The European Energy Union envisages important developments for the power sector: According to the Commission’s modelling, the economic pathway of decarbonizing the energy sector involves 27% of renewable in the European energy mix by 2030. This is backed by a corresponding renewable target, and will most likely result in significantly higher shares of renewables in the power sector....
Under Secretary Sheets’ remarks will address the state of the global economy and emphasize that supply-side and demand-side measures are complementary and that both are necessary to foster strong, sustainable, and balanced growth.
Since end of September the fieldwork institute conducting the SOEP surveys since more than 30 years has changed its name to Kantar Public. As Kantar Public Germany it remains an independent institute focusing on social and political research. Jürgen Schupp, Director of the SOEP, expects Kantar Public to produce data on a wide range of political and social research topics that meet highe scientific ...
Individual willingness to enter competitive environments predicts career choices and labor market outcomes. Meanwhile, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful. We use two laboratory experiments to investigate whether factors related to stress can help explain individual differences in tournament entry. Experiment 1 studies whether stress responses (measured as salivary cortisol) to ...
The scientific study MORE is designed to deliver first results on the role of civic engagement in the short- and long-term integration of refugees in Germany. The intervention study is being carried out by the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB). It is funded through the Leibniz...
DIW Berlin examined the causes for the gender gap in financial literacy in several countries – Cultural factors play a key role in addition to income, education, and experience – Better financial literacy would mean more financial security for women in retirement In most countries of the world, women know less about financial matters than men. Socio-demographic factors such as income, ...
This paper establishes a new fact about educational production: ordinal academic rank during primary school has long-run impacts on later achievement that are independent from underlying ability. Using data on the universe of English school students, we examine a setting in which the same baseline score on a national standardized test can correspond to different ranks among students situated in...
In most countries, women have a lower level of financial literacy than men on average. This report demonstrates that differences in income and education and less experience in financial matters only provide a partial explanation for the gender gap. Data from various countries show that cultural differences may also play a role. In order to close the gender gap in financial literacy, schools should ...
Ms. Grohmann, you have examined the gender gap in financial literacy. In general, do women know more or less about financial matters than men do? On average, women know less about financial matters than men in most countries. There are exceptions – Thailand and Russia, for example – but in 135 out of 144 countries, women know less about finances than men. [...] The ...
