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Refereed essays Web of Science
We investigate how prenatal economic fluctuations affected birth weight in Argentina during the period from January 2000 to December 2005 and document its procyclicality. We find evidence that the birth weight of children born to low-educated (less than high school) mothers is sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations during both the first and third trimesters of pregnancy, while those of high-educated ...
In:
The Review of Economics and Statistics
96 (2014), 3, S. 550-562
| Carlos Bozzoli, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study how international migration changes the private transfers made between households in the migrant sending communities of developing countries. A priori, it is indeterminate whether migration and remittances strengthen or weaken the degree of private transfers in these communities. From a policy perspective, public income redistribution programs would have an important role to play if migration ...
In:
Journal of Comparative Economics
43 (2015), S. 690-705
| Tanika Chakraborty, Bakhrom Mirkasimov, Susan Steiner
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Other-regarding preferences in adults have been examined in depth in the literature. Research has shown that spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation. However, there is little evidence of the factors explaining spiteful behavior in children. We investigate the relationship between children’s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
45 (2014), S. 154-167
| Elisabeth Bügelmayer, C. Katharina Spieß
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Seminar
Abstract: How does household fertility relate to labor income uncertainty? A large literature shows how household saving reacts to income uncertainty but only few studies recognize how fertility decisions are affected. We aim to shed some light on this relationship using data from the socio-economic panel from Germany. Our preliminary results indicate that our quantitative measure of income...
05.11.2014| Davud Rostam-Afschar (FU Berlin)
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
(joint with Christian KrekelThis paper investigates the effects of wind turbines on residential well-being, using panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and a novel data set on wind turbines in Germany for the time period between 2000 and 2012. Using a Geographical Information System (GIS), it calculates the distance to wind turbines, measured as the Euclidean distance between...
05.11.2014| Alexander Zerrahn
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Berlin Seminar
We would like to invite you to the „Berlin Seminar on Energy and Climate Policy“ (BSEC) jointly with Öko Institut, PIK, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, TU-Berlin, and Ecologic Institute.
We are going to discuss a set of questions emerging from the October European Council decision on the EU 2030 climate and energy strategy, with a particular focus on implementation of measures...
10.11.2014| Wolfgang Eichhamme, Head of Energy Policy and Energy Markets, Fraunhofer-Institute Karlsruhe
Oliver Sartor, Institute for Sustainable Development and Internatioanl Relations (IDDRI), Paris
EU Commission (Speaker to be confirmed)
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DIW Discussion Papers 1417 / 2014
The surge in the German house prices starting in 2010 raised fears about the emergence of a speculative bubble. Given a local nature of housing markets, it is not clear to what extent the bubble, if any, is spread across different cities. In this paper, we test for speculative house price bubbles in 127 large German cities over the last 20 years. Along with testing bubbles for each city separately, ...
2014| Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Claus Michelsen, Dirk Ulbricht
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Externe Monographien
The dissertation fits into this empirical literature on the economic effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. The research questions are related to the arguments and issues that have been brought forward in the policy debate and that have been addressed in the economic literature on minimum wages: How would a federal minimum wage affect the distribution of gross wages? Which individuals would ...
Berlin:
Freie Univ. Berlin,
2013,
V, 279 S.
| Kai-Uwe Müller
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Based on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the Socio-economic Panel, we study the class mobility of three concurrent generations in the U.S. and Germany. We find that, in both countries, the grandfathers’ class is directly associated with their grandchildren's social position. We propose three possible mechanisms which could explain the observed multigenerational mobility patterns. First, ...
In:
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
35 (2014), S. 35-42
| Florian R. Hertel, Olaf Groh-Samberg
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Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)
BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.
03.11.2014| Professor Gerard J. van den Berg, University of Mannheim