-- joint with Panu Poutvaara and Max Steinhardt This study analyzes the determinants of bitterness, which describes a feeling of not having achieved what one deserves compared to others. First, we perform pooled OLS and fixed effects regressions, showing that bitterness is associated with various economic and non-economic factors, whereby the effect of unemployment stands out. Therefore, in the...
-- joint with Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party in state...
-- joint with Marius Liebald and Guido Friebel Can right-wing terrorism increase support for far-right populist parties, and if so, why? Exploiting quasi-random variation between successful and failed attacks across German municipalities, we find that successful attacks lead to significant increases in the vote share for the right-wing, populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party. Our...
Pension funds carry implications on citizens wellbeing in their retirement years and countries’ growths, rendering changes to them following natural disasters of great importance. Using administrative data that comprises a 10 percent random sample of the Australian population and a natural experimental design, we investigate the effects of natural disasters on retirement savings in the aftermath...
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joint with Alexander Schmidt-Catran, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt This study analyses the impact of a high-profile crime event on perceived public safety. At the 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne (NYE), Germany, refugees allegedly committed thousands of crimes, ranging from theft to sexual assault. The widespread media coverage of these incidents has made a shift in the publics’...
The ongoing replicability and reproducibility crisis in the social sciences has revealed the importance of transparency, replications, and good scientific practice in the field of economics. But replication studies are scarce, innovations in these areas have not been sufficiently tested and scientific practices vary among researchers. Household panel studies offer a lot to behavioral economists...
Heute ist der neue Podcast des DIW Berlin "fossilfrei – Der Ampel-Monitor Energiewende" gestartet. Alexander Roth und Wolf-Peter Schill sprechen untereinander und mit Gästen über die Fortschritte beim Erreichen der Ziele, die sich die Ampelkoalition hinsichtlich Erneuerbarer Energien gesetzt hat. Das politische Zieldreieck besteht aus den Klimazielen, der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit und der Umweltfreundlichkeit ...
In dieser Folge stellen wir zunächst uns selbst, den Ampel-Monitor Energiewende und den Podcast fossilfrei kurz vor. Danach schauen wir uns verschiedene Ziele der Ampel-Regierung in den Bereichen erneuerbarer Strom und erneuerbare Wärme genauer an und diskutieren, ob wir auf dem richtigen Weg zum Erreichen dieser Ziele sind. Kapitelmarken 0:55 Über diesen Podcast 2:29 Ziele der Energiewende 4:...
