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DIW Weekly Report 18/19 / 2025
The average gender pay gap in Germany is 16 percent according to the most recent data. On the occasion of the 2025 Equal Pay Day, this Weekly Report using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data shows that considerable differences according to age and level of education are hiding behind this average gap. For example, the gender pay gap increases significantly with age for people of all educational backgrounds ...
2025| Fiona Herrmann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
This course aims at giving tools to students for entering the frontier of research regarding models of financial stability and economic crises. The focus will be on presenting state-of-the-art concepts and empirical methods on financial stability empirics, and general-purpose analytical and computational techniques that enable students to replicate and extend frontier-research papers in these...
26.05.2025| Christos Koulovatianos
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
This masterclass focuses on recent theoretical advances that incorporate firm heterogeneity into endogenous growth models. Traditional macroeconomic analyses often simplify firm characteristics by using representative-agent frameworks, overlooking significant firm-level differences in productivity, innovation, market power, and pricing decisions. However, empirical analysis of important...
29.05.2025| Antonin Bergeaud
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Graduate Center Masterclasses
In modern empirical macroeconomics, structural vector autoregressions (SVARs) are routinely used to trace out the responses of macroeconomic variables to structural shocks. These structural shocks could be monetary policy shocks, tax shocks, oil price shocks, and many others. For example, central banks use SVARs to analyse the effects of interest movements on the economy. A crucial step in this...
23.03.2026| Martin Bruns
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study investigates how actual and anticipated intergenerational wealth transfers – i.e., inter vivos gifts and inheritances – contribute to inequalities in the transition to homeownership by parental social class. Utilizing discrete-time survival analysis on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel Study (N = 13,018), we find that individuals whose parents were manual workers or service workers ...
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Social Science Research
129 (2025), 103190, 19 S.
| Jascha Dräger, Nora Müller, Klaus Pforr
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper investigates the mental health consequences of spousal death and the role of survivor benefits in mitigating these effects. Using Dutch administrative data and a staggered difference-in-differences, we first document a significant increase in the consumption of benzodiazepines - a proxy for deteriorating mental health - following widowhood (up to +3 percentage points, or +30%, in the...
30.04.2025| Julie Tréguier
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DIW Discussion Papers 2116 / 2025
The Covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, leading governments to provide substantial State Aid to support firms. This paper examines the effectiveness of Covid-related financial support in Spain and Italy, focusing on its impact on firm recovery. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach combined with propensity score weighting, it compares outcomes of similar firms receiving aid ...
2025| Giulia Canzian, Elena Crivellaro, Tomaso Duso, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Alessandro Sasso, Stefano Verzillo
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Personnel news
Martin Kittel, Research Associate in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, successfully defended his dissertation entitled “Five Essays in Energy System Analysis - Exploring the Dunkelflaute and Unintended Storage Cycling” on January 27, 2025. The scientific reviewers were Tom Brown, Claudia Kemfert, and Wolf-Peter Schill. Congratulations!
22.04.2025
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Research Project
Gender inequality remains a pressing issue in our society. Women are underrepresented in many decision-making positions and the gender pay gap remains at 16%. Whether or how language contributes to forming and transporting gender stereotypes has sparked intense scientific and public debate. In German, masculine role nouns are still often used in a generic sense to address people of unknown gender ...
Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics
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Research Project
This project investigates the underlying causes of gender gaps in the labor market, emphasizing skill mismatches, task divisions, social norms, and implicit gender biases.
By employing quasi- and survey-experimental methods with data from Germany and OECD countries, the research examines policies like parental leave and public child care.
It explores the effects of these factors on skill...
Current Project| Gender Economics, Public Economics