Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Equipping South African Industry for a Carbon Tax

Postcolonial Memories in Segregated Neighbourhoods

The Effect of Unemployment on the Mental Health of Spouses: Evidence from Plant Closures in Germany

Studies on health effects of unemployment usually neglect spillover effects on spouses. This study specifically investigates the effect of an individual's unemployment on the mental health of their spouse. In order to allow for causal interpretation of the estimates, it focuses on an exogenous entry into unemployment (i.e. plant closure), and combines difference-in-difference and matching based on...

Liquidity Constraints and the Permanent Income Hypothesis: Pseudo Panel Estimation with German Consumption Survey Data

This paper empirically investigates the relevance of liquidity constraints and excess sensitivity in intertemporal household consumption. Using a pseudo panel that has been constructed on rich German consumption survey data, we estimate the consumption responses to permanent and transitory income shocks, as well as the presence of excess sensitivity to anticipated income changes. A switching...

Die wirtschaftlichen Chancen einer klugen Energiewende

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany and the World Economy

An Agent-Based Model of Austrian Economics

Von Heterogenitäten zu Ungleichheiten: Frauen in Führungspositionen

The Treatment Effect of Attending a High-Quality School and the Influence of Unobservables

Macroeconomic Developments in Germany: Background, Current Situation, Challenges

The Role of Asset Prices for Private Consumption

Informational Opacity and Honest Certification

Intermediate Merger Incentives in a Three-Tier Industry Structure

Förderung und Wohlergehen von Kindern

Innovations in the Longitudinal Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Does Citizenship Matter? The Impact of Citizenship Policy on Migrants' Living Conditions

A Representative Analysis of the Name-Letter-Effect

The Returns to Education for Opportunity Entrepreneurs, Necessity Entrepreneurs and Regular Employees

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research

Perceived Control Facilitates Adjustment to Unemployment: Findings from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP)

Perceived control is a general-purpose mechanism for adaptation and a resource people draw upon in the face of obstacles. Little is known, however, about how control itself changes with the experience of critical life events and what the antecedents, correlates, and consequences are. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (N = 413, M Age = 41, 48% women) and examine how perceived...