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Refereed essays Web of Science
Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. We argue that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies, such as wind and solar power, heat pumps and electric cars are needed.
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Communications Earth & Environment
6 (2025), 859, 5 S.
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Adeline Guéret, Alexander Roth, Felix Schmidt
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Access to information is vital to physicians who make critical treatment decisions that shape patients' lives. Although formal channels, such as professional training, medical databases, and clinical guidelines, are well-documented, little is known about informal learning, in which physicians acquire knowledge from peers or patients. In this paper, I study how patients act as carriers of clinical...
03.12.2025| Temulun Borjigen, DIW Berlin
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We show that personal experiences affect high-stakes economic decisions among inventors. Using matched patent and survey data from French and German inventors linked to natural disaster records, we exploit exogenous variation in disaster exposure. Inventors personally affected by natural disasters subsequently produce 8.2 percent more green patents, primarily driven by emission-reducing mitigation...
10.12.2025| Marten Ritterrath, University of Cologne
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Most women reduce their labor supply after childbirth. When children become older, most women spend less time on women spend less time on childcare activities. Yet, female labor supply recovers little as children age and part-time work remains common among mothers of older children. Understanding the motivation behind labor supply choices of women with older children is crucial to design effective...
17.12.2025| Mareen Bastiaans, European University Viadrina
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS
Latin America is facing rapid population aging. To address the sustainability of contributory pension systems, many countries are considering increasing the retirement age. One such case is Brazil, where a pension reform in 2019 raised the retirement age from 60 to 62 for women. While the effects of such reforms on the labor force participation of older adults and their...
28.01.2026| William Fernandez, DYNAMICS (HU Berlin + Hertie School)
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...
11.02.2026| Annica Gehlen
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Report
On December 8, 2025, DIW Berlin co-hosted the conference on the heat transition organized by the accompanying research BEWEGT on the EUREF campus. The conference brought together numerous contributions from political and social sciences and clearly showed how diverse social science research on the heating transition has become.
The focus was on questions that are crucial for the success of the heating ...
11.12.2025| Franziska Holz, Dana Kirchem, Caroline Stiel
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Age and gender differences in narcissism have been studied often. However, considering the rich history of narcissism research accompanied by its diverging conceptualizations, little is known about age and gender differences across various narcissism measures. The present study investigated age and gender differences and their interactions across eight widely used narcissism instruments (i.e., Narcissistic ...
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Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
124 (2023), 6, S. 1277–1298
| Rebekka Weidmann, William J. Chopik, Robert A. Ackerman, Marc Allroggen, Emily C. Bianchi, Courtney Brecheen, W. Keith Campbell, Tanja M. Gerlach, Katharina Geukes, Emily Grijalva, Igor Grossmann, Christopher J. Hopwood, Roos Hutteman, Sara Konrath, Albrecht C. P. Küfner, Marius Leckelt, Joshua D. Miller, Lars Penke, Aaron L. Pincus, Karl-Heinz Renner, David Richter, Brent W. Roberts, Chris G. Sibley, Leonard J. Simms, Eunike Wetzel, Aidan G. C. Wright, Mitja D. Back
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Do the processes underlying destination-language acquisition differ between recently arrived refugees and other new immigrants? Based on a well-established model of language learning according to which language fluency is a function of efficiency, incentives, and exposure, this study addresses general processes of language learning as well as conditions specific to refugees. Longitudinal data on refugees ...
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Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies
48 (2022), 5, S. 989–1012
| Yuliya Kosyakova, Cornelia Kristen, Christoph Spörlein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Recent years have seen a growing number of studies investigating the accuracy of nonprobability online panels; however, response quality in nonprobability online panels has not yet received much attention. To fill this gap, we investigate response quality in a comprehensive study of seven nonprobability online panels and three probability-based online panels with identical fieldwork periods and questionnaires ...
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Sociological Methods & Research
52 (2023), 2, S. 879–908
| Carina Cornesse, Annelies G. Blom