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 ...
Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 – in Germany by about 25%. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
