DIW president Marcel Fratzscher comments today's announcements by the ECB as follows:
This study tests the prediction that a corrupt government reduces ethical behavior among its citizens. We integrate a standard "cheating" experiment into a broad household survey and find clear support for this prediction: respondents who perceive corruption in state affairs are more likely to cheat. Interestingly, there is a small group of non-conformers. The main relation is robust to consideration ...
We study how different network targeting mechanisms affect the direct and spillover impacts of a school-based health intervention in Zambia. Across 133 schools, we randomly assigned whether the intervention was administered to i) a random selection of students; ii) most central students; or iii) most central students and an additional friend. Our results indicate that the two-hour intervention had...
Economic and social transformation of China during the past 40 years is without precedent in human history. While the economic transformation was extensively studied, social transformation was not. In this paper, we use for the first time harmonized household surveys covering the period 1988-2013 to study the changes in the characteristics the richest 5 percent of China’s urban population....
Die „Erzbergerschen Steuer- und Finanzreformen“ 1919/20 haben die Steuern und öffentlichen Finanzen in Deutschland nahezu vollständig umgestaltet und modernisiert. Diese Reformen prägen unser Steuersystem bis heute. DIW-Steuerexperte Dr. Stefan Bach stellt die Überblicksstudie zum Thema 100 Jahre deutsches Steuersystem vor. Dabei zeigt er die wesentlichen...
