This paper examines the impact of outdoor and indoor pollution on children's health from birth until the age of three years in Germany. We use representative data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), combined with five air pollution levels. These data come from the Federal Environment Agency and cover the years 2002-2007. Our work offers three important contributions. Firstly, we use...
Katja Coneus, C. Katharina Spieß
Helsinki, Finnland,
07.07.2010
- 10.07.2010| Connecting Health and Economics: 8th European Conference on Health Economics (ECHE 2010)
Elke Holst
Berlin,
05.07.2010
| Das norwegische Experiment - eine Frauenquote für Aufsichtsräte: Präsentation einer Studie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Markus M. Grabka
Kassel,
03.07.2010
| Internationale (empirische) Einkommensverteilungsanalyse: Lehrveranstaltung am Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften an der Universität Kassel
This study investigates the role of gender in the investment behavior of individuals. The analysis bases on real-life investment data collected at an online market for peer-to-peer lending. The aim is to find out whether male and female investors differ in the propensity for risk taking and performance of investments. Conversely to the common belief, I find no evidence for gender differences....
Various studies have interpreted the positive correlation between income risk and wealth as evidence of significant precautionary savings. However, these high estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs, without controlling for heterogeneity. This article provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data that includes private wealth balance sheets....
Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
Warschau, Polen,
02.07.2010
- 04.07.2010| Warsaw International Economic Meeting: WIEM
Studies on precautionary savings (PS) have shown a variety of results which range from high shares of PS in total wealth to little or no PS at all. The plurality of results is probably caused by the many conceptual choices and problems that accompany this analysis. An important problem is to find a reliable measure of permanent income and future economic risks that corresponds to those perceived...
Johannes Geyer
Warschau, Polen,
02.07.2010
- 04.07.2010| Warsaw International Economic Meeting: WIEM
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We suggest semi-parametric censored quantile regression models to relax these assumptions and find that...
We examine a specific strategy of airlines aiming at minimsing their exposure to allowance auctions under the EU Emission Trading System (EU ETS). Airlines have interest in receiving allowances aplenty and free of charge. An attractive loophole is offered by a poor design element of the benchmark metric used for free allowance allocation by member states. For the entire trading period of eight...
Andreas Schröder
Amsterdam, Niederlande,
01.07.2010
- 03.07.2010| Challenges in Air Transport: Annual GARS Student Research Workshop
The well-documented positive correlation between income risk and wealth was interpreted as evidence for high amounts of precautionary wealth in various studies. However, the large estimates emerged from pooling non-entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs without controlling for heterogeneity. This paper provides evidence for Germany based on representative panel data including private wealth balance...
Frank M. Fossen, Davud Rostam-Afschar
Berlin,
30.06.2010
- 01.07.2010| SOEP 2010: 9th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference
Olaf Groh-Samberg, Henning Lohmann, Lorenzo Cappellari, Massimiliano Bratti
Berlin,
30.06.2010
- 01.07.2010| SOEP 2010: 9th International German Socio-Economic Panel User Conference