Benchmarking methods are widely used in the regulation of firms in network industries working under heterogeneous exogenous environments. In this paper we compare three recently developed estimators, namely conditional DEA (Daraio and Simar, 2005, 2007b), latent class SFA (Orea and Kumbhakar, 2004; Greene, 2005), and the StoNEZD approach (Johnson and Kuosmanen, 2011) by means of Monte Carlo simulation ...
In the file with generated longitudinal data on children (KIDLONG) in SOEP-Core v31.1 another correction had to be implemented: Some few data that only had been asked in the FiD study were missing.This applies to the variables KA06$$ (Activities for children below the age of 6) and KA16$$ (Activities for children aged 6 to 16).If you want to analyze these variables there are three ways to use the corrected ...
We recently published the SOEP data (SOEP v31.1) in long format. If you are registered as SOEP data user you may order the data online and receive a personalized link to download the data via completely encrypted transfers. Other interested researchers please have a look at our websites or contact the SOEPhotline to get information on access to the data. "SOEPlong" is a highly compressed, ...
Elisabeth Bügelmayer, department of German Socio-Economic Panel, has successfully defended her dissertation at Freie Universität Berlin. The dissertation with the title “Survey and Experimental Evidence on the Development of Children's Preferences and Skills" was supervised by Katharina Spieß (Freie Universität Berlin). The Dean Prof. Dr. Helmut Lütkepohl congratulates ...
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children’s far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young people’s right-wing extremism are parents’ right-wing extremist attitudes. While intergenerational associations ...
