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31.01.2024BiB Fellow Gert G. Wagner passed away
The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) mourns the loss of Gert G. Wagner: With his death on January 28, 2024, the social sciences lose one of its most important scientists and the BiB one of its first BiB Fellows.
Source: © Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft (HIIG)
Gert G. Wagner was responsible for the establishment and further development of panel studies in Germany. For decades, he led and shaped the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) and developed it further with numerous innovative ideas - making it one of the most important social science panel studies in the world. The BiB also benefited from his great expertise in the further development of the family demographic panel FReDA. We would like to thank him for his dedication. We will continue to be inspired by many of his ideas even after his untimely death.