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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
The newspaper coverage of CEOs is highly gendered with more family-related language used in newspaper articles on female than male company leaders. In a randomized online experiment, we ask whether this stereotypical representation affects readers' beliefs about CEO competence, firm performance, and resulting financial decision-making. We show participants articles consisting of elements from real...
23.10.2024| Lavinia Kinne and Virginia Sondergeld
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Report
The application portal for the doctoral program of the DIW Graduate Center is now open!
Graduates can apply until January 15, 2025 for the 2025 cohort (start: October 2025). The program offers structured doctoral training with a full scholarship in the first year and employment in a department in subsequent years. Applicants should have a Master's degree in economics or related subjects.
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15.10.2024| Laura Starck
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
The study uses a synthetic control method to estimate the local economic cost of Brexit. The vast majority of regions in the UK have lost as a result of Brexit. Since losses tend to be concentrated in relatively prosperous regions, Brexit has reduced regional inequalities (“levelling up“) while pushing down national output (“levelling down“ in the aggregate). Using both aggregate data from local...
08.01.2025| Jacob Edenhofer, University of Oxford/Nuffield College
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
This study explores the responsiveness of climate policy preferences and individual behaviors to variations in beliefs about climate change impacts. Using an information provision experiment embedded within the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we analyze how updated beliefs influence pro-environmental engagement and whether these effects persist over time. By linking experimental data with rich...
22.01.2025| Sven Hartmann, Trier University
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Item nonresponse is a common issue in surveys. We implement an experiment to reduce nonresponse to income questions in an international household survey, looking at four different countries. Survey respondents are asked to report their exact household income. We randomize those who refuse to answer into two groups. In a follow-up question, the control group is asked to choose their income from a...
05.02.2025| Melanie Koch, Oesterreichische Nationalbank
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DIW Weekly Report 45 / 2024
In 2023, heating energy prices increased by substantial 31 percent compared to the previous year, following a 33 percent increase already seen in 2022. Calculations based on data from the energy service provider ista show average price increases were the highest in the German state of Rhineland- Palatinate, and the lowest in Hamburg. Owing to these price hikes and ongoing energy-saving efforts, the ...
2024| Sophie M. Behr, Till Köveker, Merve Küçük
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Publication
“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data
The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).
The ...
06.11.2024| Verena Neumann
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Seminar
In this seminar, a paper is presented that develops a framework for the representation of material flows in competitive equilibrium. Material balances track material flows which adjust endogenously to economic transactions. Negative environmental effects of resource extraction and waste deposition are assumed and it is shown that taxing resource extraction restores efficiency. Taxing waste only...
06.12.2024| Reyer Gerlagh
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Seminar
We combine theoretical and numerical analysis to derive optimal combinations of output-based allocation of emissions allowances and consumption taxes, where ‘optimal’ means from a global or regional welfare perspective. A key analytical finding is that output-based allocation of emissions allowances and consumption taxes are complements rather than substitutes. A key numerical finding is that the...
13.12.2024| Knut Einar Rosendahl (NMBU)
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Disruptions of labor market trajectories have lasting effects on later economic success. Displacement due to forced labor conscription is a disruption that remains understudied despite its continued prevalence in contemporary contexts. I investigate the consequences of exposure to forced labor conscription for individuals' long-term labor market outcomes. I exploit the fact that cohorts of Dutch...
06.11.2024| Carola Stapper, University of Cologne