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Refugees in Germany with Children Still Living Abroad Have Lowest Life Satisfaction

Family strongly influences personal well-being—especially in the case of refugees, whose family members often remain in their homeland. This report is the first to closely examine the well-being and family structures of refugees who came to Germany between January 2013 and January 2016. It uses data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees in Germany. Among individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine ...

The Local Economic Impact of Wind Power Deployment

This study focuses on the local economic impacts of wind power deployment.Wind power deployment is not necessarily driven by locally accruing economic payoffs only, but potentially also by other factors, such as emphasis on environmentally friendly energy production and its associated benefits. Thus, the local economic impacts of wind power deployment are ambiguous.We empirically test the existence ...

Evaluation of the effectiveness of the rent control introduced in 2015 to dampen rent increases in tight housing markets (Mietpreisbremse)

The project investigates the effectiveness of the rent control for new rental contracts introduced in 2015. The effects of regulation on price formation in the regulated and unregulated housing market will be analyzed. In addition, the effects of the rent control on supply will be examined and the extent to which the law may have prevented investment will be studied.

SOEP-in-Residence – Our guest program

... for researchers interested in using regional data ... for SOEP data users ... for early-career researchers ... for students Our SOEP-in-Residence guest program allows visiting researchers to work with sensitive, small-scale regional datasets that can only be accessed from secure computers located at the SOEP Research Data Center. The program also welcomes SOEP data users who would like support ...

Public Economics Department

The Public Economics Department analyzes how financial, fiscal, and social policies influence economic decisions made by individuals, households, and companies. The department’s key focus is on fiscal and social policy in Germany, with analyses based on microsimulation models and microeconometric methods. Of particular interest are the behavioral patterns of households, companies, and policy...

Climate Policy Department

The Climate Policy Department analyzes the transition to a climate-friendly economy. It explores CO₂ pricing, electricity market design, support and financing instruments, as well as standards and information tools and how they can be effectively structured and coordinated. In the electricity sector, the department examines the further development of the national and European electricity markets...

Constructing Joint Confidence Bands for Impulse Response Functions of VAR Models: A Review

Methods for constructing joint confidence bands for impulse response functions which are commonly used in vector autoregressive analysis are reviewed. While considering separate intervals for each horizon individually still seems to be the most common approach, a substantial number of methods have been proposed for making joint inferences about the complete impulse response paths up to a given horizon. ...

Gender Economics Workshop

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Transport in Figures DIW Energiewende-Monitor Open Energy Tracker Energy Balances “Transport in Figures” is the standard reference work on transport statistics in Germany. The transport statistics database “Transport in Figures,” compiled on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Transport (BMV) by the  DLR Institute of Transport Research  and DIW Berlin, has been published every fall for more ...

Implementing Coal Transition - Insights from Case Studies of Major Coal-Consuming Economies: A Summary Report of the Coal Transitions Project ; Based on Inputs Developed under the Coal Transitions Research Project