Selten war ein Jahresausblick mit so viel Unsicherheit behaftet wie jetzt. Selten standen aber die Chancen für einen politischen und wirtschaftlichen Neustart so gut. Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmals am 1. Januar 2022 bei Zeit Online in der Reihe Fratzschers Verteilungsfragen. Mitten in der vierten Welle der Pandemie und mit dem Anstieg der Omikron-Variante schauen viele mit Sorge und Angst auf ...
Several studies have suggested that the rank-order stability of personality increases until midlife and declines later in old age. However, this inverted U-shaped pattern has not consistently emerged in previous research; in particular, a recent investigation implementing several methodological advances failed to support it. To resolve the matter, we analyzed data from two representative panel studies ...
Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and affect poverty assessments and poverty lines. We address the disadvantage that poor households may suffer due to their reduced ability to share goods within the household. This disadvantage is important to estimate and embed in standard analysis, as it seems to have a substantial quantitative ...
Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since 2010s, it has been experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing housing shortage are desperately looking for solutions of the chronic housing shortage and direct their attention to controlling housing rents and to other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it create ...
Rent control is a highly debated social policy that has been omnipresent since World War I. Since 2010s, it has been experiencing a true renaissance, for many cities and countries facing housing shortage are desperately looking for solutions of the chronic housing shortage and direct their attention to controlling housing rents and to other restrictive policies. Is rent control useful or does it...
Credit decisions play an important role for the economic wellbeing of households. However, the complexity of products and varying price information display makes it hard for consumers to navigate this field. Empirical evidence has important implications for consumer protection policies, as many people fail to make optimal choices for themselves and struggle to understand credit cost information....
Das Auftreten des Sars-CoV-2-Virus (inzwischen unter der Bezeichnung „Coronavirus“ bekannt) hat die globale Wirtschaft empfindlich in Unordnung gebracht. Es stellt einen geradezu lehrbuchmäßigen exogenen Schock dar, den die ökonomischen Akteure nunmehr als bis dato unbekannte Nebenbedingung in ihren individuellen Plänen berücksichtigen sollten. Folgerichtig ...
The German Socio-Economic Panel Study is a representative panel study for the German population, collecting data on a broad variety of topics of everyday life, including general wellbeing, household composition, educational aspirations and educational status, income and occupational biographies, leisure time activities, housing, health, political orientation and more. With its long running panel...
