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) ...
This paper investigates the role of work experience in migrant mothers’ current employment in Germany. Unlike previous papers, we focus on actual experience and add the motherhood aspect. To this end, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel 2013-2018 including the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample. Having immigrated to Germany and female sex are the two treatments of our sample of 491 migrant mothers, ...
Die Jungen schultern die Renten der Alten – und blicken in eine sorgenvolle Zukunft. Dabei kann eine Reform zu mehr Gerechtigkeit zwischen den Generationen führen. Es besteht ein breiter Konsens, dass der Schutz von Klima und Umwelt zentral für Generationengerechtigkeit ist. Ähnliches gilt aber auch für einen anderen Aspekt: die Rente. Niemand kann mittlerweile mehr leugnen, ...
ObjectivesPerceptions of time are shaped by sociohistorical factors. Specifically, economic growth and modernization often engender a sense of acceleration. Research has primarily focused on one time perception dimension (perceived time pressure) in one subpopulation (working-age adults), but it is not clear whether historical changes extend to other dimensions (e.g., perceived speed of time) and other ...
