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Schooling and Self-Control

While there is an established positive relationship between self-control and education, the direction of causality remains a matter of debate. We make a contribution to resolving this issue by exploiting a series of Australian and German educational reforms that increased minimum education requirements as a source of exogenous variation in education levels. Instrumental variables estimates suggest ...

Distributional Effects of Macroeconomic Policies in Europe

Political measures at the level of the European Union are intended, among other things, to ensure the stability of the economic and monetary union. This includes, for example, the establishment of the European Recovery Fund, which can be a first step towards a fiscal union in the Eurozone. The project examines how these, and other economic policy measures affect inequality between households. The...

The Cost of Fair Pay: How Child Care Work Wages Affect Formal Child Care Hours, Informal Child Care Hours, and Employment Hours

The debate on the effects of child care policies on household and individual behavior is substantial but lacks a discussion of the unintended consequences of rising wages in the child care work sector. To address this gap in the debate, the relation between rising pay and formal child care hours, informal child care hours, and employment hours is analyzed empirically with a case study on child care ...

Supplementary indicators towards climate targets

In the lead up to COP28, particularly with the global stock take underway, it becomes important to consider additional indicators and targets toward the achievement of an inclusive transition to climate neutrality. We would like to discuss, if this could deliver a set of benefits: First, many climate targets only monitor broad sectoral level emission reductions. They focus on the political...

Policy options to enhance circularity

The European Union’s Circular Economy Action Plan (2020) introduced initiatives to establish a coherent product policy framework focusing on the entire life cycle of products. This Action Plan targets regulations on product design to promote circular economy processes and reduce of waste creation. Together with the subsequent Sustainable Product Regulation and further revisions of regulations on...

Dennis Gaus has successfully defended his dissertation

Dennis Gaus, who works at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Dresden. The dissertation with the title "Highway Infrastructure and its Maintenance: Economic Effects on Regions and Firms in Germany" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte and Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann. We congratulate Dennis on his success ...

Dennis Gaus has successfully defended his dissertation

Dennis Gaus, who works at the Energy, Transportation, Environment department, has successfully defended his dissertation at Technische Universität Dresden. The dissertation with the title "Highway Infrastructure and its Maintenance: Economic Effects on Regions and Firms in Germany" was supervised by Prof. Dr. Georg Hirte and Prof. Dr. Christian Leßmann. We congratulate Dennis on his success ...

SOEP-Core v38.1 – HPATHL: Household-Related Meta-Dataset

Ökonomische Indikatoren von Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz – Materialien Berichtsjahr 2023: Investitionen, Produktion und Beschäftigung in ausgewählten Bereichen

In diesem Bericht werden Ergebnisse bis zum Berichtsjahr 2021 für Indikatoren Energieeffizienzinvestitionen, Bruttoproduktion, Beschäftigung sowie Umsätze mit Gütern und Dienstleistungen, die der Verbesserung der Energieeffizienz dienen, betrachtet. Schwerpunkte sind Maßnahmen zur Steigerung der Energieeffizienz im Gebäudebestand und im Produzierenden Gewerbe, Energieeffizienzdienstleistungen sowie ...

Partial Identification of Heteroskedastic Structural VARs: Theory and Bayesian Inference

We consider structural vector autoregressions identified through stochastic volatility. Our focus is on whether a particular structural shock is identified by heteroskedasticity without the need to impose any sign or exclusion restrictions. Three contributions emerge from our exercise: (i) a set of conditions under which the matrix containing structural parameters is partially or globally unique; (ii) ...