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  • SOEPcampus

    Learn to use the SOEP over Lunch

    The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...

    26.10.2022| Sandra Bohmann
  • SOEPcampus

    SOEPcampus@Home

    The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...

    25.08.2022| Sandra Bohmann
  • Research Project

    Linked Open Research Data for Social Science Pilot Study (LORDpilot)

    The re-use of research data is an integral part of research practice in the social and economic sciences. To find relevant data, researchers need adequate search facilities. However, a comprehensive, thematic search for research data that is not limited to individual survey programs is difficult. Because individual survey programs use their own terminology to describe their data and the...

    Completed Project| German Socio-Economic Panel study
  • Workshop

    Macroeconometric Workshop

    We are pleased to announce that on May 27, 2022 DIW Berlin will host the “Macroeconometric Workshop”. The workshop covers presentations of both methodological and applied contributions on the frontier of research in quantitative macroeconomics, with a focus on empirical research. The event is jointly organized by the School of Business & Economics of Freie Universität Berlin...

    27.05.2022| Morten Ravn, University College London
  • Report

    SOEP-IS for new research questions: call for proposals for the 2023 survey

    Researchers in Germany and abroad are invited to submit proposals for the next round of the SOEP Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). For those not yet familiar with SOEP-IS, this unique random sample of German households (N = 2,800 households with about 4,000 respondents) offers great potential as a source of household micro-data, particularly for researchers seeking information that is not available in SOEP-Core—for ...

    25.05.2022| David Richter
  • SOEPcampus

    SOEPcampus@Home

    The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...

    22.02.2022| Sandra Bohmann
  • Diskussionspapiere 1998 / 2022

    Facebook Shadow Profiles

    Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We quantify the extent to which Facebook can track web behavior outside of their own platform. The network of engagement ...

    2022| Luis Aguiar, Christian Peukert, Maximilian Schäfer, Hannes Ullrich
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Foreign Accents in the Early Hiring Process: A Field Experiment on Accent-Related Ethnic Discrimination in Germany

    Based on a field experiment conducted in Germany between October 2014 and October 2015, this article focuses on the disadvantages associated with the presence of a foreign accent in the early hiring process, when applicants call in response to a job advertisement to ask whether the position is still available. We examine whether a foreign accent influences employers’ behaviors via productivity considerations ...

    In: International Migration Review 56 (2022), 2, S. 562-593 | Miriam Schmaus, Cornelia Kristen
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    One Hundred Years of Rent Control in Argentina: Much Ado about Nothing

    Following World War I, rent control became a standard policy response to the housing shortage and the resulting rent increases. Typically, economists blame it for creating inefficiencies in the housing market and beyond. We investigate whether rental market regulations (including rent control, protection of tenants from eviction, and housing rationing) had any effects in a middle-income Latin American ...

    In: Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 37 (2022), S. 1923–1970 | Alejandro D. Jacobo, Konstantin A. Kholodilin
  • Refereed essays Web of Science

    Protecting the Ego: Motivated Information Selection and Updating

    We investigate whether individuals self-select feedback that allows them to maintain their motivated beliefs. In our lab experiment, subjects can choose the information structure that gives them feedback regarding their rank in the IQ distribution (ego-relevant treatment) or regarding a random number (control). Although beliefs are incentivized, individuals are less likely to select the most informative ...

    In: European Economic Review 142 (2022), 104007, 20 S. | Alessandro Castagnetti, Renke Schmacker
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