Home visiting programmes are increasingly being implemented across the globe to help vulnerable families with young children, however longer-term experimental evidence on their health impacts on both parents and children is scarce. In this paper we study the medium-term health impacts of a randomized control trial to evaluate the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), one of the oldest home visitation...
Short-term electricity markets are key to an efficient production by generation units. We develop a two-period model to assess different bidding formats to determine for each bidding format the optimal bidding strategy of competitive generators facing price-uncertainty. We compare the results for simple bidding, block bidding and multi-part bidding. We find that even under optimal simple and block ...
Objective This study examines fairness perceptions of experimentally manipulated savings arrangements in couples (i.e., distribution of control and ownership of savings) to identify distributive justice principles in marriage.Background Theoretically, competing norms about individual ownership rights and autonomy (equity principle) and marital sharing (equality principle) in interaction with gender ...
Die Zustimmungswerte für die Bundesregierung und die Landesregierungen sind in der Corona-Krise gestiegen. Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Chance für die Demokratie. Deutschland hat in den vergangenen vier Monaten die schwerste Krise seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg durchlebt. Knapp 200.000 Menschen haben sich mit dem Coronavirus nachweislich infiziert, fast 10.000 sind bisher daran gestorben. Die ...
Dieser Gastbeitrag von Shan Huang erschien am 11. Juli 2020 in der Frankfurter Rundschau. „The Great Equalizer“ – als den „großen Gleichmacher“ hatte unter anderem der New Yorker Gouverneur Andrew Cuomo das Coronavirus zu Anfang der Pandemie bezeichnet. Mittlerweile ist deutlich geworden, dass das Gegenteil der Fall ist: Gerade Menschen mit einem schlechteren sozioökonomischen ...
We analyse the political economy of the public provision of private goods when individuals care about their social status. Status concerns motivate richer individuals to vote for the public provision of goods they themselves buy in markets: a higher provision level attracts more individuals to the public sector, enhancing the social exclusivity of market purchases. Majority voting may lead to a public ...
Why has the college wage premium risen rapidly in the United States since the 1980s, but not in European economies such as Germany? We argue that differences in employment protection can account for much of the gap. We develop a model in which firms and workers make relationship-specific investments in skill accumulation. The incentive to invest is stronger when employment protection creates an expectation ...
Against the backdrop of soaring wealth inequalities in older age, this research addresses the relationship between increasingly diverse family life courses and widening wealth differences between individuals as they age. We holistically examined how childbearing and marital histories matter for West German baby boomer cohorts’ personal wealth at ages 51 to 59. We proposed that wealth penalties associated ...
