DIW Berlin (together with ZBW, WZB, RWI and Lab²) is pleased to announce that registration for the “3rd Leibniz Open Science Day 2026: Scientific Rigor and Collaborative Research in the Age of AI” is now open. The event will take place on 17 November 2026 at the premises of the Leibniz Association in Berlin. This year's Open Science Day focuses on how scientific rigor, transparency, and collaborative ...
The right to be heard is a fundamental principle underlying most legal systems and constitutes a basic human right. Legal scholars argue that the right to be heard is essential for the rule of law because it helps achieving truth and legitimizes judicial sentencing. However, the labor and time-intensive nature of hearings has led to an overloaded criminal justice system, particularly for mass...
Pseudo-event studies promise to overcome the limited availability of panel data by estimating event-study effects from widely available cross-sectional data. Originally developed and increasingly used for child penalty estimation, the approach has been proposed for broader applications. We show that pseudo-event study estimates are systematically biased for both pre-trends and treatment effects...
We examine the economic geography of gender wage gaps to understand the role that location plays in gender earning differences. Using panelised administrative data for the universe of French workers, our findings indicate that women benefit relatively more from density than men, with an urban wage premium (return to urban density) 48% higher than for men. We identify a number of factors that...
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are influential in shaping policy to address the massive social harm from crime. Yet crime-prevention experiments typically ignore the possibility of peer spillovers, which could misrepresent interventions' net effects in either direction. To estimate how program effects diffuse or displace across social networks, we combine four existing RCTs in Chicago (N ~12,...
