Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Conjunctural Developments in Germany and the World Economy

The Strategic Use of Private Quality Standards in Food Supply Chains

Aufkommens- und Verteilungswirkungen einer Grünen Vermögensabgabe

Joint Customer Data Acquisition and Sharing among Rivals

It is increasingly observable that in different industries competitors jointly acquire and share customer data. We propose a modified Hotelling model with two-dimensional consumer heterogeneity to analyze the incentives for such agreements and their welfare implications. In our model the incentives of firms for data acquisition and sharing depend on the willingness of consumers to switch brands....

Marriage, Children and Changes in Employment Status: Do Transitions Influence Power within Couples?

Income and Longevity Revisted: Do High-Earning Women Live Longer?

Extending the Empirical Basis for Wealth Inequality Research Using Statistical Matching of Administrative and Survey Data

Transitions in Schooling: Estimating a Sequential Decision Process

Forschungsinfrastruktur in den Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und die Arbeit des RatSWD: Bestandsaufnahme, weiterführende Strategien und zukünftige Aufgaben

Georeferenzierte Kontextdaten aus Sicht der Sozial-, Verhaltens- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Is Doing the Chores Bad for Your Earnings?: The Housework Wage Penalty for Full-Time Workers

Ethnic Identity and Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants

Do Tuition Fees Affect the Mobility of University Applicants? Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Several German states recently introduced tuition fees for university education. We investigate whether these tuition fees influence the mobility of university applicants. Based on administrative data of applicants for medical schools in Germany, we estimate the effect of tuition fees on the probability of applying for a university in the home state. We find a small but significant reaction: The...

The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System

This article analyzes the effects of an increase in statutory sick pay from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. Difference-in-differences approaches show that the increase in generosity decreased employee attendance by about ten percent or one day per employee per year. Heterogeneity in response behavior was of great importance and employee health its main driver. For employers,...

Operational and Investment Response to Energy Prices in the OECD Manufacturing: Evidence from the Vintage Capital Model

Assessing the Effectiveness of Health Care Cost Containment Measures

Using SOEP panel data and difference-in-differences methods, this study is the first to empirically evaluate the effectiveness of four different health care cost containment measures within an integrated framework. The four measures investigated were introduced in Germany in 1997 to reduce moral hazard and public health expenditures in the market for convalescent care. Doubling the daily...

Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

The Economics of Sickness Absence

World War II and Cold War: How Naming in Germany Was Influenced

The Effects of Expanding the Generosity of the Statutory Sickness Insurance System

This article analyzes the effects of an increase in statutory sick pay from 80 to 100 percent of forgone gross wages in Germany. Difference-in-differences approaches show that the increase in generosity decreased employee attendance by about ten percent or one day per employee per year. Heterogeneity in response behavior was of great importance and employee health its main driver. For employers,...