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 ...
This is an online seminar using Cisco Webex. You will receive the login data with the invitation to the talk. Abstract: The tracking of online user behavior is considered essential for the construction of consumer profiles, which help platforms monetize their services. Prominent examples are advertising in online search or social media, but also online retailing in which matching...
We study the role of financial literacy for inter-temporal decision-making using an adapted version of the Convex Time Budget Protocol (Andreoni and Sprenger 2012). While we find no evidence of dynamically inconsistent preferences in the aggregate, we document substantial heterogeneity in choice-patterns and estimated parameters at the individual-level: We find that subjects with higher levels of financial ...
Dass Trump mit einigen Vorwürfen recht hatte, können die Europäer gegenüber Joe Biden als US-Präsident nicht mehr leugnen. Nun sollten sie ein transatlantisches Freihandelsabkommen vorantreiben – auch um Chinas Macht zu begrenzen. Die Fehler von TTIP müssen dabei korrigiert werden. Dieser Beitrag ist am 8. November 2020 bei WELT online erschienen. Die Wahl von ...
