Congratulations to Adrian Santonja for receiving the doctoral scholarship from the DBU! Very well deserved!
Deutschlands verbliebene sechs Kernkraftwerke gehen in diesem und nächstem Jahr vom Netz – DIW-Studie untersucht energiewirtschaftliche Folgen – Energieversorgung bleibt sicher – Abschaltung ist zudem Bedingung für erfolgreiches Standortauswahlverfahren von Endlager Die Abschaltung der letzten Atommeiler in Deutschland führt nicht zu Versorgungsengpässen. Zu ...
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Alexander Kriwoluzky und Gökhan Ider ist am 06.12.2021 in der Frankfurter Rundschau erschienen. Ist das wirklich der Anfang vom Ende der Präsidentschaft von Erdogan? Die ökonomischen Zeichen stehen jedenfalls auf Sturm. Die türkische Lira verliert rapide an Kaufkraft: Die Inflation lag zuletzt bei 21 (!) Prozent. Angesichts der rasant steigenden Konsumentenpreise ...
This paper analyzes the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among subordinates on the establishment level using German Linked-Employer-Employee-Data. For identification of a causal effect we employ two estimation strategies: 1) a panel model with establishment fixed effects and 2) an event study estimation around a discrete shift in managerial representation. We find...
We develop and implement a new measure for inequality aversion: two peers are endowed with identical binary lotteries and the only choice they make is whether they want to play out the lotteries independently or with perfect positive correlation (coupling). Coupling has the core reason to prevent outcome inequality. We implement the method in a survey in rural Thailand as well as in a supplemental ...
Several vaccines against COVID-19 have now been developed and are already being rolled out around the world. The decision whether or not to get vaccinated has so far been left to the individual citizens. However, there are good reasons, both in theory as well as in practice, to believe that the willingness to get vaccinated might not be sufficiently high to achieve herd immunity. A policy of mandatory ...
Mobile money is an important instrument to improve the degree of financial inclusion, especially in developing countries. However, having a mobile money account does not imply that this account is actually used. In our sample, 86% of microentrepreneurs own a mobile money account, but only 49% actively use it – the resulting gap indicates unmet opportunities. We estimate that mobile money reaches up ...
In current immigration debates ethnic prejudice is often expressed in a subtle manner, which conceals its xenophobic content. However, previous research has only insufficiently examined the specific features that make certain ethnically prejudicial statements subtler, i.e., less readily identifiable as xenophobic, than others. The current study employs an experimental factorial survey design and assesses ...
