Der Energieverbrauch in Deutschland wird in diesem Jahr deutlich sinken. Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (AGEB), an der auch das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) beteiligt ist, schätzt auf Grundlage der Berechnungen für die ersten neun Monate einen Rückgang für das Jahr 2020 um sieben Prozent. Die energiebedingten CO2-Emissionen werden damit - ...
This document provides a minimal, generic checklist that developers of software (either open or closed source) used in research can use to ensure they are following good practice around software citation. This will help developers get credit for the software they create, and improve transparency, reproducibility, and reuse.
This presentation provides a high level overview of the EU's Copernicus project and the possible use of of a national data cube to provide a geo-spatial and geo-temporal infrstructure to aid and accelerate research in geo-science, catering for the growth in high volume data sets.
Wie wirken sich Kita-Gebührenabschaffungen auf das Arbeitsangebot von Eltern aus? Mathias Huebener, Astrid Pape und C. Katharina Spieß gehen in dem wissenschaftlichen Aufsatz "Parental Labour Supply Responses to the Abolition of Day Care Fees" dieser Frage nach und untersuchen den Effekt von Kita-Gebührenabschaffungen in Deutschland. Verschiedene Bundesländer haben in den vergangenen ...
The aim of this study is to analyze and assess the impact of institutional factors on political trust in various levels of government (federal, regional and local) in modern Russia. Data and methods. The study is based on microdata from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) “Life in Transition Survey” (LiTS). We examined such institutional factors of political trust as perceived ...
We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in Uganda. The treatments contrast "active learning" with "traditional lecturing" within standardized lesson-plans. We find that active learning has a positive and economically meaningful impact on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to insignificant impacts ...
Labor markets in low- and middle-income countries are characterized by high levels of informality. A multitude of interventions have been implemented to increase the formalization of firms and workers, including information campaigns, simplified registration procedures, reductions of payroll taxes, and interventions enforcing formalization. We compile a database of 170 impact estimates from 38 academic ...
