Since mid-November, Florin Winter has been temporarily replacing Denise Saßenroth in the BASE II project during her maternity leave. He completed his master’s degree in social sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin this summer. In his master’s thesis “Möglichkeiten und Beiträge kollektiver gesellschaftlicher Akteure zum Schutz der Umwelt: Auswirkungen ...
Carsten Schröder has been offered an appointment (W3-Professur) in the Department of Economics at the Freie Universität Berlin as “Professor of Economics, with a focus on Empirical Economic Research” in conjunction with a position as Head of the Applied Panel Analysis area in the SOEP at DIW Berlin. Carsten obtained his doctorate at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel. ...
The SOEPnewsletter 103/ January 2014 is now available. We inform about the new SOEP dataset v29Families in Germany (FiD)the new studies PIACC-L and SOEP-ECEC News from Cornell and Ohio State University SOEP 2014 call for papersSOEP activities on happiness research in 2013SOEP SymposiumSOEPcampus@DIW Berlin 2014 1,000th SOEP-based publication in an (S)SCI Journal... and a lot more.
The DIW Berlin has raised the importance and visibility of gender research at DIW Berlin by making Gender Studies part of the Department of the Executive Board. No other member institute of the Leibniz Association in Germany has yet undertaken a similar initiative. To strengthen this research area further, the DIW has also announced a postdoctoral position opening in gender research. Gender Studies ...
In 2013, twelve doctoral students from the Graduate Center have successfully finished their study. Ten of them attended the Graduation Ceremony on December 13 in the Schumpeter Hall, together with DIW colleagues, thesis supervisors, friends and family members. The Celebration was accompanied with a violin concert by Benedikt Bindewald and Maria Jadziewicz. The DIW executive board handed over the graduation ...
With this year's data distribution, SOEP v29, the data now again are being provided in both the normal and "long" format (SOEP v29). "SOEPlong" is a highly compressed, easily analyzed version of the SOEP data that, according to numerous enthusiastic users, is much simpler to handle than the usual version. The data are no longer provided as wave-specific individual files but rather ...
