Der Ökonom Claus Michelsen leitet künftig die Abteilung Konjunkturpolitik am Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin). Er wurde vom Kuratorium des DIW Berlin berufen und wird die Verantwortung für die Konjunkturarbeit des Instituts erstmalig mit der DIW-Herbstprognose 2018 übernehmen. Michelsen gehört der Abteilung Konjunkturpolitik seit 2013 als wissenschaftlicher ...
The behavioral sciences, including most of psychology, seek to explain and predict behavior with the help of theories and models that involve concepts (e.g., attitudes) that are subsequently translated into measures. Currently, some subdisciplines such as social psychology focus almost exclusively on measures that demand reflection or even introspection when administered to persons. We argue that such ...
This paper studies the role of paternal risk attitudes in sons’ long-run education outcomes and in the intergenerational transmission of incomes and education. Based on 1984–2012 German Socio-Economic Panel Study data of sons and fathers, I show that fathers’ risk aversion is inversely related to sons’ long-run levels of education. I find signs that sons with risk averse fathers experience lower educational ...
Die Stromerzeugung aus Braun- und Steinkohle war im Jahr 2016 für mehr als ein Viertel der deutschen Treibhausgas- Emissionen verantwortlich. Unter den Bundesländern ist Nordrhein-Westfalen der mit Abstand größte CO2-Emittent. Um die nationalen Klimaziele zu erreichen, werden daher gegenwärtig alternative Kohleausstiegspfade diskutiert, unter anderem in der Kommission „Wachstum, Strukturwandel und ...
Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on ...
The use of video recordings in experimental economics has become increasingly popular. However, little attention is paid to how this might affect the composition of the participating subjects and the intended treatment effect. We make a first attempt to shed light on these issues and address them in an incentivized face-to-face tax compliance experiment. The experiment contains two dimensions; i) the ...
