Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Employment Generation in Rural Africa

Stop Smoking, Your Paycheck Will Thank You! Wage Effects of Smoking Cessation

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Der Energiemarkt der Zukunft: Überblicksvortrag

Markt- und Systemtransformation ¿Die Zukunft des Strommarktes¿: Podiumsdiskussion

Analyzing Health Risks, Early Retirement and Saving Behavior with a Structural Life-Cycle Model

This paper proposes a structural life-cycle model to analyze the relationship between health risks, early retirement and saving behavior for employees in Germany. I rely on the framework of a dynamic programming discrete choice model with a discretized saving decision. The model accounts for both forward looking behavior and unobserved heterogeneity which is specified seminonparametrically. Health...

Does Job Loss Make You Smoke and Gain Weight?

This paper estimates the effect of involuntary job loss on smoking behavior and body weight using German Socio-Economic Panel Study data. Baseline nonsmokers are more likely to start smoking due to job loss, while smokers do not intensify their smoking. Job loss increases body weight slightly, but significantly. In particular, single individuals as well as those with lower health or socioeconomic...

Access to Product Markets and Child Labour: Survey Evidence from Rural Uganda

The study analyses the relationship between access to rural product markets and the extent and nature of child labour. It is built on the view that if physical markets can shape rural development through, for instance, influencing prices, household production decisions and employment, the associated activity growth could increase child labour. Using household survey data from Uganda, I find that...

Trick or Treat? Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills

Negative effects of job loss on adults such as considerable fall in income have long been examined. If job loss has negative consequences for adults it may spread to their children. But potential effects on children's non-cognitive skills and the related mechanisms have been less examined. This paper uses propensity score matching to analyze maternal involuntary job loss and its potential causal...

Einkommens- und Vermögensverteilung in Deutschland

Intermediate Merger Incentives in a Three-Tier Industry Structure

A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US

ESBies: Eine Zwei-Säulen-Strategie für Europa

Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: Validating a Structural Model Using a Natural Experiment

Access to Microinsurance and Social Networks

Die Finanzierungsoptionen in der GKV: Gestaltungsoptionen, Finanzparameter, Erfahrungen aus anderen Ländern

Modul 5 - Intergenerationale Analysen mit dem SOEP: Verfügbare Informationen, Datenstruktur und Analysebeispiele

Modes of Global Banking and Macroeconomic Volatility

Bank Risk-Taking and Monetary Policy: Regional Evidence from U.S. Commercial Banks

Innovation and Infrastructure