Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: “Long-term effects of civic education on political participation in East Germany”. Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.
Der englische Originaltitel des Seminars lautet: “Who stays? Tracking ultra-long-time participants in the SOEP”. Die Präsentation findet auf Englisch statt.
Presentation of the work on the project
Vorstellung der Projektarbeit
So far energy system models only consider labour markets ex-post to showcase the employment possibilities which a energy transformation can provide. Given the demographic changes in Europe, labour markets will decrease and continue to create scarcities in some sectors. In future, labour markets could become a bottleneck for the transformation and determine its shape and speed. To account for that,...
Standard IAMs typically use CRRA welfare, where a single curvature parameter jointly governs intergenerational weighting and interregional equity, so comparative statics in “inequality aversion” necessarily change discounting. I implement Fehr–Schmidt (FS) inequality aversion in the RICE model to separate directional interregional equity (envy and guilt) from intergenerational weighting, with an...
We study the political consequences of energy price shocks for households, using electricity price increases in Germany during the 2022-2023 energy price crisis as an example. Building on original four wave panel survey data, we exploit plausibly exogenous and staggered variation in timing of electricity instalment increases generated by the German billing system. We find that higher...
