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  • May 23, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Changes in the Patterns of Poverty Duration in Germany Over 1992-2010*
    Changes in the Patterns of Poverty Duration in Germany Over 1992-2010*

    Speaker: Iryna Kyzyma (CEPS/INSTEAD, BIGSSS)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    Despite the introduction of major social policy reforms, since the mid-1980s Germany has been experiencing a steady increase in poverty rates among general population. It gave a boost to a great number of studies trying to explain why it happened. By applying decomposition techniques they have been exploring what kind of changes in household structures and labor market conditions of households ...

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  • May 23, 2012

    Seminar

    In absolute or relative terms? How framing prices affects the consumer price sensitivity of health plan choice
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Nicolas R. Ziebarth (Cornell University)
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract:This paper provides field evidence on (a) how price framing affects consumers' decision to switch health insurance plans and (b) how the price elasticity of demand for health insurance can be influenced by policymakers through simple regulatory efforts. In 2009, in order to foster competition among health insurance companies, German federal regulation required health insurance companies ...

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  • May 16, 2012

    Seminar

    Stealing to Survive: Crime and Income Shocks in 19th Century France
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Roberto Galbiati (CNRS Paris)
    Location: Freie Universität Berlin
    Raum 202 (Kaminzimmer)
    Boltzmannstr. 20
    14195 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    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 ...

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  • May 16, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Day care (quality) and differences in child outcomes
    Day care (quality) and differences in child outcomes

    Speaker: Frauke Peter
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    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 ...

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  • May 15, 2012

    Berlin Lunchtime Meeting

    The Future of Natural Gas in the "Energiewende" -
    Pipelines, Supply Security, and Fuel Mix in Germany and Europe

    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00 - 13:00

    Presenter: Dr. Jeff Makholm, Boston, USA, leads the Natural Gas Practice at National Energy Research Associates (NERA), he is a world-known expert in the natural gas sector and pipeline regulation in particular, and has advised industry and governments in the US, Asia, and Europe. Makholm is also author of a recent book "The Political Economy of Pipelines", University of Chicago Press (2 ...

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  • May 14, 2012

    Event

    Prof. Dr. Gunter Stephan presents: Technology Transfer and Climate Change - Puzzle or Paradox

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gunter Stephan, Universität Bern Further information: http://www.vwl.unibe.ch/staff/index_ger.html?Nr=39
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 14:00-15:00

    AbstractThis presentation deals with a simple, but nonetheless important question: Is it possible to combat with the challenge of global climate change through innovation and technology transfer even without a global treaty? Or do carbon leakage and the rebound-effect imply that it is possible to take advantage of technological improvements under the umbrella of a global arrangement only? ...

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  • May 11, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Aggregation without the aggravation? Nonparametric analysis of the representative consumer

    Speaker: Frederic Vermeulen, Tilburg University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract: In the tradition of Afriat (1967), Diewert (1973) and Varian (1982), we provide a revealed preference characterisation of the representative consumer. Our results are simple and complement those of Gorman (1953, 1961), Samuelson (1956) and others. They can also be applied to data very readily and without the need for auxilliary parametric or statistical assumptions. We investigate the ...

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  • May 11, 2012

    Seminar

    Supply side responses to demand reductions in fossil fuel markets

    Speaker: Knut Einar Rosendahl Weitere Informationen: http://www.ssb.no/english/research/people/ker/index.html
    Location: Technische Universität Berlin
    Hauptgebäude, 3. OG, H3143
    Straße des 17. Juni 135
    10623 Berlin
    Time: 10:00-12:00

    Knut Einar Rosendahl from Statistics Norway is a well-renowned economist and researcher on international energy resource markets and climate economics. Since the 1990s he has contributed significantly to the modeling literature of natural gas and crude oil markets. More recently, he has focused on the economic analysis of climate change and climate policy. His talk will present a combination ...

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  • May 10 - 11, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Introduction to Matching and Weighting Estimators

    Speaker: Marco Caliendo, Potsdam University
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: Do 14:00-18:30/Fr 09:30-12:30

    Masterclasses are a series of one- or two day courses on various topics in Economics, organized by the DIW Graduate Center. The target audience consists of graduate students in Economics at Berlin universities and research institutes. The GC Masterclasses are held on an irregular basis at DIW Berlin (about once a month) and are open to all affiliates of DIW Berlin, those of the BDPEMS program, and ...

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  • May 10 - 11, 2012

    Conference

    Micro-Level Analysis of Well-Being in Central Asia

    The transition from a planned to a market economy has had dramatic consequences in all post-Soviet republics but especially so in Central Asia. Twenty years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, we wish to examine the well-being of individuals and households in these countries.We aim at bringing together researchers from several disciplines, especially economics, sociology, geography, and ...

