Im Rahmen des ERC Consolidator Grant WEALTHTRAJECT wird Philipp Lersch in den nächsten fünf Jahren neue Wege in der Vermögensforschung beschreiten und den Schwerpunkt im SOEP weiter ausbauen. WEALTHTRAJECT ist das erste Projekt, das die Vielfalt in langfristigen Vermögensverläufen innerhalb und zwischen sozialen Gruppen umfassend und systematisch untersucht. Ausgangspunkt des Projekts, das im...
As part of the ERC Consolidator Grant WEALTHTRAJECT, Philipp Lersch will break new ground in wealth research over the next five years, and further expand the range of high quality data collection by SOEP. WEALTHTRAJECT is the first project to comprehensively and systematically investigate diversity in long-term wealth trajectories within and between social groups. The starting point of the...
This paper provides the most comprehensive assessment of how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities with a quasi-experimental evaluation of the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Leveraging multiple causal inference methods, we compare carbon and air pollutant emissions of the actual and counterfactual German transport sector following the 1999 eco-tax reform and demonstrate ...
The number of women serving on the executive boards of large companies in Germany once again increased in 2023: Around 18 percent (153 of 875) of executive board members at the 200 largest companies were women as of late fall 2023, two percentage points higher than in 2022. Thus, growth has slightly picked up again. In some of the groups of companies analyzed, the figure was even higher. Around 23 ...
