This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany). Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the female income share is 26.9 percentage ...
We study the multifaceted effects and persistence of trade policy shocks on financial markets in a structural vector autoregression. The model is identified via event day heteroskedasticity. We find that restrictive US trade policy shocks affect US and international stock prices heterogeneously, but generally negatively, increasing market uncertainty, lowering interest rates, and leading to an appreciation ...
Wie kann internationale öffentliche Klimafinanzierung gestaltet werden, um die Klimapolitik von Partnerländern effektiv zu unterstützen? Das auf vier Jahre angelegte Projekt der Abteilung Klimapolitik beleuchtet wirksame Schritte zum Erreichen der Pariser Klimaziele in Zusammenarbeit mit vier weiteren Forschungseinrichtungen in Brasilien, Indien, Indonesien und Südafrika. Am Beispiel ...
How can international public climate finance effectively support climate policy of partner countries? The four-year project of the Climate Policy Department sheds light on effective steps to achieve the Paris climate goals in cooperation with four other research institutes in Brazil, India, Indonesia, and South Africa. DIW Berlin examines in a new study how international public climate finance (ICF) ...