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  • May 9, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The Generalized Roy Model and The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Social Programs

    Speaker: Philipp Eisenhauer (ZEW Mannheim)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:30-17:30

    The standard analysis of treatment effects only considers the gross benefit of treatment and does not consider the cost as perceived by the agents or the surplus arising from participation in programs (the private subjective evaluation of the program). This paper extends the analysis of Heckman and Vytlacil (1999, 2005) to identify parameters measuring the costs and net gains of arising from ...

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  • May 9, 2012

    Seminar

    The effect of unemployment on the mental health of spouses - Evidence from plant closures in Germany
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Jan Marcus
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30-8.00 pm

    Abstract:Previous studies on the health effects of unemployment neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study estimates the effect of one spouse's unemployment on the mental health of the other spouse. In order to give the estimates a causal interpretation, this study focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (plant closure), and combines matching based on entropy balancing and difference ...

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  • May 4, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    Subjective Beliefs as Determinants of Fiscal Policy: Survey Evidence from German Politicians

    Speaker: Eckhard Janeba, University of Mannheim
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    Abstract This talk gives an overview about the use of original surveys conducted among German politicians for the study of fiscal policy. The first study (Heinemann and Janeba, German Economic Review, 2011) uses a survey of members of the German Bundestag to understand the politicians’ subjective beliefs about the role of taxes for business  location decisions. It is shown that ideology ...

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  • May 3, 2012

    Berlin Seminar

    Bundesfachplanung Netzausbau in Deutschland und Europa – Wo geht die Reise hin?

    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    Presentations: Günter Stark, ABB AG: Hochspannungsnetzausbau in Deutschland: The challenge of combining technical forecast and longer term energy system planning Peter Barth, Amprion: Transportnetz der Zukunft: langfristig und europäisch denken? Barbie Kornelia Haller, Bundesnetzagentur: Netzentwicklungsplan Strom - Wo wir stehen, was wir wollen... Aspekte eines Groß ...

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  • May 3, 2012

    Seminar

    The Good, the Bad and the Naive: Do good experts choose fair prices or do fair prices induce good behaviour

    Speaker: Uwe Dulleck, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • May 2, 2012

    Seminar

    Quality Upgrading and Price Heterogeneity: Evidence from Brazilian Exporters
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Lisandra Flach, University of Mannheim
    Location: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin
    Raum B002/3
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin

    Abstract:This paper studies the relation between quality upgrading and pricing across firms and destination countries. The paper builds a model based on heterogeneous firms that set quality and prices to heterogeneous consumers. To test the predictions of this model, the paper uses a uniquely rich data that combines producer quality information and exporter prices by firm and destination country. ...

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  • May 2, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: It’s the Economy, Stupid: A Context-based Theory of Civic and
    Political Participation in Germany
    It’s the Economy, Stupid: A Context-based Theory of Civic and Political Participation in Germany

    Speaker: Lindsay M. Pettingill (Georgetown University)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    There has been a recent shift in Political Science towards integratingaggregate-level contextual factors into the study of individual-levelpolitical behaviors. while intriguing, findings are inconsistent andthis research area is bereft of theoretical underpinnings. Theunderlying idea that drives my dissertation is that civic andpolitical participation are, at least partially, a response toeconomic ...

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  • April 26, 2012

    Workshop

    Methods to Estimate the Gross Employment Effects of Environmental Protection

    Location: Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.001
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 10:00 - 17:00

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  • April 23 - 24, 2012

    Seminar

    Dealing with Selection on Unobservables
    Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarkt (BeNA) Lecture Series 2012

    Speaker: Prof. Joseph Altonji (Yale University)
    Location: Hertie School of Governance
    Raum: Forum A
    Friedrichstr. 180
    10117 Berlin

    We are happy to announce that on April 23rd and 24th, Joseph Altonji will hold three lectures and one research talk as part of the 2012 Lecture Series of the Berlin Network of Labour Market Research (BeNA). Dates and Time 10-12am2-4pmMonday, April 23first lecturesecond lecture Tuesday, April 24third lectureResearch talkThe lectures and the research talk will be given in English, are free of ...

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  • April 23 - 27, 2012

    Workshop

    TAMNEAC Training Camp

    Location: Economic Policy Research Centre
    Kampala
    Uganda

    The consortium of the Training and Mobility Network for the Economic Analysis of Conflict (TAMNEAC) will hold its second project meeting in Kampala, Uganda on 23-28 April 2012. The Training Camp will take place in cooperation with Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).

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