The regional news portal Oiger reported on the study by project leader Sascha Becker. His research shows that East and West Germans already differed significantly from one another even before the construction of the Berlin Wall, and that these differences...

Handelsblatt, Germany’s business and financial daily, published an interview with Claudia Goldin, Nobel laureate in economics, Harvard Professor, and Fellow of the RFBerlin Network. Speaking during her visit to Berlin for the RFBerlin Annual Public Lecture 2025, Goldin discussed the...

Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin, Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Fellow of the RFBerlin Network, was featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung, one of Germany’s leading daily newspapers. In the interview, she discussed how tax and labour market structures shape gender...

Affari & Finanza, the economics and finance supplement of La Repubblica, Italy’s daily newspaper, published an article analysing Poland’s economic transformation and its use of EU membership to drive structural change and sustained growth. The piece highlights how Poland has...

The German public broadcaster MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) featured research by RFBerlin project leader Sascha Becker and his co-authors, examining how Martin Luther’s teachings continue to shape modern ideas of success and influence. Becker emphasized that “Luther’s influence worked above all...

L’Express, one of France’s leading weekly news magazines, published an interview with Christian Dustmann discussing Europe’s difficulty in addressing immigration and integration from a long-term perspective. The conversation followed new INSEE data showing that six million foreigners currently live in...