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The Berlin-based "DIW-OECD industrial strategy dialogues" event series was launchend on December 8. It provides a platform for dialogue between key stakeholders from policy, business, society, and academia to discuss cutting-edge research and which industrial strategies can work for Germany, Europe and their global partners to address the major challenges of our time. Successful industrial strategies ...
09.12.2025| Tomaso Duso
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Questions on justice of earnings are regularly fielded in large-scale surveys but insights intothe role of response formats on measures of the justice of earnings are missing. This problem isillustrated by the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), which, in 2017, changed its question onthe justice of one’s own earnings from a binary response scale to an 11-point scale. Meanwhile, the shareof respondents ...
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Survey Methods : Insights from the Field
(2022), 10 S.
| Jule Adriaans, Philipp Eisnecker, Carsten Sauer, Peter Valet
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Background: Individuals who are socioeconomically disadvantaged are at increased risk for aging-related diseases and perform less well on tests of cognitive function. The weathering hypothesis proposes that these disparities in physical and cognitive health arise from an acceleration of biological processes of aging. Theories of how life adversity is biologically embedded identify epigenetic alterations, ...
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Clinical Epigenetics
15 (2023), 70, 9 S.
| L. Raffington, T. Schwaba, M. Aikins, David Richter, Gert G. Wagner, K. P. Harden, D. W. Belsky, E. M. Tucker-Drob
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At the 2025 European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, which took place from December 7 to 9 in Nicosia, Cyprus, Lavina Kinne and Virginia Sondergeld were awarded the Best Paper Prize. The award-winning project by the two authors is entitled: “Meet my family: women in leadership and gender stereotypes in the media.”
We congratulate them on this great success!
In their study, the two ...
08.12.2025| Lavinia Kinne
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Personnel news
Jonas Hannane received the “Best Paper Award for Junior Scholars” from Faculty VII at TU Berlin for his article “Who Is AI Replacing? The Impact of Generative AI on Online Freelancing Platforms”, published in the journal Management Science in 2025. Congratulations!
Jonas was a GC/BSE PhD researcher in the Firms and Markets Department. The award-winning paper was part of his dissertation.
02.12.2025
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Comparisons are crucial in shaping evaluations of one’s own position. Following this notion, we investigated the role of historical, financial, partner, occupational, and regional pay referents in predicting the just gross hourly earnings in a representative sample of German workers. Looking at this broad range of pay referents, we find that higher reference earnings were generally associated with ...
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European Sociological Review
40 (2024), 1, S. 129–142
| Philipp Simon Eisnecker, Jule Adriaans
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Divorce marks the legal endpoint of a marital union. While divorce is increasingly seen as a ‘clean break’, the past marital history of the couple may nevertheless shape their present conditions. In particular, there may be a legacy of a highly gendered division of labour during marriage that may affect the ex-spouses’ earning trajectories beyond the date of divorce. Using register data from the German ...
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Population Research and Policy Review
42 (2023), 23, 34 S.
| Daniel Brüggmann, Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This replication revisits an influential contribution on the intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes, which, based on data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), reveals a positive correlation between parents' and children's attitudes. The authors of the original study argue that socialization in the family is important in the transmission process. The replication is motivated ...
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Social Science Research
119 (2024), 102982, 21 S.
| Christoph Spörlein, Cornelia Kristen, Regine Schmidt
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Refereed essays Web of Science
While almost all charities rely on a set of donor appreciation strategies, their effectiveness for the success of fundraising campaigns is underresearched. Through two preregistered field studies conducted in collaboration with a leading German opera house (N = 10,000), we explore the significance of expressing gratitude and examine two different approaches to doing so. Our first study investigates ...
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Experimental Economics
28 (2025), 4, S. 900–909
| Maja Adena, Steffen Huck, Levent Neyse
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Externe Working Papers
We analyze how machine learning predictions may improve antibiotic prescribing in the context of the global health policy challenge of increasing antibiotic resistance. Estimating a binary antibiotic treatment choice model, we find variation in the skill to diagnose bacterial urinary tract infections and in how general practitioners trade off the expected cost of resistance against antibiotic curative ...
Berlin:
Berlin School of Economics,
2023,
51 S.
(Berlin School of Economics Discussion Papers ; 0027)
| Michael Allan Ribers, Hannes Ullrich