815 / 2019
Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long run effects of one additional year of universal childcare on students’ personality traits in adolescence. We ...
2019| Maximilian Bach, Josefine Koebe, Frauke H. Peter
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Statement
DIW president Marcel Fratzscher on the European Central Bank's latest announcements:
25.07.2019| Marcel Fratzscher
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Personnel news
Mara Berschkett, from the Graduate Center has been granted a scholarship from the Network for Old Age Provision (Forschungsnetzwerk Alterssicherung) from Ocotber 2019 on.
The Dean of the Graduate Center, Prof. Weizsäcker congratulates her on the success!
25.07.2019
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Personnel news
Jakob Miethe, who works at the International Economics department, has successfully defended his dissertation at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The dissertation with the title "Offshore Finance and the Economics of Regulation and Reform" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Lukas Menkhoff (DIW Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D. (DIW Berlin, Humboldt-Universität ...
24.07.2019
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Personnel news
Julia Schmieder, who works at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at the Freie Universität Berlin.
The dissertation with the title "Essays in Labor and Demographic Economics" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Peter Haan (DIW Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Andrea Weber (Central European University).
We congratulate Julia on her success and ...
24.07.2019
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DIW Weekly Report 30 / 2019
The debate on effective climate protection is heating up in Germany and the rest of the world. Nuclear energy is being touted as “clean” energy. Given the circumstances, the present study analyzed the historical, current, and future costs and risks of nuclear energy. The findings show that nuclear energy can by no means be called “clean” due to radioactive emissions, which will endanger humans and ...
2019| Ben Wealer, Simon Bauer, Leonard Göke, Christian von Hirschhausen, Claudia Kemfert
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Graduate Center Short Course
This course is fully booked.
The Berlin School of Economics (BSE) and the Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA) with the support of Collaborative Research Center TRR 190 Rationality and Competition gladly announce that on September 2-4 and 4-6, 2019, Jann Spiess, Assistant Professor from Stanford Graduate School of Business, will give two courses on Machine Learning: An Applied...
02.09.2019| Jann Spiess, Stanford Graduate School of Business
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Report
Deadline for the 2020 Survey: September 30, 2019.
Use the Survey of Refugees, now in its fourth wave, for your own research questions.
The IAB, BAMF, and SOEP invite researchers to propose questions to be added to the Survey of Refugees questionnaire in 2020, its fourth wave. If you would like to suggest any additional questions or items on refugees that are relevant to your current ...
01.07.2019