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SOEP-Core v41 – Activity Biography in the Datasets "pbiospe" and "artkalen"

SOEP-Core v41 – SELFEMPL: Self-Employed Survey Data

SOEP-Core v41 – LEE2PERSON: SOEP-LEE2 PID-EID Linkage File

Industry decarbonisation in times of energy crisis: DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogue

As part of the DIW-OECD Industrial Strategy Dialogues, this event will explore how strategic international partnerships can accelerate the decarbonisation of the steel sector. Steel is a cornerstone of modern economies but also one of the most emissions intensive industries — an issue made even more urgent by the current energy crisis, which has exposed the vulnerability of carbon intensive...

Labor Market Entry Dynamics and Mental Health Outcomes among Young People with and without Disability

Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...

Does International Climate Finance Contribute to the Adoption of Zero Deforestation Policies? Insights from Brazil and Indonesia

International climate finance (ICF) is a critical mechanism for reducing deforestation and supporting global climate cooperation, yet its effectiveness is often questioned on account of scale and implementation challenges. This paper addresses the question whether ICF, implemented through Official Development Assistance (ODA), is catalysing policy adoption in the land use, land use change, and forestry ...

Reassessing Proxy-based Identification of Multiple Monetary Policy Shocks for the Euro Area, the US, and the UK

Several recent studies consider a set of proxies to identify different monetary policy shocks for different regions in the world. We show that the way the proxies are used to identify the monetary policy shocks may lead to correlated shocks and dubious structural analysis and we demonstrate how to overcome the problem of correlated shocks. We illustrate that, if correlated shocks are used in applied ...

Measuring Ambiguity Attitudes Reliably in Surveys

This seminar introduces ambiguity, explains why it matters in economics, and discusses how ambiguity attitudes are typically measured in empirical research. Ambiguity plays an important role in decision-making, as most situations in life involve unknown outcomes or probabilities. However, people’s attitudes toward ambiguity are hard to measure precisely, as standard measures based on incentivized...

The “Nuclear Energy Paradox": Investigating Nuclear Imaginaries in Energy Projections

Current energy projections often envision an expansion of nuclear capacities to decarbonize future energy systems. However, this contrasts with the historic and current status of the nuclear industry, marked by techno-economic challenges for both light-water and non-light-water reactor technologies. Regardless, projections of strong nuclear growth have persisted since the 1970s. This paper investigates ...

Is There an Information Channel of Monetary Policy?

Exploiting the heteroskedasticity of the changes in short-term and long-term interest rates and exchange rates around the FOMC announcement, we identify three structural monetary policy shocks. We eliminate the predictable part of the shocks and study their effects on financial variables and macro variables. The first shock resembles a conventional monetary policy shock, and the second resembles an ...