We screen the mental well-being and psychological distress of 1165 refugees, migrants, internally displaced, and non-displaced people from Ukraine who seek psychological help online in Ukraine and across 24 countries of the European Union. We see that more than half of the respondents exhibit...

Die Expertenkommission hat in ihrem aktuellen Gutachten Vorschläge zur Reform derGovernance-Strukturen zur Bewältigung der drängenden Transformationen formuliert.Dabei wird gezeigt, wie politisch gesetzte komplexe Ziele erreicht und dafür erforderlicheMaßnahmen umgesetzt werden können. Die...

[Introduction:] The evaluation of policy interventions is an essential tool for reviewing and optimizing policies, especially in the field of research and innovation (R&I) policy (BMWi 2013). Policy evaluations involve systematic analyses to assess the design, implementation, and impact of...

Anita Dietrich, Florian Dorn, Clemens Fuest, ifo Institut, Daniel Gros, Giorgio Presidente und Philipp-Leo Mengel, Bocconi Universität, Mailand, vergleichen die EU-Innovationspolitik mit der in den USA. Investitionen in FuE in der EU und in Deutschland konzentrieren sich auf Sektoren, die als...

The transformation of economy and society requires far-reaching technological and social innovations. To utilise the economic opportunities of transformation and to mitigate the negative effects of structural change, a determined transformation-oriented R&I policy is needed. Using the example of...

Survey data for a large sample of recent graduates from 37 German universities are used to study labor market outcomes of highly skilled young women and immigrants. Our results indicate a systemic wage gap for women, but not for male immigrants. We find no evidence that female immigrants suffer...

Untersucht wurden räumliche Implikationen der zunehmenden Drittmittelorientierung in der Deutschen Wissenschaftspolitik seit Ende der 1990er Jahre. Die empirischen Ergebnisse legen nahe, dass jenseits der Faktoren, die den Förderumfang aus den unmittelbaren Förderzielen der Drittmittelgeber...

Are college dropouts successful entrepreneurs? Other than anecdotal evidence on illustrious college dropouts who managed to become self-made billionaires, there is only limited empirical evidence to answer this question. This paper addresses this issue by investigating the relationship between...

A robust relationship between subjective well-being and mortality has been established in the literature. While this relationship has been confirmed for many measures and data sets, few studies address how it is affected by concrete diseases. In this paper we assess for the British Household...

Using a new dataset with detailed geographic information about licensing activities of the Max Planck Society, Germany's largest non-university public research organization, we analyze how the probability and magnitude of commercial success are affected by geographic distance between licensors...