We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by economic, political, and institutional variables. Our approach leans on a positive analysis to study the determinants ...
Adequate hydration is essential for health, with even mild forms of dehydration often having negative effects on cognition and well-being. Despite evidence of higher risk for dehydration among older adults, links between dehydration and cognitive or well-being outcomes have not been established in old age. In this study, we used longitudinal data from the Berlin Aging Study II (age range 60–89) to ...
Based on findings from high-income countries, typically economists hypothesize that having more children unambiguously decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a positive effect of an instrument-induced ...
The European Commission currently revises its regulation of selection of and support to so-called Trans-European Networks in the energy sector (TEN-E). Currently, the European Union still provides support to fossil natural gas infrastructure that were selected as so-called Projects of Common Interest (PCI) without sufficiently taking into account the long-term climate targets. In the research project ...
Die Europäische Kommission überarbeitet derzeit die Regulierung zur Auswahl und Förderung sogenannter Transeuropäischer Netze im Energiebereich (TEN-E). Kritisch ist dabei, dass derzeit noch Infrastruktur für fossiles Erdgas Förderung als sog. Projekt von Gemeinsamen Interesse (PCI) bekommt, ohne dass dabei die langfristigen Klimaschutzziele ausreichend berücksichtigt ...
Neue Zusatzstichprobe des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) schließt Datenlücke im Bereich hoher Vermögen – Reichstes Prozent der Bevölkerung vereint rund 35 statt knapp 22 Prozent des individuellen Nettovermögens auf sich – In Gruppe der MillionärInnen sind überdurchschnittlich oft Männer, die älter, besser gebildet und zufriedener sind – ...
