[Objectives of the study] This survey report summarizes main information on the data collection process within the study 'Early childhood education and care quality in the Socio-Economic Panel' (SOEP-ECEC Quality). The project reran from September 2013 to April 2017 and was funded by the Jacobs...

[Overview] The statistics of annual accounts of public funds, institutions and enterprises (Statistik der Jahresabschlüsse öffentlicher Fonds, Einrichtungen und Unternehmen, abbreviated as JAB) contains information on annual balance sheets, income statements, reports on assets and...

[Introduction and research goals] Students whose parents do not have a college degree are still underrepresented at German universities, although many graduate from high school with a college entrance qualification. Why is this the case and what are possible policy measures that might increase...

Coal is at the core of the debate about climate change mitigation policies, yet the international market for it is not well represented in most energy models. This paper presents the COALMOD framework which is a model of the international steam coal market that can be readily used to explore...

This paper documents methodology underlying the construction of the integrated data base for our study on "Wer trägt die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems" (Who bears the tax burden in Germany? - Distributional Analyses of the German tax...

This data documentation introduces to nodal dispatch models and the literature of the ELMOD model framework, which focuses on bottom-up electricity sector models with detailed spatial representation of the transmission system. The paper provides the technical description of ELMOD-DE, a nodal DC...

The Research Data Centers of the German Federal Statistical Office and the Statistical Offices of the German 'Länder' provide information on potable water supply in Germany ('Statistik der öffentlichen Wasserver- und Abwasserentsorgung', EVAS No. 32211). Together with these statistics,...

Environmental employment is an issue with high interest to the public and to policy makers. Yet, the debate is blurred by a great number of distinct definitions and hence estimates of environmental employment. Therefore it is essential to carefully document delimitations and methods used in any...

Long-term contracts are an important element of all economic activity and, thus, critical for understanding modern economic structures. The natural gas industry provides particular insights into the functioning and dynamics of long-term contracts and industry structures, in a sector that is...