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Personnel news
Izabela Wnuk-Soares, Research Associate in the Public Economics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays on Immigration, Population Aging, and Labor Markets” with summa cum laude on July 15, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Peter Haan and Jan Stuhler. Congratulations!
17.07.2025
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DIW Discussion Papers 2129 / 2025
Mental health and wellbeing are unequally distributed in high-income countries, disadvan- taging low-income individuals. Unconditional, regular, guaranteed, and individual cash transfers may help address this inequality by promoting financial security and agency. We conducted a preregistered RCT in Germany, where treated participants received monthly payments of EUR 1,200 for three years. Cash transfers ...
2025| Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter
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Video
[English subtitles, German language video] Climate neutrality is possible and necessary—scientists, politicians, and society agree on this. But implementation is stalling. Why? Karsten Neuhoff, Head of the Climate Policy Department at DIW Berlin, explains in the video: There is a lack of the right policy instruments to make climate-friendly investments attractive. The team analyzes international...
15.07.2025| 100 Jahre DIW Berlin
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DIW Discussion Papers 2128 / 2025
This paper provides empirical evidence on which M&A deals spur innovation, and which stifle it. To do so, we consider not only the product market position of the acquiring firm, but also the position of both target and acquirer in the technology space. Focusing on the antidiabetic drugs market, our dataset tracks the lifecycle and patenting of all individual antidiabetic projects in development between ...
2025| Jan Malek, Jo Seldeslachts, Reinhilde Veugelers
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Workshop
This workshop brings together leading scholars to present cutting-edge research at the intersection of climate change, behavioral economics, and expectation formation. The sessions span a wide array of topics, including climate-related decision-making in households and firms, sustainable consumption, labor productivity under climate stressors, and public support for environmental policies.
With a...
17.07.2025| Felix Bierbrauer, Andreas Gerster, Raji Jayaraman, Matthias Rodemeier and others
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DIW Discussion Papers 2126 / 2025
This paper revisits the exporter’s environmental premium (EEP) by incorporating emissions embodied in domestically and internationally sourced intermediate inputs. Combining administrative firm-level data and customs records for German manufacturers with an environmentally extended input-output table and fuel specific emission factors, we document three stylized facts: (i) embodied emissions account ...
2025| Till Köveker, Philipp M. Richter, Alexander Schiersch, Robin Sogalla
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Part I: Lars Felder, "Negative labor supply shock and firms" (Joint with Peter Haan, Johannes Geyer, Jan Nimczik)
In times of an increasing scarcity of workers, Germany has in a rare move decreased the retirement age for a sizeable section of the working force. This paper investigates the effect of this negative labor supply shock on firm and individual level outcomes using matched employer...
09.07.2025| Lars Felder, Maximilian Schaller
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
This paper revisits the exporter’s environmental premium (EEP) by incorporating emissions embodied in domestically and internationally sourced intermediate inputs. Combining administrative firm-level data and customs records for German manufacturers with an environmentally extended input-output table and fuel specific emission factors, we document three stylized facts: (i) embodied emissions...
16.07.2025| Robin Sogalla, DIW Berlin
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter June 2025 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
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03.07.2025
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Publication
The SOEPnewsletter June 2025 is now availabe in English and German. If you would like to receive the new issues automatically by e-mail, please subscribe to the mailing list.
Enjoy reading.
03.07.2025