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SOEP-Core – 2017: Personenfragebogen Kurzfassung (Lücke), Altstichproben

Voices of GC

What our students and alumni say about their experience at the DIW Graduate Center:

Organization

The Executive Board is in charge of overall management at DIW Berlin and is comprised of the president, managing director, and another scientific Executive Board member. The Executive Board represents the institute externally, is responsible for the institute’s scholarly and scientific affairs, and assumes commercial, legal, and administrative responsibility. One Executive Board member is appointed ...

About Us

The Institute DIW Berlin combines excellence in research, research-based policy advice, the provision of research infrastructure, and the promotion of young scientists. The institute conducts research on economic and social issues and delivers policy advice based on its findings. As an independent institution, DIW Berlin thinks and acts in an international context, providing expertise on pressing ...

SOEP Survey Committee

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 ...

Division Knowledge Transfer

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 website ...

Division Survey Methododology and Management

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 ...

Structure

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, ...

Young Researchers

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 ...

Class Rank and Long-Run Outcomes

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, ...