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SOEP 2014 Conference - Deadline for registration expires

If you want to attend the SOEP 2014 Conference in Berlin (June 30 - July 1, 2014): don't forget to register!Please visit the conference Website at www.diw.de/soep2014 toget inspired by our short new video clip (conference teaser)study the scientific programm with 60 presentationsand register online (deadline is Monday, June 16, 2014)Hope to see you soon in Berlin.

SOEP Konferenz 2014

2014 - 11th Conference of the German Socio Economic Panel UsersJune 30 - July 1, 2014Venue: DIW BerlinHertie School of Governance

"Citizen Science" auf Basis des SOEP: Entwicklung und erste Anwendung eines Software-Tools für "Bürgerdialoge"

Up to now in the social sciences, what is known as citizen science—the involvement of interested citizens in scientific surveys—has been used relatively little as a method of empirical social research. While the “citizens’ dialogues” that are becoming more widespread in politics can be considered a kind of social scientific citizen science, the participants in these dialogues are not selected randomly ...

Teenage Pregnancies and Birth in Germany: Patterns and Developments

We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the German case. We find that teenage fertility is associated with teenage age and education, with the income ...

Weak Inflation and Threat of Deflation in the Euro Area: Limits of Conventional Monetary Policy

by Kerstin Bernoth, Marcel Fratzscher, Philipp König in: DIW Economic Bulletin 5/2014Inflation in the euro area has been below the European Central Bank's target for almost a year now and it is also expected to remain at a very low level in the near future. On the one hand, such a low level of inflation is not in line with the ECB's objective. On the other hand, there is the risk that this situation ...

Persistently High Wealth Inequality in Germany

According to current analyses based on the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the total net assets of German households in 2012 amounted to 6.3 trillion euros. Almost 28 percent of the adult population had no or even negative net wealth. On average, individual net assets in 2012 totaled over 83,000 euros, slightly more than ten years previously. The degree of wealth inequality also remained virtually ...

Unemployed Have Considerably Fewer Assets Than Ten Years Ago: Eight Questions to Markus M. Grabka

Pitfalls of Compound Interest Effect: Private Investors Underestimate Loss Risks of Financial Products

People are investing their life savings in financial products, for instance, to provide for their retirement, and in doing so they are making their future financial situation almost entirely dependent on the success of these investments. The financial sector promotes numerous investment opportunities with widely varying levels of risk - from the classic private pension insurance to high-risk equity ...

How Do Insured Deposits Affect Bank Risk? Evidence from the 2008 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

This paper tests whether an increase in insured deposits causes banks to become more risky. We use variation introduced by the U.S. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in October 2008, which increased the deposit insurance coverage from $100,000 to $250,000 per depositor and bank. For some banks, the amount of insured deposits increased significantly; for others, it was a minor change. Our analysis ...

Demographische Alterung und politische Machtverhältnisse

Since election results routinely show that elderly people are especially prone to cast their votes for the German Conservatives and do hardly sympathize with the Greens, the question arises: Does the ageing of the electorate go along with an increasing asymmetry of electoral chances? The article examines whether the electoral success of the Conservatives in the elderly population stems from a long-standing ...