Veranstaltungsort: Allianz Forum, Pariser Platz 6, 10117 Berlin, Konferenzraum 4022
Recent political developments in Poland have triggered many questions concerning the reasons and consequences for Poland and Europe. There is a debate as to what the development means for democracy. In his lecture, Radoslaw Markowski will provide some answers and explanations.
This interdisciplinary two-day conference explores the role of contexts in the production and reproduction of social inequality.
Contexts matter for individual and aggregate outcomes because they channel opportunities and define choices. Contexts connect individuals or segregate them from each other. Contexts include neighborhoods, networks, families, schools, workplaces, and nations.
This conference brings together economists and sociologists, for an interdisciplinary exchange of theory, evidence, and methodology.
The relationship between processes and time-varying covariates is of central theoretical interest in many social science research questions. On the one hand, event history analysis has been the method chosen to study the relationship between time-varying covariates and outcomes that can meaningfully be specified as simple instantaneous events or transitions.
Social scientists have generated a large and inconclusive literature on the effect(s) of marriage on men’s wages. Researchers have hypothesized that the wage premium enjoyed by married men may reflect both a tendency for more productive men to marry and an effect of marriage on productivity. To sort out these explanations, researchers have used fixed effects regression models for panel data. This article shows that these models are generally inappropriate for answering the causal questions of interest.
Throughout history persons with power seem to have been convinced that they could influence the people most effectively with visual art and therefore they invested a lot of resources into the visual presentation of power. It is usually argued that the people with their “simple minds” need visual art to understand a complex world. However, it might be more to the truth that not the people but the rulers themselves are the most addicted persons to the messages transported by visual arts.
The 12th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference (SOEP 2016) will be held in Berlin, June 22-23, 2016, at the WZB | Berlin Social Science Center.