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Climate concerns in Germany have been growing since 2013

Climate Concerns Are Increasingly Affecting Germans

Climate change triggers anxiety in many people. Concerns about the consequences of climate change vary significantly not just by age and generation but also over time. Using German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report examines the extent to which these differences stem from age-related effects, generational socialization, or year-specific events. The results show that climate concerns ...

Geolinking Service SoRa: Successful Soft Launch

The Geolinking Service SoRa enables spatial analysis of social science survey data and contributes to socio-spatial research. It provides pre-prepared geospatial datasets as well as methods for linking survey and spatial data. On 13 May, a successful soft launch was held as an online event with 100 participants. To facilitate exchange among users of the SoRa geolinking service, a dedicated discussion ...

Information, Justice and Public Support for Carbon Tax-and-Divided Policies: Experimental Evidence from Germany

Carbon pricing can deliver large emissions reductions, but public opposition remains a key barrier. We study how support for carbon tax-and-transfer schemes depends on policy design and information provision in a large-scale survey experiment with German respondents. Explaining the policy mechanism robustly increases support across price levels. Information on distributional consequences raises support ...

Nuclear Fusion Research Shifts Focus: Commercial Niche Products instead of Energy Promises

Nuclear fusion research shifts focus: commercial niche products instead of energy generation. Nuclear fusion, in which atomic nuclei are fused, promises clean, safe, and virtually inexhaustible energy. Since the 1950s, this promise has justified extensive public investment in research, without any real progress being made toward commercial use in the energy sector. However, nuclear fusion research ...

Monetary and Fiscal Interactions

Public debt has reached historically high levels in many advanced economies and continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. This development has brought questions of fiscal sustainability, macroeconomic stability, and the appropriate conduct of monetary and fiscal policy to the forefront of policy debates worldwide. This five-lecture course investigates the mechanisms and conditions under which...

Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long-running panel...

SOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2026

On October 6 and 7, 2026, we are organizing a two-day workshop on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin. In addition to presentations on the composition, data structure, sampling design, and weighting strategy, hands-on sessions will offer a practical approach to the data and its potential. The workshop is aimed at researchers at all qualification levels who want to work with SOEP data in...

Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general well-being, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long-running panel...

Construction volume rebounds in 2026: public civil engineering leads, new residential construction follows