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Monetary returns to tertiary degrees for non-traditional alumni

The work in progress to be presented focuses on the income mobility of non-traditional alumni in comparison to their traditional counterparts. Based on a rational-choice-approach, I assume that non-traditional alumni are driven to study by their desire to earn more money. Due to their previous occupational career, non-traditionals have more human capital to exchange for better earnings in the...

GC welcomes Georg Weizsäcker as new dean

In January 2017, the DIW Graduate Center is happy to welcome its new dean, Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph.D.. He is professor at Humboldt-University of Berlin with research interests on experimental economics, financial decision-making, game theory, decision theory, and microeconomics. He's currently teaching as visiting professor at Stanford University in the winter term 2016/17 and will return to ...

Finance and Development 2017

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Empirics on the Long-Run Effects of Building Energy Codes in the Housing Market

We study the effectiveness of building energy codes, taking a long-run perspective. The focus is on regulation’s impact on energy demand in both high- and low-quality residences, in other words, the diffusion and the entry of “green” buildings in the housing market. We develop a measure for regulation intensity and apply this to a panel-error-correction regression model for energy requirements of a ...

Genetic Variants Linked to Education Predict Longevity

Educational attainment is associated with many health outcomes, including longevity. It is also known to be substantially heritable. Here, we used data from three large genetic epidemiology cohort studies (Generation Scotland, n = ∼17,000; UK Biobank, n = ∼115,000; and the Estonian Biobank, n = ∼6,000) to test whether education-linked genetic variants can predict lifespan length. We did so by using ...

SOEP 2016 – Erhebungsinstrumente 2016 (Welle 33) des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels: Die verstorbene Person, Altstichproben

SOEP 2016 – Erhebungsinstrumente 2016 (Welle 33) des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels: Personenfragebogen Kurzfassung (Lücke), Altstichproben

SOEP 2016 – Erhebungsinstrumente 2016 (Welle 33) des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels: Frühe Jugend (13-14 Jahre), Altstichproben

Job risk, fertility, and female labor supply

Recent research from the demographic and economic literature suggests a strong link between labor market uncertainty and fertility. Taking this relationship into account, I take a new look at parental leave policies in Germany. Using a dynamic structural life-cycle model of female labor supply and fertility, I will evaluate the impact of these policies under job risks and with fixed-term contracts...

Helping with the Kids? How Family-Friendly Workplaces Affect Parental Well-Being and Behavior

Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the well-being, working time, and caring behavior of mothers with young children. We exploit the fact that since the ...