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Carsten Schröder (FU Berlin), Deputy Head of the Research Infrastructure SOEP, has been elected to the International Board of Directors of the LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg. He follows Gert G. Wagner, who took the position of the late Joachim R. Frick on the Board three years ago. The Chairman of the Board is renowned British economist Sir Tony Atkinson (Oxford University), ...
06.10.2015
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Frederike Esche, graduate student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS) and member of the SOEP team from 2010 to 2013, successfully defended her dissertation “Mine, yours or our problem? Does unemployment affect the life satisfaction within couples and does it increase the risk of partnership dissolutions?” on September 17 at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
06.10.2015
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the employment effects of these policies for mothers with young children. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and exploit quasi-experimental variation ...
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Labour Economics
36 (2015), S. 84-98
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Katharina Wrohlich
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Economic policies rely on demographic projections. Yet in making these projections, researchers often ignore the aspect of household formation—despite sustained trends in many industrialized countries towards smaller household units with fewer members. Over the long term, this trend is likely to reduce the benefits of sharing goods/services within households (household economies of scale) at the micro-level, ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
67 (2015), 3, S. 760-780
| Carsten Schröder, Katrin Rehdanz, Daiju Narita, Toshihiro Okubo
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1) The book information page on our website is: http://www.e-elgar.com/shop/handbook-of-research-methods-and-applications-in-transport-economics-and-policy2) The official online ebook version will be: http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9780857937926.xmlPlease note the online version on Elgaronline may not yet be available but will be added within two weeks of publication. You can link to the whole book ...
05.10.2015
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On Monday night, 28 September, DIW president Marcel Fratzscher and the Dean of the Graduate Center Helmut Lütkepohl officially welcomed the 14 new PhD students. For the next four years they will pursue their PhD in Economics - the Graduate Center team wishes a successful start and an inspiring time at the DIW Berlin.
02.10.2015
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Big events are on the horizon in Berlin in 2016: The SOEP will be hosting or co-organizing three major international conferences — all in one week. First, from June 15‐18, there will be the 30th Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), then on June 20 and 21 the more informal Panel Survey Methods Workshop, and finally on June 22 and 23 the 12th International ...
02.10.2015
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Interview
Thorsten Schneider is a professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig. He was a research associate in the SOEP from 2000 to 2005. During this time, he also wrote his dissertation on social origins and educational outcomes, and he received his doctor’s degree from the University of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2005. To this day, his main research areas include educational sociology, comparative ...
02.10.2015
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We are happy to announce the publication of our current SOEPnewsletter 109, November 2015.
We have some interesting news about
upcoming conferences in Berlin in Summer 2016 including the Calls for Papers
a Call for Questions for the 2016 SOEP survey about refugees in Germany
a Call for Applications for scholarships at the SOEP (research regarding the minimum wage reform in Germany)
information ...
02.10.2015
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Uwe Sunde, longtime SOEP user and recently elected as deputy chairman of the SOEP Survey Committee, has been awarded the renowned Gossen Prize of the "Verein für Socialpolitik" at its annual conference. The Gossen Prize is awarded every year to honor a German-speaking economist working in central Europe, whose work has gained international renown. The aim of the award is to promote the internationalization ...
02.10.2015