Die Ergebnisse der Europawahl am 26. Mai kommentiert DIW-Präsident Marcel Fratzscher wie folgt:
To internalize pollution externalities of municipal waste, Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) pricing schemes for unsorted waste are adopted worldwide. This paper estimates causal effects of PAYT on unsorted, recycling and total waste generation, and analyzes the determinants of policy adoption and compliance. The empirical strategy uses a multiple random forest approach on a unique six-year panel data...
Diese Dissertation analysiert die Auswirkungen von Rentenreformen auf Beschäftigung, Rentenalter, Alterseinkommen, Sparverhalten und Gesundheit. Dabei wird der Heterogenität der Effekte besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auf mögliche Folgen für die Ungleichheit hingewiesen. Die Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten. In der ersten Studie werden die Auswirkungen einer Erhöhung ...
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via aquantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatmenthas, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar toeducational interventions in other domains. Additionally, we document small but still significanteffects on financial ...
In the last years, there has been a shift from traditional measurements of affective well-being to approaches such as the day reconstruction method (DRM). While the traditional approaches often assess trait level differences in well-being, the DRM allows examining affective dynamics in everyday contexts. The latter may ultimately explain why some people feel more happy than others (e.g., because they ...
This paper analyzes the effect of a recently introduced policy reform on participation in integration courses and on certified language proficiency levels among refugees in Germany. The residence rule restricts initial residence for refugees with a permanent residence permit. Given that treatment intensity varies distinctly across states, I utilize this quasi-experiment and apply a difference-in-differences ...
