September 21, 2011
8th International Young Scholar German Socio-Economic Panel Symposium
March 29-30, 2012, Delmenhorst (Bremen)
July 27, 2011
OECD Principles and Guidelines for Access to Research Data from Public Funding
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
© OECD 2007
May 4, 2011
The 16 newly elected members of the RatSWD have now been appointed by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, BMBF) for the 4th appointment period.
May 4, 2011
The Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC) is a combined platform for empirical research in business administration and economics of the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It aims at opening up new fields of empirical research in business administration and economics.
April 21, 2011
The cult of statistical significance
What economists should and should not do to make their data talk
Walter Krämer
March 24, 2011
On 23th of March, 2011, RatSWD chairman Prof. Dr. Gert G. Wagner delivered the recommendations of both the working group and the German Data Forum to State Secretary Stefan Kapferer, in the presence of Dr. med. Sabine Luttmann and Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Mueller.
Wagner used the the appointment at the Federal Ministry of Health to promote the work of the RatSWD. In future, data on health will become increasingly relevant, also for social research, and will consequently become more relevant for the activities of the German Data Forum.
March 1, 2011
"Honoring a life's work appropriately"
Producing data for research is not just costly in time. It also requires expertise. Viewed in this way, is the production of data itself, already an academic achievement? Yes, says Berlin-based economist Gert G. Wagner. What we need, he claims, is an adjusted citation culture.
February 21, 2011
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February 10, 2011
World Database of Happiness
Example of a focused 'Findings Archive'
Ruut Veenhoven
January 31, 2011
The continuous advancement of a research infrastructure for the empirical social, economic and behavioral sciences, put forward by the German Data Forum, has been positively emphasized in the "Recommendations for research infrastructures in the humanities and social sciences", published in January 2011.
January 25, 2011
Growth, wealth and quality of life: the working-paper-series of the German Data Forum will contribute to the discussion - Economic expert Christoph Schmidt will break the first ground.
The German Bundestag has called for an Enquete-Commission on the topic of "Growth, wealth and quality of life". Constisting of 17 delegate members and 17 experts, the commission's prime task is to discuss and develop "alternative indicators of wealth" that could complement or even replace the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a central political variable.
Januar 24, 2011
Beyond GDP and Back: What is the Value-Added by Additional Components of Welfare Measurement?
Sonja C. Kassenboehmer und Christoph M. Schmidt
January 17, 2011
View the results of the election of the appointed scientific members of the German Data Forum (RatSWD), which took place on 13. January 2011 in Wiesbaden
January 11, 2011
The 5th Conference for Social and Economic Data (5|KSWD) on 13th and 14th January 2011 in Wiesbaden will inform its guests about the Census 2011 and discuss new indicators of welfare and quality of life
