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Research visit to Mongolia

Kati Schindler, Olaf de Groot and Uuriintuya Batsaikhan will be in West Mongolia from 20 May to 3 June to collect household panel data on Nomad Households for  the research project "Coping with climate shocks in Mongolia: Vulnerability, Assets and Migration", funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Advisory work

Antje Kröger is working as a short-term consultant in survey design and statistics for the World Bank. She is supporting the World Bank to run a household and a firm survey in Hargeisa/Somaliland and will mostly work from Nairobi and Hargeisa. She will return to DIW Berlin this fall.Tilman Brück is among the 25 selected researchers to be part of the "Voice of researchers", ...

SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

Studies in recent years show that universal child care has a beneficial impact on children‘s outcomes (e.g., Havnes/Mogstad 2009, 2011, Datta‐Gupta/Simonsen 2010, 2011). However evidence remains mixed on whether all types of day care attendance have a positive effect on children's development.  Some papers show that day care attendance can also negatively influence child...

Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France

Abstract: Using department level administrative data from 1826 to 1936 we document the evolution of crime rates in 19th century France and we estimate the impact of a negative income shock on crime. Our identification strategy exploits the phylloxera crisis. Between 1863 and 1890, phylloxera destroyed about 40% of French vineyards. Using the departmental variation in the timing of this shock we...

Inter- and Intragenerational Economic Mobility: Germany in International Comparison ; Dissertation

Bayesian Procedures as a Numerical Tool for the Estimation of Dynamic Discrete Choice Models

Dynamic discrete choice models usually require a general specification of unobserved heterogeneity. In this paper, we apply Bayesian procedures as a numerical tool for the estimation of a female labor supply model based on a sample size which is typical for common household panels. We provide two important results for the practitioner: First, for a specification with a multivariate normal distribution ...

Everything under Control? The Effects of Age, Gender, and Education on Trajectories of Perceived Control in a Nationally Representative German Sample

Perceived control is an important variable for various demands involved in successful aging. However, perceived control is not set in stone, but rather changes throughout the life course. The aim of this study was to identify cross-sectional age differences and longitudinal mean-level changes as well as rank-order changes in perceived control with respect to sex and education. Furthermore, changes ...

Employment Restrictions and Political Violence in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, Israel imposed severe restrictions on the employment of Palestinians within its borders. We study the effect of this policy change on the involvement of West Bank Palestinians in fatal confrontations during the first phase of the Intifada. Identification relies on the fact that variation in the pre-Intifada employment rate in Israel across Palestinian ...

Assessing the EU's Added Value in the Area of Terrorism Prevention and Violent Radicalisation

This paper questions the effectiveness and the prospects of EU efforts to prevent terrorism and violent radicalisation. After the terrorist of attacks of Madrid and London,, member states agreed on a comprehensive strategy to prevent radicalisation and recruitment into terrorism, but simultaneously underlined the limits of EU competences. The European Commission therefore focused on indirect measures, ...

Between Great Transformation and Politics as Usual: Formal and Informal Security Governance in EU Counterterrorism Policy

Debates about EU counterterrorism policy commonly oscillate between promises of a supranational 'great transformation' and reminders regarding the realities of intergovernmental 'politics as usual'. Yet, the paper argues that post-9/11 EU counterterrorism has come to encompass a broader set of formal and informal policies and structures that extends beyond this dichotomy. The emerging system of security ...