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Refereed essays Web of Science
Early literacy and numeracy activities in family and preschool are considered important for promoting children’s early literacy and numeracy skills. However, little research exists, especially in Germany, on the frequency of such activities in different contexts. The current study identified patterns of literacy and numeracy activities in preschools and their relation to structural preschool characteristics ...
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Research Papers in Education
29 (2014), 5, S. 577-597
| Simone Lehrl, Wilfried Smidt, Christiane Grosse, David Richter
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DIW Discussion Papers 1415 / 2014
In January 2013 the interurban passenger transport market in Germany was liberalized and several coach carriers emerged offering an alternative to the Deutsche Bahn, a state owned rail monopoly. The coach carriers have attempted to position themselves not just through lower prices but also through product differentiation, for example marketing their services as the most ecological way to travel. Hence, ...
2014| Francisco J. Bahamonde-Birke, Uwe Kunert, Heike Link, Juan de Dios Ortúzar
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DIW Discussion Papers 1416 / 2014
Deviations of policy interest rates from the levels implied by the Taylor rule have been persistent before the financial crisis and increased especially after the turn of the century. Compared to the Taylor benchmark, policy rates were often too low. This paper provides evidence that both international spillovers, for instance international dependencies in the interest rate setting of central banks, ...
2014| Joscha Beckmann, Ansgar Belke, Christian Dreger
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Event
INFRATRAIN is a series of events in INFRAstructure research and policy TRAINing designed for graduate scholars, practitioners, and policy makers. They are designed to promote the training of graduate scholars (advanced Master students, PhD-students, post-docs) as well as junior practitioners and policy makers (from ministries, regulatory agencies, and the private sector). Training Sessions include...
06.10.2014
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Event
This panel iscussion is co-organized by the Slovak Presidency of the Visegrad Group and three think tanks: the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Bratislava-based CEPI and the Warsaw-based demosEUROPA. Welcome RemarksProf. Marcel Fratzscher, PhD., President of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) Panel Discussion Peter Javorèík, State...
10.10.2014
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Event
The Lecture Series is named after the remarkable German-American statistician Hermann Otto Hartley (known as HOH). Born H.O. Hirschfeld, he completed his PhD in mathematics at the University of Berlin in 1934. Shortly thereafter, he who was of Jewish descent, emigrated to England where he also changed his name a few years later. He worked at Cambridge, Schofield, and University College London. He...
20.10.2014| Stephen J. Redding, Princeton University
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Event
Gender Studies at DIW Berlin and the project group Demography and Inequalityat the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Humboldt-University Berlin cordially invite you to the lecture: Politics and Work Family Policies in the United States: Stalemate, Gender, Race and Class?Lecture:Ariane Hegewisch | Study Director at the Institut for Women´s Policy Research (IWPR), Washington D.C...
17.11.2014
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Report
On September 29/30, the DIW Graduate Center welcomed its new cohort through various events. Fourteen promising young students introduced themselves at the welcome reception in the evening of September 29, following the opening speeches of Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, president of DIW Berlin, and Prof. Helmut Lütkepohl, Dean of the GC. On September 30, a detailed introduction to the doctoral program ...
01.10.2014
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Video
This interdisciplinary ISQOLS 2014 conference was hosted at the Free University in Berlin, Germany in conjunction with the departments of psychology, sociology, and economics and in cooperation with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) on September 15-18, 2014.
More details about the topics, sessions, fees, and publication opportunities are available at www.isqols.org...
01.10.2014| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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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.
06.10.2014| Johannes Rincke, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg