RFBerlin’s research has a strong economic focus, with an emphasis on applied and data driven research on significant and relevant challenges to the welfare state in a global world. Our work is carried out impartially and based on objective scientific principles, adhering to the highest standards of academic excellence. The goals of our research are to inform, to raise the standard of public debate and to create the best possible basis for political decision making.
RFBerlin’s research agenda is organised into 3 main themes.
No. 11/25 - April 2025
Age Discrimination in Hiring: Evidence from Online Job Ads
Qinyue Luo, Liaoliang Zhang, Xinhan Zhang
No. 10/25 - April 2025
The Gender Gap in Career Trajectories: Do Firms Matter?
David Card, Francesco Devicienti, Mariacristina Rossi, Andrea Weber
No. 09/25 - March 2025
The Impact of Raising the Minimum Legal Drinking Age on Academic Achievement and Risky Behaviour: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Approach
Luis Alonso-Armesto, Julio Cáceres-Delpiano, Warn N. Lekfuangfu
No. 08/25 - March 2025
The Cost of Tolerating Intolerance: Right-wing Protest and Hate Crimes
Sulin Sardoschau, Annalí Casanueva-Artís
Journal of Political Economy, March 2025
There’s More to Marriage Than Love: The Effect of Legal Status and Cultural Distance on Intermarriages and Separations
Jérôme Adda, Paolo Pinotti & Giulia Tura
Journal of Public Economics, February 2025
The big sell: Privatizing East Germany’s economy
Moritz Lubczyk, Moritz Hennicke, Lukas Mergele
Journal of Labor Economics, January 2025
Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment
Jacob Nielsen Arendt , Christian Dustmann , and Hyejin Ku
Labour Economics, January 2025
Unlucky migrants: Scarring effect of recessions on the assimilation of the foreign born
Gabriele Lucchetti, Alessandro Ruggier
The Review of Economic Studies, 2024
American Economic Journal, October 2024
The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks
Ines Helm and Jan Stuhler
