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The paper assesses the heterogeneity of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months). This feature allows us to estimate a continuous dose-response function that relates each value of the dose, i.e. days of training, ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series A
175 (2013), Part 2, S. 567-617
| Jochen Kluve, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Zhong Zhao
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The empirical finding that entrepreneurs invest a large share of their wealth in their own firms, despite comparably low returns and high risk, has become known as the private equity premium puzzle. This paper provides evidence supporting the hypothesis that lower risk-aversion of entrepreneurs, and thus not necessarily credit constraints, may explain this puzzle. The analysis is based on a representative ...
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Economica
78 (2011), 312, S. 656-675
| Frank M. Fossen
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We analyse the deficits of the German Länder (regional states) for the period 1960 to 2005 and test a number of hypotheses derived from the literature on the political economy of public deficits. We find evidence for the weak government hypothesis, that is, coalition governments issue significantly more debt than single party governments - a result that is typically explained by the common pool problem. ...
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Applied Economics
43 (2011), 19, S. 2399-2415
| Beate R. Jochimsen, Robert Nuscheler
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Cross-country or cross-industry studies of technology diffusion typically estimate how independent factors affect diffusion speed or timing, often based on a two-stage approach. In many applications, however, countries (industries) differ most in the saturation level of diffusion. In a single-stage econometric approach to a standard diffusion model, we therefore estimate how the saturation level covaries ...
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Applied Economics
43 (2011), 14, S. 1737-1748
| Jonathan Beck, Michal Grajek, Christian Wey
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Past research on the associations between area-level/contextual social capital and health has produced conflicting evidence. However, interpreting this rapidly growing literature is difficult because estimates using conventional regression are prone to major sources of bias including residual confounding and reverse causation. Instrumental variable (IV) analysis can reduce such bias. Using data on ...
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Social Science & Medicine
73 (2011), 12, S. 1689-1697
| Daniel Kim, Christopher F. Baum, Michael L. Ganz, S.V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi
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Storage devices and demand control may constitute beneficial tools to optimize electricity generation with a large share of intermittent resources through inter-temporal substitution of load. This paper quantifies the related cost reductions in a simulation model of a simplified stylized medium-voltage grid (10 kV) under uncertain demand and wind output. Benders Decomposition Method is applied to create ...
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Applied Energy
88 (2011), 12, S. 4700-4712
| Andreas Schröder
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This paper presents new evidence concerning the relationship between environmental conditions in the year of birth (as reflected in the infant mortality rate (IMR) and gross domestic product per capita) and adult health (adult height). We perform an analysis across Spanish regions for cohorts born between 1961 and 1980, a period when the country underwent a socio-economic and political transformation. ...
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Social Science & Medicine
72 (2011), 11, S. 1893-1903
| Carlos Bozzoli, Mariano Bosch, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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We use a game-theoretic model to analyze the impacts of a hypothetical fleet of plug-in electric vehicles on the imperfectly competitive German electricity market. Electric vehicles bring both additional demand and additional storage capacity to the market. We determine the effects on prices, welfare, and electricity generation for various cases with different players in charge of vehicle operations. ...
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Energy Policy
39 (2011), 10, S. 6178-6189
| Wolf-Peter Schill
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In theory, individual producer responsibility (IPR) creates incentives for "design-for-recycling". Yet in practice, implementing IPR is challenging, particularly if applied to waste electric and electronic equipment. This article discusses different options for implementing IPR schemes and producers' under German WEEE legislation. In addition, practical aspects of a German "return share" brand sampling ...
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Waste Management & Research
29 (2011), 9, S. 931-944
| Vera Susanne Rotter, Perrine Chancerel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Purpose. This paper aims to present the IZA Evaluation Dataset, a newly created data source allowing for the evaluation of active labor market policies in Germany. Design/methodology/approach. The paper's approach is a description of the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset and an outline of its research potential. Findings. The evaluation of active labor market policies is often confronted ...
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International Journal of Manpower
32 (2011), 7, S. 731-752
| Marco Caliendo, Armin Falk, Lutz C. Kaiser, Hilmar Schneider, Arne Uhlendorff, Gerard van den Berg, Klaus F. Zimmermann