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BeWell 2025: Annual Conference on Well-Being

On February 24 and 25, 2025, the 6th BeWell Annual Conference on Well-Being will take place at Freie Universität Berlin, organized by the Berlin Network for Research on Well-Being (BeWell).

This year's conference will cover a wide range of topics in well-being research, including governance, gender, spatial mobility, environmental influences, and their impact on well-being.

Andrew Clark from the Paris School of Economics will deliver the keynote lecture.

Venue: Freie Universität Berlin, Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin.

The FAZ draws on Prof. Schöb's expertise on happiness research

As part of the article “Geld macht doch glücklich! Oder nicht?”, Professor Schöb was asked for his opinion on this question based on his intensive involvement with happiness research.

On 19.09.2024, Prof. Schöb gave the opening speech at the Day of Municipal Job Centers

On 19.09. and 20.09.2024 the “Day of Municipal Job Centers 2024” took place in Berlin.

Prof. Schöb was invited to give the opening speech this year. In it, he explored the question of how the variously intertwined and often uncoordinated social benefits that exist side by side can be simplified and structured differently and presented various approaches for a realignment of the citizen's allowance on the one hand and the system of housing benefit and child supplement on the other.

Professor Schöb also took part in the subsequent panel discussion with Dr. Klaus Bermig (Head of the SGB II sub-department at the BMAS), Dr. Markus Mempel (Deutscher Landkreistag) and Elena Weber (Diakonie Deutschland).

Professor Schöb accepted the BDA's invitation to a lunch talk on 11.09.2024

Together with Gitta Connemann MdB, Federal Chairwoman of the Mittelstands- und Wirtschaftsunion and Dr. Hans-Jürgen Urban, Managing Board Member of IG Metall, Prof. Schöb discussed the question: “What must the welfare state of the future look like?” in the BDA's virtual lunchtalk on 11.09.2024.

Teaching program winter semester 2024/25 offered by the Chair of Professor Schöb

Professor Schöb offers the following lectures in the current winter semester 2024/25 in the Bachelor's program “Economics”:
1) Introduction to Economics
2) Environmental Economics

In the Master's degree programs “Economics” and “Public Economics”, Professor Schöb holds the lecture:
Lecture Welfare State Reforms (Master)

In addition, Dr. Pranvera Shehaj offers the Master's course: Economics of the Welfare State

We look forward to welcoming you to our courses.
Further information can be found in the current teaching program.

NDR interview with Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb from July 11, 2024 on the planned changes to the Basic Guarantee.

The NDR interviewed Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb on July 11th, 2024 about the changes planned by the German government to the Basic Guarantee.

You can listen to the short interview in the ARD audio library.

Prof. Ronnie Schöb was a guest on SAT.1 "Frühstücksfernsehen" on July 9, 2024

On 9 July 2024, Prof. Dr Ronnie Schöb commented on SAT.1 "Frühstücksfernsehen" on the changes to the Basic Guarantee planned by the government as part of its growth initiative presented on 5 July 2024. He also pointed out the continuing problems with the current Basic Guarantee.

"Welt am Sonntag" interview with Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb from July 7, 2024

On July 7, 2024 an interview with Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb was published in the "Welt am Sonntag", in which he comments on various problems of the current Basic Guarantee.

Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb at the Economic Dialogue of the Federal Ministry of Finance on July 4th 2024

As part of the 75th anniversary of the The Advisory Board to the Federal Ministry of Finance , Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb will speak on a panel about the work of the Advisory Council with Federal Minister of Finance Christian Lindner on problems of the Basic Guarantee.

The event is part of the "Economic Dialogue" series organized by the Federal Ministry of Finance.

Successful disputation by Peihua Deng

Peihua Deng received her doctorate from the chair of Prof. Dr. Ronnie Schöb on 22.05.2024 after successfully defending her thesis.

In her dissertation entitled "Subjective well-being in China", she deals with the question of the extent to which income inequality affects the life satisfaction of different social groups in China.
A particular focus here is on differences between internal migrants and the inhabitants of urban regions, which can be explained by the so-called hokou system.
With her contribution, she provides important insights for migration and well-being research.


The entire department would like to congratulate Peihua Deng!

New empirical study published by Pranvera Shehaj and Martin Zagler

Dr. Pranvera Shehaj from our chair and her co-author Prof. Martin Zagler recently published the study "Asymmetric Double Tax Treaties: Relief Method and Tax Sparing for Foreign Direct Investment in Developing Countries" in the renowned journal "Public Finance Review".

New paper published by Pranvera Shehaj and Alfons Weichenrieder

We are delighted that Dr. Pranvea Shehaj, who works as a post-doc at our chair, and her co-author Prof. Alfons Weichenrieder were able to publish the paper "Corporate income tax, IP boxes and the location of R&D" in the renowned journal "International Tax Public Finance".

New Discussion Paper by Dr. Ulrich Schneider, Tom Günther et al.

Dr. Ulrich Schneider and Tom Günther from the Chair of International Public Economics have published a new discussion paper together with Fabian Stürmer-Heiber (LMU Munich) entitled "Working more for less".

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