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SOEPpapers 1118 / 2021
Previous work has shown that preferences are not always stable across time, but surprisingly little is known about the reasons for this instability. I examine whether variation in people’s emotions over time predicts changes in risk attitudes. Using a large panel data set, I identify happiness, anger, and fear as significant correlates of within-person changes in risk attitudes. Robustness checks indicate ...
2021| Armando N. Meier
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Personalie
Nedim Okan died on May 24, 2021, in Istanbul at the age of 31. Nedim was a doctoral student in the 2019 cohort at the BSE. After successfully completing his coursework at the DIW GC, he joined the WZB for his research phase. We are all overwhelmed by this terrible loss. Our thoughts are with his wife, his family and his friends.
If you would like to have a personal conversation, you can contact the ...
07.06.2021
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Personalie
Nedim Okan died on May 24, 2021, in Istanbul at the age of 31. Nedim was a doctoral student in the 2019 cohort at the BSE. After successfully completing his coursework at the DIW GC, he joined the WZB for his research phase. We are all overwhelmed by this terrible loss. Our thoughts are with his wife, his family and his friends.
If you would like to have a personal conversation, you can contact the ...
07.06.2021
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Publikation
Welche Folgen hat die Corona-Krise für die Anwartschaften an die gesetzliche Rentenversicherung? Dieser Frage ist Johannes Geyer, stellvertretender Leiter der Abteilung Staat am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) in einer aktuellen Studie nachgegangen. Sie basiert auf Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) am DIW Berlin und wurde von der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung ...
07.06.2021| Johannes Geyer
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DIW Discussion Papers 1950 / 2021
This paper examines the effect of reduced self-control on impulsive borrowing in a laboratory experiment. We manipulate self-control using an ego depletion task and show that it is effective. Following the ego depletion task, participants can anonymously buy hot drinks on credit. We find no significant average effects, but find that treated individuals that have low financial literacy are more likely ...
2021| Antonia Grohmann, Jana Hamdan
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Statement
Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat Deutschland wegen zu hoher Stickoxidwerte in Städten verurteilt. Dazu ein Statement von Claudia Kemfert, Energieökonomin und Leiterin der Abteilung Energie, Verkehr, Umwelt am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin):
03.06.2021| Claudia Kemfert
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Interaktive Grafik
Die Mietbelastungsquote ist das prozentuale Verhältnis zwischen der monatlichen Kaltmiete und dem lokalen durchschnittlichen Monatslohn (nach Steuern). Für eine Zweizimmerwohnung (ein Schlafzimmer) wird nur ein Nettolohn, für die Vierzimmerwohnung (drei Schlafzimmer) werden hingegen zwei durchschnittliche Nettolöhne angenommen. Dabei wird unterstellt, dass die Haushalte in den kleinen ...
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Externe Working Papers
The job polarization hypothesis suggests a U-shaped pattern of employment growth along the earnings/skill distribution, which is driven by simultaneous growth in the employment of high-skill/high-earnings and low-skill/low-earnings occupations due to Routine-Biased Technological Change (RBTC) [Acemoglu and Autor, 2011]. An aspect of both high social and political relevance is the implications of job ...
Luxembourg:
LIS Data Center,
2020,
ca. 112 S.
(LIS Working Paper Series ; 796)
| Maximilian Longmuir, Carsten Schröder, Matteo Targa
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
By setting near-zero-emission requirements for the production of certain products to be sold on the European single market (product carbon requirements, PCRs), the European Union could accelerate the phase-out of carbon-intensive production processes.The announcement of such requirements would send a signal to producers,financing institutions and other relevant stakeholders, thus incentivizing them ...
In:
Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
30 (2021), 2, S. 249-262
| Timo Gerres, Manuel Haussner, Karsten Neuhoff, Alice Pirlot
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Referierte Aufsätze Web of Science
Publishing entrepreneurship research is not just important but challenging. Longstanding experts in the field can provide helpful advice. As borders between academic fields blur, research fields are increasingly global in their perspective, knowledge, and findings, thus enabling robust participation in research fields at a scale previously unimaginable. Drawing on the experience, insights, and perspectives ...
In:
Small Business Economics
58 (2022), 1, S. 1-5
| David B. Audretsch, Christina Guenther, Adam Lederer