Populist parties increasingly deploy narratives of social injustice to portray climate policy as elitist and unfair. This paper investigates how such narratives affect public attitudes toward populism and democratic institutions. We conduct a survey experiment with approximately 1,600 respondents in Germany, exposing participants to three common narratives about the distributional costs of climate ...
The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. Moreover, the decline goes decades back in the histories of rich countries. Birthrates have been below replacement in the U.S. and Europe since the mid-1970s, although further declines occurred after the Great Recession. The reasons for the declines from the 1970s to the early 2000s involve greater female autonomy and a mismatch between the...
Doch der Weg ist lang. Mit ihrer Milliardenbuße gegen Google hat die EU-Kommission ein Zeichen gesetzt: Europa ist entschlossen, seine Wettbewerbsregeln konsequent durchzusetzen. Dies ist ein wichtiger Schritt in die richtige Richtung, wird jedoch allein nicht ausreichen. Nun müssen auch wirksame Lösungen für die strukturellen Probleme des Marktes gefunden werden – mehr als es etwa im jüngsten US-Urteil ...
Many high-income economies strive to integrate recently immigrated refugees and asylum-seekers into their labor markets. We contribute to the discussion of relevant policy tools and use rich survey data that are matched to precise administrative records on refugee immigrants to Germany. We study the impact of occupational recognition decisions on refugee outcomes. Applying a difference-in...
Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: “Occupational recognition of refugees: Effects on labor market outcomes, remittances, and life satisfaction”. Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt. Eine kurze Zusammenfassung zum Vortrag ist nur auf der englischen Veranstaltungsseite verfügbar!
This paper investigates the long-run consequences of a later school entry for personality traits. For identification, we exploit the statutory cutoff rules for school enrollment in Germany within a regression discontinuity design. We find that relatively older school starters have persistently lower levels of neuroticism in adulthood. This effect is entirely driven by women, which has important...
Populist parties use narratives about social injustice to portray climate policy as elite-driven and socially unjust. This study— based on a survey experiment with some 1,600 participants— examines how three common narratives about the costs associated with climate policy affect populist and climate-populist attitudes. The results show that the narrative highlighting the disproportionate burden on ...
As part of their research on socio-ecological transformation (SET), researchers from various departments at DIW Berlin are examining the risks, costs, and benefits of this transformation for private households, businesses, and government actors in Germany and Europe. Building on the institute's previous focus areas, DIW Berlin researchers are particularly interested in economic and social science issues ...
