Over the course of a decade, Mexico transitioned from a peak of 1.8% of GDP given as fuel subsidies in 2008 to generating positive fuel tax revenues equivalent to 1.6% of its GDP in 2018. This paper analyzes Mexico's carbon pricing experience: the mechanisms that made fossil fuel subsidies such a large burden on public finances, the strategies followed in its five-year phase-out, and the institutional ...
Im August ist die Inflationsrate auf 7,9 Prozent gestiegen, wie das Statistische Bundesamt heute bekanntgegeben hat. Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW Berlin), erklärt dazu:
Background: Previous research suggests that romantic relationships play a crucial role for perceived control. However, we know surprisingly little about changes in perceived control before and after the end of romantic relationships. Methods: Based on data from the Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), a nationally representative household panel study from Germany, we examined changes of perceived control ...
Although everyone would agree that bereavement is extremely stressful, surprisingly little is known about changes in different facets of affective well-being in the years surrounding the death of a loved one. On the basis of the Socio-Economic Panel Study, we examined changes in cognitive well-being (life satisfaction) and different facets of affective well-being (happiness, sadness, anxiety, and anger) ...
Der Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung äußert sich zu den sozialen Folgen der Energiekrise und hinterfragt die Ausgestaltung und Wirksamkeit der Entlastungspakete. Weitere Gäste: Politiker Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Journalistin Anja Maier, Ökonom Marcel Fratzscher und Journalistin Kathrin Witsch . Die Sendung kann in der ZDF-Mediathek angesehen werden.
We introduce a selection model-based imputation approach to be used within the Fully Conditional Specification (FCS) framework for the Multiple Imputation (MI) of incomplete ordinal variables that are supposed to be Missing Not at Random (MNAR). Thereby, we generalise previous work on this topic which involved binary single-level and multilevel data to ordinal variables. We apply an ordered probit ...
More than 950,000 refugees from Ukraine have sought protection in Germany since the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022. The project “Refugees from Ukraine in Germany” is the first com-prehensive, representative social science survey of this group. It is being conducted by the SOEP in partnership with the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) of the Federal Employment Agency (BA), the ...
