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New doctoral candidate at the SOEP: Sandra Bohmann

The SOEP welcomes Sandra Bohmann, who joined the SOEP team in mid-February as a doctoral student. After completing a degree in European Business Studies at the University of Applied Sciences Regensburg and a BA in International Business Management at Oxford Brookes University, she shifted her focus slightly and completed an MA in Philosophy and Economics at the University of Bayreuth. Her thesis was ...

2015 SOEPprize

The selection process is currently underway for the next SOEPprize (official name: the VdF Best Publication Prize) for publications based on the SOEP data. Two years ago we made some changes in the decision-making process for the award, and now the final decision rests with the SOEP Survey Committee. The selection process is also no longer based solely on nominations but on all publications submitted ...

Award goes to dissertation using SOEP data

The Economics of Education Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik, one of the largest professional economics associations in Europe, awarded its 2013/14 Best Dissertation Prize in the Economics of Education for a dissertation that was based in large part on SOEP data. Pia Pinger received the prize for her dissertation “Essays on Skills, Health and Human Inequality” submitted to ...

SOEP People: Five questions to Elke Holst

Elke Holst has been Research Director of Gender Studies at DIW Berlin since 2010; her position became part of the DIW Berlin Executive Board in 2012. According to the F.A.Z. ranking, Holst is considered one of Germany’s most influential economists. Elke Holst was a Senior Economist in the SOEP from 1990 to 2012. Her research in the SOEP focused primarily on gender gap on the labor market. We ...

Fifth SOEP-identical survey of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) completed

The fifth wave of the Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II), which used the SOEP questionnaire, surveyed 2,232 individuals in 1,536 households. The BASE-II sample was recruited successively and is now complete. There are five waves of BASE-II survey data available for 86 respondents; four waves for 51 respondents; three waves for 913 respondents; two waves for 1,028 respondents; and one wave for 1,236 respondents. ...

SOEP questionnaire 2016

Fieldwork for the 32nd wave of the SOEP survey is underway, and we would like to inform all our users—in particular longtime SOEP users—about our plans for survey content and special modules in 2016. In line with the “SOEP replication schedule”, which defines when and how often the various modules are repeated, we plan to repeat most of the in-depth questions from 2015 on introduction ...

Quecksilberausstoß aus Kohlekraftwerken - Bestandsaufnahme und mögliche Konsequenzen

Neben den globalen Umweltexternalitäten von Kohlekraftwerken durch Kohlendioxid entstehen bei der Kohleverstromung weitere Umwelteffekte, u.a. durch Stickoxide, Feinstaub und Quecksilber. Aufgrund der starken Toxizität von Quecksilber sowie komplexen Mess- und Bewertungsverfahren steht die Regulierung von Quecksilberemissionen derzeit im Mittelpunkt regionaler, nationaler und europä...

The Market Stability Reserve: Is Europe Serious about the Energy Union?

The European Union Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS) has been implemented to provide a common climate policy instrument across European Union countries, to contribute to a credible investment perspective for low-carbon investors and support further European integration of energy markets. Thus the EU ETS is a key element of the European Energy Union.However, given the accumulation of a large surplus ...

Unchartered Territory: Large-Scale Asset Purchases by the European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) decided at its Council meeting in January to implement a comprehensive program to purchase bonds, including euro area government bonds. The purchases are intended to anchor the rate of inflation and inflation expectations at below but close to two percent again. Given the lack of experience with this unconventional monetary policy instrument, the ECB is venturing into ...

ECB Bond Purchases: No Panacea for Deflation: Seven Questions to Kerstin Bernoth and Philipp König