Boryana Ilieva, who worked at the Public Economics department, has successfully defended her dissertation at Humboldt University of Berlin. The dissertation with the title "Essays on Labor Economics, Dynamic Decision Making and the Role of Gender" was supervised by Prof. Georg Weizsäcker, Ph. D. and Prof. Dr. Peter Haan. We congratulate Boryana on her success and wish her all the best for her future ...
Shan Huang has successfully defended her dissertation at the University of Copenhagen. The dissertation with the title "Essays on the economics of health care provision" was supervised by Professor Dr. Hannes Ullrich (DIW Berlin and University of Copenhagen). Shan was a PhD student at the Firms and Markets Department and GC class of 2017. We congratulate her on her success and wish her all the best ...
This chapter provides an overview of the German long-term care insurance. We document care needs and wellbeing of the elderly population. Moreover, we provide a detailed description of the German long-term care institutions (sources of finance and types of benefits), the professional care work force, and informal caregivers. Finally, we document expenditures on long-term care and estimate the value ...
While wind power is considered key in the transition towards net zero, there are concerns about adverse health impacts on nearby residents. Based on precise geographical coordinates, we link a representative longitudinal household panel to all wind turbines in Germany and exploit their staggered rollout over two decades for identification. We do not find evidence of negative effects on general, mental, ...
Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat einen Nachtragshaushalt der Bundesregierung für das Jahr 2021 für verfassungswidrig erklärt. Damals wurden ursprünglich für die Bekämpfung der Corona-Pandemie vorgesehene Mittel in Milliardenhöhe in einen Klima- und Transformationsfonds umgeschichtet. Anlässlich des soeben bekannt gewordenen Urteils äußert sich Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts...
Mehrzahl deutscher Unternehmen importiert Güter der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie aus einigen wenigen Bezugsländern – Politik strebt eine Verringerung von Abhängigkeiten an – Empirische Analysen zeigen, dass stärkere Diversifizierung nicht zulasten der Unternehmen geht Wenn deutsche Unternehmen Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) aus vielen verschiedenen Ländern beziehen, ...
The energy and climate crisis enhance the need for energy savings. In the building sector, these savings can be achieved primarily through thermal retrofitting. So far, progress in this area has been slow. To date, less than one percent of the residential building stock in Germany is retrofitted each year. The existing support programs alone offer too little reliability for the necessary...
The energy and climate crisis enhance the need for energy savings. In the building sector, these savings can be achieved primarily through thermal retrofitting. So far, progress in this area has been slow. To date, less than one percent of the residential building stock in Germany is retrofitted each year. The existing support programs alone offer too little reliability for the necessary investments ...
