Jährlicher DIW-Wärmemonitor auf Basis von Daten des Energiedienstleisters ista Deutschland GmbH: Seit 2015 sinkt erstmals wieder Heizenergiebedarf in Wohngebäuden – Steigende Preise lassen aber Heizausgaben um 2,4 Prozent steigen – CO2-Emissionen sind seit 2010 zwar insgesamt um 21 Prozent gefallen, temperaturbereinigt aber nur um 2,6 Prozent – Energetische ...
This paper studies the impact of financial investments on agricultural futures prices, using structural vector autoregressions. We identify exogenous variation in net long positions of speculators through heteroskedasticity. We first show that demand shocks of both index investors and noncommercial traders lead to a statistically significant contemporaneous increase in futures prices. We then quantify ...
A body of literature reports higher rates of depression and neuroticism in female samples compared to male samples. Numerous studies have investigated the role of prenatal sex hormone exposure in this sex difference, using the ratio between the second and fourth digit of the hand (“2D:4D”) as a putative marker. However, the sample sizes of those studies were mostly small and results remained inconclusive. ...
Tobias Heidland hat einen Ruf auf eine W3-Professur für Volkswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere International Macroeconomics, an der Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, verbunden mit einer Abteilungsleitung am Institut für Weltwirtschaft an der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, angenommen. Er wird zum 1. Oktober 2020 diese Professur antreten und deshalb auch als ...
Few studies have examined birth order effects on personality in countries that are not Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic (WEIRD). However, theories have generally suggested that interculturally universal family dynamics are the mechanism behind birth order effects, and prominent theories such as resource dilutionwould predict even stronger linear effects in poorer countries. Here, ...
A major challenge for proxy vector autoregressive analysis is the construction of a suitable instrument variable for identifying a shock of interest. We propose a simple proxy that can be constructed whenever the dating and sign of particular shocks are known. It is shown that the proxy can lead to impulse response estimates of the impact effects of the shock of interest that are nearly as efficient ...
Temporary employees rank lower than permanent employees on various measures of mental and physical health, including well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U-shape, with a nadir in midlife. Temporary employment may well have different associations with well-being across the lifespan, likely harming people in midlife more ...
