Personen mit Vermögen in Millionenhöhe waren bislang in Bevölkerungsbefragungen kaum vertreten – entsprechend wenig wusste man über sie. Auch blieb das exakte Ausmaß der Vermögenskonzentration unklar. Das Sozio-oekonomische Panel (SOEP) hat nun eine Spezialstichprobe integriert, in der Menschen mit hohen Vermögen stark überrepräsentiert sind, um die bisherige Datenlücke zu schließen. Neue Berechnungen ...
Home visiting programmes are increasingly being implemented across the globe to help vulnerable families with young children, however longer-term experimental evidence on their health impacts on both parents and children is scarce. In this paper we study the medium-term health impacts of a randomized control trial to evaluate the Nurse Family Partnership (NFP), one of the oldest home visitation...
Short-term electricity markets are key to an efficient production by generation units. We develop a two-period model to assess different bidding formats to determine for each bidding format the optimal bidding strategy of competitive generators facing price-uncertainty. We compare the results for simple bidding, block bidding and multi-part bidding. We find that even under optimal simple and block ...
Objective This study examines fairness perceptions of experimentally manipulated savings arrangements in couples (i.e., distribution of control and ownership of savings) to identify distributive justice principles in marriage.Background Theoretically, competing norms about individual ownership rights and autonomy (equity principle) and marital sharing (equality principle) in interaction with gender ...
Die Zustimmungswerte für die Bundesregierung und die Landesregierungen sind in der Corona-Krise gestiegen. Die Corona-Pandemie ist eine Chance für die Demokratie. Deutschland hat in den vergangenen vier Monaten die schwerste Krise seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg durchlebt. Knapp 200.000 Menschen haben sich mit dem Coronavirus nachweislich infiziert, fast 10.000 sind bisher daran gestorben. Die ...
The European Green Deal, initiated by the EU Commission, is a package of measures aimed at decarbonization and sustainable economic development with the goal of making the European Union climate neutral by 2050. To achieve this goal, the emission reductions target must be increased from 40 percent to 65 percent compared to 1990 levels, as the model calculations in this Weekly Report show. Fossil and ...
