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  • September 24 - 26, 2012

    SOEPcampus

    SOEPcampus at datalab2012@Uni-Bielefeld
    "Analysepotentiale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten - Längsschnittliche und kontextbezogene Daten"

    Location: Universität Bielefeld

    This year's SOEPcampus at datalab 2012@Universität Bielefeld "Analysepotentiale sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungsdaten - Längsschnittliche und kontextbezogene Daten" will take place from September 24-26 (the workshop will be held in German).

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  • September 20, 2012

    Berlin Lunchtime Meeting

    Klimapolitik und Technologietransfer: Hoffnung, Bedrohung oder Sackgasse?

    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 11:00 Uhr

    Vortrag: Prof. Gunter Stephan, Ph.D., Universität Bern | NCCR Climate | Oeschger Center of Climate Research (OCCR)Kommentar: Monika Griefahn, Geschäftsführerin der Monika Griefahn GmbH | Institut für Medien Umwelt KulturModeration: Prof. Dr. Claudia Kemfert, DIW BerlinNach den bisherigen, wenig hoffnungsvollen internationalen Klimapolitikverhandlungen setzen viele darauf, ...

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  • September 20 - 21, 2012

    Graduate Center Masterclasses

    Bayesian Methods for Empirical Macroeconomics

    Speaker: Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 20.9.2012 14:00-18:00/21.9.2012 09:00-12:30

    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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  • September 19, 2012

    Workshop

    Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop

    Location: WZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
    Reichpietschufer 50
    10785 Berlin
    Time: 10:00 - 17:15

    The Berlin Behavioral Economics Workshop is a half-year joint event between the DIW, ESMT, WZB, and TU Berlin with the aim of fostering the exchange between active researchers in the areas of behavioral and experimental economics. The 2012 workshop is jointly organized by Dorothea Kübler (WZB), Steffen Huck (WZB and UCL), Paul Heidhues (ESMT), Frank Heinemann (TU), Georg Weizsäcker (DIW ...

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  • September 17 - 18, 2012

    Conference

    Intra-European Imbalances, Global Imbalances, International Banking, and International Financial Stability

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

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  • August 8, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Number of siblings, birth order and maternal investments in preschool children: Resource dilution or resource augmentation?
    Number of siblings, birth order and maternal investments in preschool children: Resource dilution or resource augmentation?

    Speaker: Magdalena Osmanowski and Andrés Cardona (Universität Bielefeld)
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This study aims to explore the relationship between sibling number, birth order and maternal time investments in preschool children. Using the GSOEP and "Familien in Deutschland", we investigate maternal time investments in children aged 2-3 and 5-6. The dependent variables consist of two dimensions extracted from the mother's self-reported frequencies in various activities with ...

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  • July 25, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: The new SOEP data file BIOSIB
    The new SOEP data file BIOSIB

    Speaker: Daniel D. Schnitzlein
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:00

    Daniel D. Schnitzlein will present and open the discussion on the new SOEP data file BIOSIB (containing among others sibling pointers).The presentation will be held in German.

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  • July 18, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    Wage Mobility in East and West Germany

    Speaker: Prof. Dr. Regina T. Riphahn (LMU Munich), Daniel D. Schnitzlein
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30 - 13:30

    This article studies long run patterns and explanations of wage mobility as a characteristic of regional labor markets. Using German administrative data we describe wage mobility since 1975 in West and since 1992 in East Germany. Wage mobility declined substantially in East Germany in the 1990s and moderately in East and West Germany since the late 1990s. Therefore, wage mobility does not balance ...

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  • July 12, 2012

    Seminar

    Reducing over-reaction to central bank's disclosures: theory and experiment

    Speaker: Camille Cornand, CNRS France
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • July 11, 2012

    Workshop

    The role, state and future development of EU ETS

    Location: KOBiZE
    4th floor, conference room
    Chmielna St. 132/134
    Warschau
    Poland
    Time: 10:30 bis 17:30

    Presentations:Will Blyth, Oxford Enery Associates: Role of Carbon Price for InvestmentRalf Martin, Imperial College/LSE: Impact of EU ETS on Capturing Awereness, Strategic Choices, Project ImplementationChris Beauman, EBRD: Experience in Steel Sector - and the Role of Complementing Policy SupportDaria Kulczycka, PKPP Lewiatan: EU ETS: Success or FailureAnne Schopp, DIW: Current SituationRobert ...

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  • July 11, 2012

    Seminar

    Shaping Right-Wing Extremist Preferences: An Intergenerational Approach
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Alexandra Avdeenko
    Location: Berliner Büro des RWI
    Hessische Straße 10
    10115 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Are parents' attitudes towards extreme parties and immigration decisive for their children's attitudes later in life? This paper studies the magnitude of an intergenerational transmission in right-wing extremist attitudes and concerns about immigration to Germany. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, the estimates suggest that the strongest and most important ...

