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Interview
Ms. Grohmann, you have examined the gender gap in financial literacy. In general, do women know more or less about financial matters than men do?
On average, women know less about financial matters than men in most countries. There are exceptions – Thailand and Russia, for example – but in 135 out of 144 countries, women know less about finances than men. [...]
The ...
18.11.2016
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Press Release
Germany’s research and development concentrated in urban areas – public research undergoing dynamic development
According to a new study conducted by the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), spatial proximity to industrial production plays a greater role for Germany’s private research and development (R&D) than does proximity to publicly funded research institutions ...
15.11.2016
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Interview
How large is Germany’s research and development (R&D) workforce, and which regions have the highest concentration of R&D activity?
In 2013, the German R&D workforce amounted to 589,000 people. We find a strong concentration in the two regions (so-called Raumordnungsregionen) of Stuttgart and Munich, with 19 percent of the workforce based there. Germany’s most densely ...
15.11.2016
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Report
Our database SOEPlit had to be stored on different servers several times in the last months. This is why SOEPlit in the moment cannot be accessed by klicking the quicklink provided on most of our websites.
We apologize for the trouble caused. Until we can fix the problem, please use the short URL http://www.diw.de/soeplit.
This URL will forward to SOEPlit even if we have to change the web address ...
03.11.2016
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Economic Bulletin
The nuclear power industry is faced with profound challenges— not only in Germany, but throughout Europe as well. New nuclear power plants are very expensive to build and even at high carbon prices, nuclear power is not competitive. Nevertheless, the EU reference scenario assumes that within the next three decades, new nuclear power plants will be built with a total capacity of at least 50 gigawatts ...
02.11.2016| Claudia Kemfert, Pao-Yu Oei
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Interview
Mr. Oei, Germany has decided to phase out nuclear energy. What do the plans for nuclear power in other European countries look like?
Countries have very different plans when it comes to nuclear power. Some countries, such as Germany, Italy, Austria and recently, Switzerland, have decided to phase out their nuclear power programs. Others—for example, Great Britain— have decided to implement ...
02.11.2016
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Personnel news
On November 1, Johanna Möllerström took over as the new Head of the Department of Competition and Consumers. Möllerström is also a Professor of Microeconomics at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Previously, she worked at the Interdisciplinary Center of Economic Science (ICES) at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. In 2013 she received a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her ...
01.11.2016
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Report
On Tuesday, October 25, the 2nd DIW Europe Lecture was held on “Stability, Equity and Monetary Policy”. The President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, looked at Europe’s economic and financial future: which challenges will Europe and the European Central Bank have to face in the months and years ahead? The speech held by the ECB president as well as a video of the event ...
27.10.2016
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Economic Bulletin
The past few decades have seen a considerable increase in caesarean section rates, which have now reached unprecedented levels. Concerns have been raised about the possibility of medically unnecessary procedures having negative consequences for mothers and infants (WHO, 2015). The aim of this report is to show that a properly implemented hospital-level policy may be a powerful tool for reducing the ...
26.10.2016| Sofia Amaral-Garcia, Jana Friedrichsen
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Interview
The past few decades have seen a significant increase in the C-section rates of many developed countries. How much have the rates increased in Italy and Germany, the subjects of your report?
We focus primarily on Italy, but we also discuss Germany to some extent—and according to OECD statistics for the year 1990, C-section rates amounted to 15 percent in Germany and approximately 20 percent ...
26.10.2016
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Report
We are happy to present our recent SOEPnewsletter 113, October 2016.
We like to inform about
the upcoming SOEP version 32 (data 1984-2015), to be released not later than December 15, 2016,
news on the SOEP information system paneldata.org (and the documentation of SOEP v31 at data.soep.de)
the changes at the LIS - Cross-national Data Center in Luxembourg
the change of name of our research institute ...
25.10.2016
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Report
New leadership structure at LIS
In a post on September 1, 2016, Janet Gornick, Director of the LIS since 2006, offers some key information about the new structure and recognizes several people who have made LIS what it is, over many years. Please read here the central paragraphs :
"Since its inception in 1983, LIS has had a single Director, responsible for the overall operation of LIS. Tim ...
21.10.2016
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Report
One new dataset from Germany, DE13, (Wave IX), has been added to the Luxembourg Income Study Database (LIS).
The dataset is from wave 31 of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP).
In addition to releasing the Wave IX dataset, the 7 earlier German datasets based on the same survey (DE10/07/04/00/94/89/84) have been revised for consistency.
See Revision notes for details.
The LIS Database includes:
Household- ...
21.10.2016
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Report
Researchers interested in submitting questions to the SOEP-IS 2017 survey should contact SOEP Survey Management by November 30, 2016, to present their proposal. If the project is determined to be viable from a survey methodology perspective, an official application procedure will follow. The official application must be received by December 31, 2016. Send us your proposal!
Applications should be submitted ...
21.10.2016
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Interview
Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, she has held teaching and research posts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the USA. She served in the Obama Administration as Chief Economist in the US Department of Labor from 2013-14 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury from ...
21.10.2016
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Report
On Tuesday, October 25, the 2nd DIW Europe Lecture will be held on “Stability, Equity and Monetary Policy”. The President of the European Central Bank, Mario Draghi, will look at Europe’s economic and financial future: which challenges will Europe and the European Central Bank have to face in the months and years ahead? The event will be streamed live.
The DIW Europe Lecture ...
20.10.2016
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Report
In Germany and many other countries, financial advisors are required by law to assess their clients’ risk preferences in order to help them make informed and appropriate investment decisions. Most institutions that provide financial advice - banks, for instance - carry out this assessment using just one type of risk measure. Financial advisors might ask clients to answer a question about their ...
19.10.2016
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Interview
Mr. Menkhoff, in many countries the law requires financial institutions to give financial advice to people who are going to invest money. How do financial institutions normally assess the risk attitude of their customers?
The most common way involves asking clients to self- assess their attitudes toward risk or their hypothetical response to a risky situation. Typically, clients will choose from a ...
19.10.2016
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Personnel news
Philipp Kaminsky began training as a Specialist in Market and Social Research (FAMS) at the SOEP in early October. The SOEP is in its sixth year of offering training for FAMS, and five SOEP trainees have already graduated from the program.
17.10.2016
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Personnel news
Successor of Simone Bartsch in PIAAC-L will be Luise Burkhardt. Luise studied sociology at the Technische Universität Dresden and at the University of Potsdam. Her master’s thesis examined the role of volunteer work in retirement based on an empirical investigation of retirees’ volunteer activities in the health field. Prior to accepting this position, Luise worked as a student assistant ...
17.10.2016