This paper analyzes the impact of women's retirement on their informal care provision. Using SOEP data, we address fundamental endogeneity problems by exploiting variation in the German pension system in two complementary ways. We find a significant effect of retirement on informal care provision, when using early retirement age thresholds as instruments. Heterogeneity analyses confirm the underlying ...
The physical destructions, expropriations, resettlements, and interruptions of international trade during Second World War caused a sharp reduction of wealth levels and inequality in many countries (Piketty, 2014). In Germany, an estimated 20 percent of the West German housing stock was destroyed. This paper assesses whether the effects of this destruction are measurable in the...
This study assessed change in self-reported Big Five personality traits. We conducted a coordinated inte-grative data analysis using data from 16 longitudinal samples, comprising a total sample of over 60 000 participants.We coordinated models across multiple datasets and fit identical multi-level growth models to assess and compare theextent of trait change over time. Quadratic change was assessed ...
Das Deutsche Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin) gehört für vier weitere Jahre zum Kreis der Institute, die im Auftrag der Bundesregierung die sogenannte Gemeinschaftsdiagnose erstellen. Die entsprechende Bewerbung für die zweimal im Jahr erscheinende Konjunkturprognose führender Wirtschaftsforschungsinstitute war erfolgreich, wie das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium ...