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  • July 6, 2012

    DIW Applied Micro Seminar

    The Causal Effect of Education on Health: What is the Role of Health Behaviors?

    Speaker: Rudolf Winter-Ebmer, University of Linz, Austria
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 13:15-14:45

    The seminar serves as a forum for discussing current research projects by researchers from universities and research institutes in Germany and around the world. The focus of the presented work is typically on applied microeconomics or applied microeconometrics. Time: Friday, 13.15 - 14.30 (time subject to variation) Please note that DIW Applied Micro Seminar will take place online during the ...

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  • July 6, 2012

    Berlin Seminar

    Pricing Carbon - Tackling the Deficit and Enabling Growth?

    Speaker: John Ward, Vivid Economics
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin

    A recent study by Vivid Economics on "Carbon taxation and fiscal consolidation in Europe" analyses the macro-economic impacts of different taxes in tackling the fiscal deficit. The study shows that carbon pricing is less detrimental than other tax options, as it encourages the substitution of fuel imports with local investment. Building on experience with the implementation of emissions ...

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  • July 5, 2012

    Seminar

    An Experimental Study of Precautionary Bidding

    Speaker: Martin Kocher, LMU München
    Location: Schumpeter Saal
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 16:15-17:45

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  • July 4, 2012

    Cluster-Seminar Public Finances and Living Conditions

    The treatment effect of attending a high-quality school and the influence of unobservables

    Speaker: Johanna Storck, Ronny Freier
    Location: Eleanor-Dulles-Raum
    DIW Berlin im Quartier 110
    Room 5.2.010
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:30-13:30

    This paper studies the effect of attending a high-quality middle school on subsequent educational outcomes. The analysis is based on data from the German socio-economic household panel in which we observe children when they make their secondary school decisions (in the age between 10-12) and later when they self-report on their intentions with regard to their further educational pathway (in ...

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  • July 4, 2012

    Seminar

    Wage Discrimination Over the Business Cycle
    Leibniz Seminar für Arbeitsmarktforschung (BeNA)

    Speaker: Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas)
    Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Room 125
    Spandauer Str. 1
    10178 Berlin
    Time: 6.30 - 8.00 pm

    Abstract: Using CPS data from 1979-2009 we examine how cyclical downturns and industry-specific demand shocks affect wage differentials between white non-Hispanic men and women, Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites, and African-Americans and non-Hispanic whites. Women's relative earnings are harmed by negative shocks; the wage disadvantage of African-Americans drops with negative shocks, which have ...

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  • June 28 - 29, 2012

    International SOEP User Conference

    10th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference - SOEP2012
    SOEP2012

    Speaker: Shelly Lundberg, Leonard Broom Endowed Chair in Demography at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway Janet Gornick, Director of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)

    The 10th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP2012) will be held in Berlin, June 28-29, 2012 at DIW Berlin & Hertie-School of Governance and at the Headquarter of the Leibniz Association (WGL). The conference provides researchers who use the SOEP with the opportunity to present and discuss their work with other researchers familiar with SOEP data. Researchers for all ...

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  • June 26, 2012

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar

    SOEP Brown Bag Seminar: Data preparation of the new SOEP consumption module - Editing, imputation and smoothing
    Data preparation of the new SOEP consumption module - Editing, imputation and smoothing

    Speaker: Markus M. Grabka, Rainer Siegers, Jan Marcus
    Location: Ferdinand-Friedensburg-Raum
    DIW Berlin
    Room 2.3.001
    Mohrenstraße 58
    10117 Berlin
    Time: 12:00 - 13:00

    In 2010 the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the first time included a detailed consumption module in the household questionnaire. This presentation discusses several methodological challenges of the new module and suggests remedy measures. The methodological challenges include inconsistencies between monthly and annual consumption information, missing values and a high incidence of ...

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  • June 25 - 27, 2012

    Conference

    12th Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference at DIW Berlin

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

    The 12th Jan Tinbergen Conference, annual meeting of NEPS, will take place on 25-27 June at the DIW Berlin, Department of Development and Security and is funded by The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). The Jan Tinbergen Conference is Europe’s leading interdisciplinary forum for scholars in the field of peace science and conflict research. The program is multi ...

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  • June 25 - 26, 2012

    Workshop

    WEIS 2012
    Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

    Speaker: Program Chair: Rainer Böhme, University of Münster, Gert G. Wagner, Nicola Jentzsch
    Location: Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
    Jägerstraße 22/23
    10117 Berlin

    The Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS) is the leading forum for interdisciplinary scholarship on information security and privacy, combining expertise from the fields of economics, social science, business, law, policy, and computer science. Prior workshops have explored the role of incentives between attackers and defenders of information systems, identified market failures ...

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