Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Impulse für die Zukunft: Themen der Sozialinitiative zur Diskussion gestellt: Impulsreferat zum Thema Generationengerechtigkeit

The Welfare Impact of Parallel Imports: A Structural Approach Applied to the German Market for Oral Antidiabetics

Sample Selection and Quantile Regression: An Application to Wages in Germany

The Freedom of Others: On Behavioral Responses to a "General Amnesty" in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany)

Is It the Family or the Neighborhood? A Comparison of Family and Neighborhood Effects in Youth Education and Health

The Impact of Education on Personality: Evidence from a German High School Reform

Natural Disaster, Policy Action, and Mental Well-Being: The Case of Fukushima

We study the impact of the Fukushima disaster on people's mental well-being in another industrialized country, more than 5000 miles distant. The meltdown significantly increased environmental concerns by 20% among the German population. Subsequent drastic policy action permanently shut down the oldest nuclear reactors, implemented the phase-out of the remaining ones, and proclaimed the transition...

The Short-Run Costs of Moving: Internal Migration and Consumption Growth in Indonesia

Adverse Effects of Increased Education Efficiency? The Impact of Shortening High School Tenure on Grade Repetitions

Low-Skilled Labor Migration in Tajikistan: Determinants and Effects on Expenditure Patterns

The Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Child Health: Evidence from Mongolia

Locus of Control and Low-Wage Mobility

We investigate whether non-cognitive skills - in particular Locus of Control - are important determinants of the labour market processes at the low-wage margin. Based . - on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we estimate dynamic multinomial logit models with random effects and investigate whether Locus of Control . - influences the probability of being higher-paid or low-paid as well as...

Social Norms or Income Taxation - What Drives Couple's Labor Supply? Experimental Evidence

Is There an Added Worker Effect in Germany? Evidence from Involuntary Job Loss

Investitionen in den frühkindlichen Bereich zahlen sich aus: warum hier mehr zu tun ist, und wie es funktionieren kann

Besteht die EU die Herausforderungen einer globalen Wirtschaft?

Financing Patterns of Innovative SMEs and the Perception of Innovation Barriers in Germany

R&D Behavior of German Manufacturing Companies during the 2008/09 Recession

Regulation of Pharmaceutical Prices: Evidence from a Reference Price Reform in Denmark

Reference price systems for prescription drugs constitute widely adopted cost containment tools. In these systems, patients co-pay a fraction of the difference between a drug’s pharmacy retail price and a reference price that is set by the government. Reference prices are either determined externally (based on drug prices in other countries) or internally (based on domestic drug prices). We study...

Die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung nach dem Rentenpaket: Herausforderungen für die Zukunft