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SOEP-Core v41 – Codebook for the $PEQUIV (SOEP-CNEF) File 1984-2024: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Register now for the online workshop series SOEPcampus: Learn to use the SOEP over lunch

In March/April 2026 our online over lunch seminar series returns with one last workshop this year. The workshop provides a comprehensive, practical introduction to the data of the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) on three Wednesdays during lunchtime. Participants will learn about the study's content, data structure, sample selection, and weighting strategy, along with an overview of the study documentation. To ...

SOEP User Conference 2026 - Call for Papers

The call for papers for the 16th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference is online. SOEP 2026 will take place from July 8-9, 2026, in Berlin, and researchers from all disciplines are invited to submit an abstract. We particularly welcome contributions addressing meta-science, robustness, replicability, reproducibility, and open science. This includes, but is not limited to, studies ...

Private companies promise commercial fusion energy in a few years, although large-scale research projects remain in the realm of fundamental research

Trends in Relative and Absolute Mobility of Homeownership in Europe

Homeownership has declined among younger generations in most European countries. A common assumption is that this trend is increasingly stratified by parental homeownership, due to worsening affordability and the growing importance of parental financial support. In this study, we show that this assumption does not hold for the average European. Using data from EU-SILC 2011 and 2019 across 27 European ...

Wrong Fit, Missed Gains? Evidence from Skill Training Choices in Liberia

Young job seekers commonly misperceive training returns; we test whether these beliefs misalign choices between two widely offered tracks—job-skills and business-skills training for young women in Liberia. We reassign 30 percent of the applicants from an oversubscribed job-skills program to business-skills and compare them to applicants who remain in their preferred track. In the short run, reassigned ...

Electric Mobility in Germany: Untapped Potential

A rapid transition from combustion engines to electric vehicles is essential for climate protection in road transport. This report highlights current trends in electric mobility in Germany based on data from the Open Energy Tracker platform. Although new registrations of electric passenger cars and commercial vehicles have recently increased, overall, electric mobility is still developing slowly. Newly ...

Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans in Experimental Economics

The open science movement has gained significant momentum over the past decade, with pre-registration and the use of pre-analysis plans being central to ongoing debates. Combining observational evidence on trends in adoption with survey data from 519 researchers, this study examines the adoption of pre-registration in experimental economics. Pooling statistics from 19 leading journals published between ...

The Artificial Intelligence Experience and Attitude Survey (AIEAS): A Brief Measure for Socio-Economic Panel Studies

Large-scale socio-economic panel studies aim to document societal trends and public opinions using representative population samples. Despite the profound impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on public and private life across diverse contexts, these studies have rarely addressed the use and evaluation of AI for individual respondents. Therefore, a standardized assessment instrument is introduced ...

Adeline Guéret has successfully defended her dissertation

Adeline Guéret, Research Associate at DIW Berlin (Energy, Transportation, Environment Department) and Ph.D. student at Technische Universität Berlin, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Future energy systems with battery electric vehicles: assessing impacts, evaluating models” with summa cum laude on January 28, 2026. Congratulations!