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The Era of Ever-Larger Dwellings in Germany Is Coming to an End

Over the past 150 years, living space consumption has increased significantly—in Germany from less than half a room to almost two rooms per capita. The average living space per person more than doubled between 1956 and 2024, reaching 49.2 square meters. Rising incomes enabled the construction of ever larger dwellings which led to improved living conditions. Today, the majority of people live in spacious ...

The Generational Gift: The Effects of Grandparental Care on the Next Generations' Health and Well‐Being

Health and well‐being in the family context can be affected by care giving arrangements. Following parental care and daycare, grandparents are the third most important care givers for children in many Western societies. Despite the relevance of grandparental care, there is little evidence on the causal effects of this care mode on the next generations' health and well‐being. In this paper, we fill ...

Baseload Power Plants Are Not Essential for Future Power Systems

The transition to decarbonized energy systems has fueled a controversial debate over the necessity of traditional ‘‘baseload’’ power. Skepticism remains regarding the reliability and economic feasibility of power systems relying mainly on cheap variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. Addressing this, the German Academies’ project ‘‘Energy Systems of the Future’’ (ESYS) analyzed the role of baseload ...

Manufacturing Work beyond Manufacturing Industries: Rethinking Structural Change in Germany

Child Penalties in Labour Market Skills

This paper estimates child penalties in labour-market-relevant cognitive skills, such as numeracy but also literacy and problem-solving competencies. We use international PIAAC data and adapt a pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section covering 29 countries. Numeracy scores, which are associated with the largest returns to skills and pronounced gender differences, decline by 0.11 standard deviations ...

Career Concerns and Managerial Risk Taking: Evidence from the NFL

Risky decisions in organizations may be distorted away from profit maximization if managers care about their reputation, i.e., public perceptions of their ability. Because reputation is hard to measure, documenting such distortions is difficult in most contexts. We provide evidence that the decision making of head coaches in the National Football League (NFL) is distorted by reputation concerns....

A Typology of Younger Adults' Nuclear and Extende Family Relations in the United States

Objective: To develop a typology of relationship quality for nuclear and extended family relations of younger adults in the United States, accounting for variation across kinship types and racial/ethnic groups. Background: Existing typologies of family relationships primarily focus on nuclear ties, often neglecting relations with extended kin. Ties to extended kin are, however, central to many people's ...

Younger Adults’ Nuclear and Extended Family Relationships in Europe: A Latent Class Analysis

The present study identifies and compares typical classes of relationship qualities in the nuclear and extended family ties of younger adults across nine European countries (Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, as well as the Nordic countries Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden). We used KINMATRIX data that were collected online in 2022-23 from an ego-centric perspective of ...

Jürgen Schupp enters well-deserved retirement

Last week, SOEP celebrated Jürgen Schupp and his forthcoming (at the end of the year) retirement. During the ceremony, he humorously referred to himself as SOEP's “dinosaur.” During his 41 years at DIW Berlin, he initially worked as a research assistant, then as the survey manager in the infrastructure unit. Subsequently, he was its director for many years. His impressive career as a researcher was ...

In Germany, average housing prices are stabilizing after two years of decline, while rents continue to rise