Category Archives: Research

As of June 2025: JCEBS Impact Factor now 3.7

Posted on June 25, 2025 by admin

Amelie F. Constant, Simone Schüller and Klaus F. Zimmermann (2023). “Ethnic spatial dispersion and immigrant identity.” Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies (JCEBS). 2024, Vol. 22, No. 2, 205–230. Open Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/14765284.2023.2220271

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Klaus F. Zimmermann met with Skúli Magnússon, the “father of modern Reykjavík”

Posted on June 12, 2025 by admin

Klaus F. Zimmermann, GLO President & Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics (CiteScore) currently visits Reykjavík for a public lecture on June 12 on The Economics of Fertility Decline in the National Museum. The PRICE Lecture on Declining Fertility … Continue reading →

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The Factors That Reduce Fertility and The Policies that Enhance it

Posted on December 23, 2024 by admin

The kick-off conference “The Factors That Reduce Fertility and The Policies that Enhance it” of the Family, Fertility and Human Development Initiative on December 19-20, 2024 at the Corvinus University of Budapest aimed to convene leading scholars and analysts from around the … Continue reading →

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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Well-Being: Paper now published OPEN ACCESS Online First in Kyklos – Math Stereotypes of Parents Increase Student Misery!

Posted on October 25, 2024 by admin

Across the world, a well-known gender stereotype suggests that boys are better at learning mathematics than girls. Using rich data on Chinese school kids, the study demonstrates that this parental stereotype has a very strong and robust negative impact on … Continue reading →

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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden. New paper published & available free access.

Posted on August 1, 2024 by admin

Christopher F. Baum, Hans Lööf, Andreas Stephan & Klaus F. Zimmermann (2024), “Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden”. Industrial and Labor Relations Review. PDF of published version. OPEN ACCESS.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00197939241261640 Experimental: a NotebookLM-generated Podcast about this paper Abstract: This article … Continue reading →

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How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?

Posted on June 20, 2024 by admin

The Economist this week asks: “How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?” In a related academic article in the China Economic Review, the rise of China in economics research was analyzed: Matloob Piracha, Massimiliano Tani, Klaus F. Zimmermann … Continue reading →

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Back to Berlin for EBES 47 and GLO Berlin 2024

Posted on April 17, 2024 by admin

Back to Berlin for EBES 47 and GLO Berlin 2024 to organize a strong academic conference in collaboration with FOM University of Applied Sciences and the Journal of Population Economics (JOPE) on April 18-20. For the final GLO – JOPE … Continue reading →

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Celebrating 150 Years of Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association) at Regensburg/Germany.

Posted on September 27, 2023 by admin

On September 24-27 the 2023 Annual Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS; German Economic Association) took place to celebrate the 150 anniversary of its creation and to discuss new research. The event was directed by its Chairwoman, Regina Riphahn. … Continue reading →

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Gender equity and the gender gap in STEM: is there really a paradox? Free access to a new article published in the Journal of Population Economics.

Posted on July 15, 2023 by admin

Results cast doubt on the existence of a gender-equity paradox between culturally-inherited beliefs about gender equality and women’s representation in STEM. Jergins, W. Gender equity and the gender gap in STEM: is there really a paradox?. Journal of Population Economics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00959-9 … Continue reading →

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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth: evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics. Free access to a new article published in the Journal of Population Economics.

Posted on July 14, 2023 by admin

Maternity benefits decrease divorce within the first year after birth. Brainerd, E., Malkova, O.: Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth: evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics. Journal of Population Economics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00148-023-00958-w Free to read: https://rdcu.be/dgKqX JOPE has CiteScore 9.2 MORE … Continue reading →

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