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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Does increased legal infrastructure empower victims to leave abusive relationships? Structural barriers often prevent victims of intimate partner violence from seeking help and leaving their abuser, with two-thirds of female victims in Europe neither reporting incidents to the police nor accessing support services. I study the introduction of the 2002 Violence Protection Act in Germany, which...
25.06.2025| Clara Schäper
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DIW Discussion Papers 2123 / 2025
How does basic income (a regular, unconditional, guaranteed cash transfer) impact labor supply? We show that in search models of the labor market with income effects, this impact is theoretically ambiguous: Employment and job durations might increase or decrease, match surplus might be shifted to workers or employers, and worker surplus might be reallocated between wages and job amenities. We thus ...
2025| Sarah Bernhard, Sandra Bohmann, Susann Fiedler, Maximilian Kasy, Jürgen Schupp, Frederik Schwerter
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Research Project
The Collaborative Research Center Transregio “Rationality and Competition” combines the research programs of behavioral and neoclassical economists to study applied economic questions that are of high policy relevance. The focus CRC TRR 190 is on the economic behavior and performance of individuals and firms: How do systematic biases in expectations, decision processes, and preferences affect the...
Current Project| Public Economics
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DIW Discussion Papers 2125 / 2025
This paper examines the gendered impact of divorce on earnings and the role of the social policy context in shaping this relationship. In particular, it focuses on a policy reform enacted in Germany in 2008 that overturned previous ex-spousal support rules. Data come from the administrative records of the German Public Pension Fund. Drawing on a fixed- effects model, we study the behaviour of women ...
2025| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sarah Schmauk, Katharina Wrohlich, Daniel Brüggmann
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Personnel news
Laura Pagenhardt, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Policy in Practice: Communication, Rules, and Income Inequality - Essays in Empirical Macroeconomics” on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Alexander Kriwoluzky and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!
30.06.2025
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Personnel news
Hannah Seidl, Research Associate in the Macroeconomics Department, successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Essays in Macroeconomics” with summa cum laude on June 26, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Lutz Weinke and Marcel Fratzscher. Congratulations!
30.06.2025
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Nachrichten [FDZ SOEP]
All registered data users can now order the latest data v40 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.core.v40eu) via our online order form.
In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Important news for v40:
New samples: With the migration sample M8c and the refugee sample M9, two new samples were added to the SOEP data in cooperation with IAB and BAMF.
Several data set errors ...
27.06.2025| SOEP Community Management
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Publication
All registered data users can now order the latest data v40 (DOI: 10.5684/soep.core.v40eu) via our online order form.
In German: http://www.diw.de/SOEPbestellungIn English: http://www.diw.de/SOEPorder
Important news for v40:
New samples: With the migration sample M8c and the refugee sample M9, two new samples were added to the SOEP data in cooperation with IAB and BAMF.
Several data set errors ...
27.06.2025| SOEP Community Management
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Video
On June 25th, 2025, the Future Power Markets Platform (Karsten Neuhoff) and Future Power Markets Forum (Benjamin Hobbs) jointly organized a Webinar, to get first hand insights from people involved during the implementation of nodal pricing across North American market regions. The first part of the webinar – input presentations from each of the four experts – is included in this recording.
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26.06.2025| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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SOEPpapers 1226 / 2025
While the body of literature on the non-take-up of public aid has grown substantially in recent years, a notable gap remains in the literature of non-take-up rates for student aid programs, where research is still extremely limited. This paper examines the non-take-up rate of Germany’s federal student aid program BAföG by creating a microsimulation based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
2025| Alexander Eriksson Byström, María Sól Antonsdóttir