Der Beitrag erschien in der WELT. Die Senkung der Spritpreise, wie sie die Ampel plant, nützt vor allem: den Wohlhabenden. So fällt die FDP wieder in alte Muster der Klientelpolitik zurück, wie einst mit der Hotel-Steuer. Ausgerechnet bei den Grünen funktioniert der ordnungspolitische Kompass derzeit besser. „Wer sich nicht seiner Vergangenheit erinnert, ist erurteilt, sie zu wiederholen“, sagte ...
The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) serves a global research community by providing representative annual longitudinal data of private households in Germany. The sample provides a detailed life course perspective based on a rich collection of information about living conditions, socio-economic status, family relationships, personality, values, preferences, and health. We collected genetic data from ...
This is the first paper to examine experimentally effects of information provision on beliefs about pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of postgraduate education, enrolment intentions and realized enrolment. We find that our treatment causally affects beliefs measured six months after treatment. The effects on beliefs differ by gender and academic background, and we find that stated enrolment intentions ...
Very wealthy people influence political and societal processes by wielding their economic power through foundations, lobbying groups, media campaigns, as investors and employers. Because personality shapes goals, attitudes, and behaviour, it is important to understand the personality traits that characterize the rich. We used representative survey data to construct two large samples, one from the general ...
