Markus M. Grabka
Dresden,
27.04.2011
| Gerecht. Gerechtigkeit als Gegenstand und Prinzip in Forschung und Politik: Vortragsreihe von Staatsschauspiel Dresden, TU Dresden und Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
This paper investigates the income convergence among Russian regions in the period 1998-2006. It makes two major contributions to rather extensive literature on the regional convergence in Russia. First, it identifies spatial regimes using the exploratory spatial data analysis. Second, it examines the impact of spatial effects on the convergence process. Our results show that the overall speed of...
Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Aleksey Oshchepkov, Boriss Siliverstovs
Ekaterinburg, Russland,
22.04.2011
- 23.04.2011| Ustojcivoe razvitie rossijskich regionov: celovek i modernizacija (Sustainable Development of Russian Regions: Human and Modernization): VIII Mezdunarodnaja naucnaja-prakticeskaja konferencija po problemam ekonomiceskogo razvitija v sovremennom mire
This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in the timing of state bans to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich...
Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
London, Großbritannien,
18.04.2011
- 20.04.2011| Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2011: RES 2011
Florian Mölders, Ulrich Volz
Nottingham, Großbritannien,
14.04.2011
- 15.04.2011| 10th GEP Annual Postgraduate Conference: The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP)
The paper provides evidence on the determinants and the development of private school attendance in Germany since the late 1980s. Germany is often cited as one of the prime examples of educational differentiation, since streaming into different types of schools starts early and the educational outcomes produced by these schools differ widely. Most empirical evidence on private school choice...
Henning Lohmann
Colchester, Großbritannien,
13.04.2011
- 16.04.2011| The 2011 Spring Meeting of the ISA RC28
Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Eric Girardin
Frankfurt/Oder,
13.04.2011
| Research Factory: Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Europa-Universität Viadrina
Reimund Schwarze, Jochen Diekmann, Gert G. Wagner
Berlin,
12.04.2011
| Berlin Lunchtime Meeting: Naturgefahren, Atomrisiken - wir brauchen ökonomische Strategien des gesellschaftlichen Risikomanagements!