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Moving to diversity: residential mobility, changes in ethnic diversity and concerns about immigration

Studies on ethnic diversity and social cohesion are predominantly crosssectional and assume linearity, i.e. a steady, constant decline of social capital as ethnic diversity increases. Relying on longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and applying a differences-in-differences design, the paper investigates how the event of moving to a more or less diverse neighbourhood affects...

Early Retirement and Youth Employment in Norway

Abstract: This paper studies the short term and micro level effects of the number of jobs released through early retirement on labour market outcomes for young potential entrants. Causal estimates of old-young substitution effects in local labour markets are obtained by means of instrumental variable estimation, exploiting a unique administrative data set covering the entire population of Norway...

Managerial Incentives in Public Service Delivery: Evidence from School-Based Nutrition Programs in Rural China

BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

IMF World Economic Outlook October 2013

Presentation: Jörg Decressin, Senior Advisor of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)Chair: Prof. Marcel Fratzscher, Ph.D., President of DIW BerlinThe World Economic Outlook (WEO) discusses the growth and inflation prospects for the advanced economies, the consequences for their monetary policies, and the repercussions for capital flows to and activity in the emerging economies. It analyzes...

Media Bias and Competition in China

BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

Friederike Lenel granted FES scholarship

Friederike Lenel has been granted a scholarship from the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) from October 2013 on. The Dean of the GC, Prof. Lütkepohl, congratulates her on her success!

SOEP 2010 - Preparation of Data from the New SOEP Consumption Module: Editing, Imputation, and Smoothing

SOEP 2012 - Codebook for the $PEQUIV File 1984-2012: CNEF Variables with Extended Income Information for the SOEP

Publishing in Journals and Writing Abstracts

The course is designed to make the world of academic journals, especially high impact journals, more transparent and to help the participants to avoid common pitfalls of scientific writing. Moreover, you will learn how to write good abstracts that make editors become interested in your work. Topics covered will include: An inside perspective of the decision making process in journals How editors...

Structural Production Function Estimation

Part I: Thursday October 31,14h-16h Introduction Production function estimation - Base Model (Olley and Pakes; Ecta, 1996) Part II: Thursday October 31,16h-18h Production function estimation - Extension I (Levinsohn and Petrin, REStud, 2003) Part III: Friday, November 1, 9h-11hProduction function estimation - Extension II (Ackerberg, Caves, and Frazer, 2006 & Wooldridge, Eco. Letters, 2011)...