This study investigates the causal effect of Germany’s second-generation rent control policy — the Mietpreisbremse (rental brake) — on residential housing construction. Using administrative data covering nearly 11,000 German municipalities from 2010 to 2024, we employ staggered difference-in-differences estimators to address methodological biases of conventional two-way fixed effects models in settings ...
Locus of control is a fruitful concept for analysing how individuals perceive and evaluate their migration histories, yet it remains underused in migration research. It offers a way to address central questions of agency and discrimination in migration processes without relying on ‘critical’ reductions such as ethnicisation or migrantisation, which pose well-known challenges for (trans)national research ...
We study how ethnic representation within the police force affects the outcomes of youth in minority communities. Using Swedish administrative data, we identify the first police officer from a given ethnic group and neighborhood and estimate the effects on others from the same community. We implement an event-study difference-in-differences design, comparing outcomes before and after the officer...
How can we understand social change, social inequalities, and individual life trajectories over time? This question is at the heart of the 11th ÖAW-STAT Lecture, taking place in Vienna on 21 October 2026. The featured speaker is Sabine Zinn, Director of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Her lecture will focus on the importance of longitudinal ...
