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While financial inclusion is typically addressed by improving the financial infrastructure, we show that a higher degree of financial literacy also has a clear beneficial effect. We study this effect at the cross-country level, which allows us to consider institutional variation. Regarding “access to finance”, financial infrastructure and financial literacy are mainly substitutes. However, regarding ...
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World Development
111 (2018), S. 84-96
| Antonia Grohmann, Theres Klühs, Lukas Menkhoff
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Background: It has become increasingly common in multiple purpose general population surveys to integrate different kinds of biomarker in the data collection process.Objective: In this article we test the predictive power of five different functional forms of CVD-related biomarkers for all-cause and CVD mortality in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS).Methods: We use five different functional forms ...
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Demographic Research
38 (2018), Art. 62, S. 1933-2002
| Hannes Kröger, Rasmus Hoffmann
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This study evaluates the impact of fuel taxes on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly new car registrations in France. We use information on the car holder to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers, and we identify demand parameters through the large oil price fluctuations of this period. We find that the short-term sensitivity of demand with respect ...
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Energy Economics
74 (2018), S. 76-96
| Pauline Givord, Céline Grislain-Letrémy, Helene Naegele
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This paper investigates the link between corporate debt and investment for a group of five peripheral euro area countries. Using firm-level data from 2005 to 2014, we postulate a non-linear corporate leverage-investment relationship and derivethresholds beyond which leverage has a negative and significant impact on investment. The investment sensitivity of debt increased after 2008 when financial distress ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
80 (2018), S. 112-130
| Stefan Gebauer, Ralph Setzer, Andreas Westphal
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Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
55 (2018), S. 99-108
| Alberto Veira-Ramos, Paul Schmelzer
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Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...
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Labour Economics
53 (2018), S. 146-161
| Stefan Etgeton
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Previous research came to contradictory conclusion about the prosocial nature of intuitive decisions, as compared to deliberate decisions. This paper proposes the prosociality of the status quo allocation as a determinant of the prosociality of intuitive decisions. I present results from two experiments (N = 1,649) that manipulate time pressure and elicit response times in a binary dictator game. One ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
74 (2018), S. 127-138
| Manja Gärtner
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We analyze the welfare effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Earlier TTIP studies analyze welfare effects in a framework where output and welfare coincide. We believe that the utility function of households, which depends on consumption and employment, is the best criterion for assessing TTIP. We measure the ...
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Economic Modelling
70 (2018), S. 230-238
| Philipp Engler, Juha Tervala
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Political representatives frequently make decisions with far-reaching implications for citizens and societies. Most of these decisions are choices in situations in which the probabilities of gains and losses are hard to estimate. Although decision-making is crucial to politics, existing research has hardly ever addressed the political representation of traits that notably influence decision-making. ...
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Palgrave Communications
4 (2018), 60, 7 S.
| Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Aiko Wagner, Gert G. Wagner
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Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, ...
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Frontiers in Psychology
9 (2018), Art. 739, 12 S.
| Nina Richter, Rebecca Bondü, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner, Gisela Trommsdorff