Abstract:I present evidence on the association between individuals' cognitive abilities, personality traits, and earnings in Poland. I find that cognitive skills and certain personality traits are complements. In particular, I find that cognitive skills and emotional stability are complementary, with neurotic individuals having significantly lower returns to their cognitive skills....
The recent debate on the causes and consequences of income inequality shows striking similarity to the debate in many parts of Europe before 1914. Today and back then the focus was on the role of capital share and market concentration as a cause for rising inequality. In this study we analyze the drivers and consequences of...
ForscherInnen des DIW Berlin, des Leibniz-Instituts für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation (DIPF) und der Universität Hamburg stellen Studien zu nichtmonetären Erträgen von Bildung vor. Dabei geht es um die Auswirkungen von Bildung in den Bereichen Gesundheit, nichtkognitive Fähigkeiten und politische Partizipation. Im Anschluss soll diskutiert werden, was diese...
Children's development is fostered by both high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings and high quality home learning environments. As we know little about the interrelations between these two environments, we examine whether the child's attendance in a high quality ECEC arrangement relates to the quality of her home learning environment. Using rich NICHD Study of Early Child Care ...
This paper studies whether higher education tuition fees influence the intention to acquire a university degree among high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We analyze the introduction and subsequent elimination of university tuition fees in Germany across states and over time in a difference-in-differences setting. Using data ...
Seit 2015 kann in Deutschland auf sogenannten angespannten Wohnungsmärkten eine Mietpreisbremse eingeführt werden. Was hat das Gesetz, das Mieterinnen und Mieter vor übermäßigen Mietpreissteigerungen schützen soll, gebracht? Wirkt es oder muss das Gesetz weiterentwickelt werden? Im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums der Justiz und für Verbraucherschutz (BMJV) hat Claus ...
Fairtrade certification aims at transferring wealth from the consumer to the farmer; however, coffee passes through many hands before reaching final consumers. Bringing together retail, wholesale, and stock market data, this study estimates how much more consumers are paying for Fairtrade-certified coffee in US supermarkets and finds estimates around $1 per lb. I then assess how this price premium ...
Ist Deutschland heute so ungleich wie vor hundert Jahren? Dieses Ergebnis von Ökonomin Charlotte Bartels zur langfristigen Entwicklung der Einkommensungleichheit in Deutschland wurde in der Öffentlichkeit kontrovers diskutiert. Ihre Studie ist Teil des groß angelegten internationalen Forschungsprojekts der World Inequality Database, die von einem Forscherteam um Anthony Atkinson,...