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The Gender Gap in Lifetime Earnings: The Role of Parenthood

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by women’s lower work experience and intensive margin of labor supply. Based on a dynamic microsimulation model, ...

Rent Control Reduces Economic Inequality at a Price

Over the course of the 20th century, governments have frequently used rent control to keep rents affordable, especially in times of crisis when housing is scarce. Existing research shows that rent control has undesirable side effects, such as overall societal welfare losses, market misallocation, a declining housing supply, and lower mobility. However, there has been little research examining the effect ...

Workshop FoReSee „Stranded assets in the fossil resource sector“

The final workshop of the project FoReSee will discuss latest research and findings on the effects of climate change and climate policy on asset stranding in the fossil resource sector. Researchers from Berlin and abroad will present their research. Stéphane Hallegatte (Worldbank) will give a keynote speech on asset stranding in theory and practice.DIW Berlin will host the workshop that is...

Financial Education is Effective and Efficient

German leading research institutions bring Europe's largest social science panel study to Berlin

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) will enrich the science location Berlin. The founding partners now signed the partnership agreement for the new SHARE Berlin Institute. SHARE will in future be embedded in a collaboration of four leading research institutions: the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), the Charité ...

The economic and social impact of COVID-19 mitigation policies: A cross-country analysis of macro events

The project will explore the economic and social effects the mitigation policies and information environment that COVID-19 spawned. We will link those policies to data from ongoing household-based panel studies from 10 countries and rich administrative data from an eleventh. We will exploit the substantial intra and inter-country temporal and geographic variation in non-pharmacological...

Die intergenerationale Reproduktion von Vermögensungleichheit und deren sozio-demographischen Bedingungen in Deutschland (InterVerm / DFG)

Die Vermögensungleichheit hat in vielen OECD-Ländern in den letzten Jahrzehnten zugenommen. Intergenerationale Prozesse der Vermögensreproduktion, die bewirken, dass erwachsene Kinder ähnliche Vermögenspositionen wie ihre Eltern zu einem ähnlichen Alter besetzen, sind besonders zentral, um die Entstehung von Ungleichheiten zu verstehen, weil u.a. Vermögen direkt ...

Report „Decarbonisation of energy“ for the European Parliament

The department Energy, Transportation, Environment has published the report „Decarbonisation of energy“ jointly with the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel. In the report, several options for the energy system in 2050 are discussed. The report was prepared for the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and was presented to the Committee in March 2022. The report can be found online here: ...

Emobpy: A tool for time series generation of battery electric vehicles

emobpy is a Python open-source tool that enables us to generate battery electric vehicle time series. The tool was released in 2020 on Gitlab and PyPI for the first time. A description of the tool was published as an open-access article in Scientific Data. Now we have just passed the 10K downloads!. We want to reach out to everyone who uses emobpy or is...

Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Research Meets Household Panel Surveys: Research Potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel and Its Boost Sample of SGM Households

There are numerous challenges to studying structural inequality in sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations, from the difficulty of obtaining a representative sample to issues comparing data across populations. This data brief illustrates how the largest household panel survey in Germany, the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), and its recent nationwide boost sample of SGM households, Sample Q, ...