Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird untersucht, welche forschenden Volkswirte und Nichtökonomen direkten Einfluss in Öffentlichkeit und auf die Wirtschaftspolitik haben. Zu diesem Zweck machen wurden Zitate wissenschaftlicher Publikationen und Nennungen von Wissenschaftlern in führenden Medien und...

The article analyzes the question of whether career politicians differ systematically from the general population in terms of their attitudes toward risk. A written survey of members of the 17th German Bundestag in late 2011 identified their risk attitudes, and the survey data was set in...

In this paper we discuss the rationale for tracing non-original sample members (Non-OSMs) in household panel studies, and in particular in SOEP, and the implications for weighting. We present results on the incidence, survival rates, and thus the relevance of Non-OSMs in the SOEP

This study examines the phenomenon of nonresponse in the first wave of a refresher sample (subsample H) of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). Our first step is to link additional (commercial) microgeographic data on the immediate neighborhoods of the households visited by...