Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Imputation of Missing Disposable Household Income in the SOEP Dataset

Short Assessment of the Big Five: Robust across Survey Methods Except Telephone Interviewing

Nonresponse when Linking Survey Data with Administrative Data

Personality Traits and Interviewer Effects in Face-to-Face Surveys

Sampling of Ethnic Germans (Spät-Aussiedler): The Quality of Data Drawn Using Onomastic Methods Based on Telephone Registry Information

Onomastic Methods: An Approach to Avoid Under-Representation of Immigrants in Surveys

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Social security entitlements are a substantial source of wealth that grows in importance over the individual's lifecycle. Despite its quantitative relevance, social security wealth has been thus far omitted from wealth inequality analyses. In Germany, it is the lack of adequate micro data that accounts for this shortcoming. The two main contributions of this paper are: First, to elaborate a...

Cross Sectional Weights in Household Panel Surveys: Approaches and Conditions for their Equivalence

Change in Handgrip Strength and Overall Satisfaction with Life as Predictors of Mortality

Incentives and Response Rates: Experience from the SOEP-Innovation-Sample 2009

Survey Error and the Theory of Liking: Evidence Based on a Household Panel¿s Interviewer Survey

Langfristprognosen zur wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Deutschland

Preference for Randomization: Empirical and Experimental Evidence

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Long-Run Evolution of Fossil Fuel Prices: Evidence from Persistence Break Testing

Do Regions with Entrepreneurial Neighbors Perform Better? A Spatial Econometric Approach for German Regions

We use a neoclassical production function to analyze the effects of knowledge spillovers via entrepreneurship on economic performance of 337 German districts. To take the spatial dependence structure of the data into account, we estimate a spatial Durbin model. We highlight the importance of the choice of the appropriate weight matrix. We find positive knowledge spillover effects via...

Analyzing the Impact of Financial Conditions on the Business Cycle: A Fresh Look after the Crisis

Statistisches Matching von administrativen und Erhebungsdaten: eine Anwendung auf die Analyse von Vermögensungleichheit

Analyse und Vergleich asiatischer Innovationssysteme

Crime and Conspicuous Consumption