In dieser Folge schauen wir uns verschiedene Ziele der Ampel-Regierung im Bereich der Elektromobilität näher an und diskutieren, ob wir auf dem richtigen Weg zum Erreichen dieser Ziele sind. Dabei erklären wir auch, welche Arten von elektrischen Fahrzeugen es gibt, welche Rolle Brennstoffzellenfahrzeuge bei Pkw spielen und wie Elektrofahrzeuge gefördert werden. Kapitelmarken 00:53 Über den...
This paper studies whether individuals that experienced parental unemployment during their childhood/early adolescence have poorer health once they reach the adulthood. We used data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 2002 until 2018. Our identification strategy of the causal effect of parental unemployment relied on plant closures as exogenous variation of the individual labor market condition. ...
Bosch-Domènech et al. (2014) reported a negative association between 2D:4D, a suggested marker of prenatal testosterone exposure, and the Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) in a sample of 623 university students. In this pre-registered study, we test if we can replicate their findings in a general population sample of over 2,500 individuals from Germany. We find no statistically significant association ...
Following a landmark court ruling in 2005, more than half of Germany’s universities started charging tuition fees, which were later abolished in a staggered manner. We exploit the fact that even students who were already enrolled had to start paying fees. We show that fees increase study effort and degree completion among these students. However, fees also decrease first-time university enrollment ...
Soll Deutschland die Vier-Tage-Woche einführen? Diese Frage sorgt vor allem bei Arbeitgebern für Irritation: sie plädieren für mehr "Bock auf Arbeit" und eine Erhöhung der Wochenarbeitszeit. Auf der anderen Seite weisen Politikerinnen und manche Vertreter der Gewerkschaften auf die Vorteile einer kürzeren Arbeitszeit hin – auch für Unternehmen. Diese Diskussion ist wichtig und wegweisend in Zeiten ...
We examine changes in the well-being of family caregivers during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany, using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and the SOEP-CoV study. The COVID-19 pandemic posed an extraordinary challenge for family caregivers, as care recipients are a high-risk group requiring special protection, and professional care services were severely cut back. ...
The course provides participants with the tools to develop and analyze business cycle models with heterogenous agents. This class of models has become the new standard in the business cycle literature and allows to analyze the interaction of the business cycle and the distribution of consumption, income, and wealth. The focus of the course is on numerical methods. Coding exercises in class are an...
Objectives Students will study models of transitions and durations, and learn how to estimate these using realworld data. Outline This course is an introduction to modelling transitions into a state of interest (such as the transition into employment from unemployment) and durations (such as unemployment, survival of patients after medical treatment or firms after a financial crash). We...
