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The 2022 natural gas price spikes across Europe raised concerns regarding their distributional consequences. This paper investigates the distributional effect of price increases between and, in particular, within different income groups in Germany, accounting for different determinants of gas expenditures. The study finds that low-income households are affected the most by the gas price increase. Low-income ...
In:
Energy Policy
175 (2023), 113472
| Mats Kröger, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff, Franziska Schütze
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What is the impact of housing upgrades on occupant health? Although economists and policymakers are certain about the health implications of housing upgrades, empirical evidence is largely missing or else only based on small-scale experiments in developing countries. This study provides the first population-representative quasi-experimental estimates based on a large-scale refurbishment program that ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2023,
(SOEPpapers 1186)
| Steffen Künn, Juan Palacios
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This study examines how retirement options for husbands and wives impact their labour supply decisions using a regression discontinuity design. In the context of German pension reforms, which have tightened early retirement possibilities, we find that coordination in retirement decisions between spouses was more prevalent and symmetrical before the reforms, but less so after. This sheds light on the ...
In:
Labour Economics
91 (2024), 102627
| Hamed Markazi Moghadam, Patrick A. Puhani, Joanna Tyrowicz
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Ein Unfall, eine chronische Erkrankung oder auch eine angeborene Behinderung sind häufige Ursachen für den Verlust der Erwerbsfähigkeit. Der Wegfall des Erwerbseinkommens wird zwar durch die Erwerbsminderungsrente in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung versichert. Diese Rente ist aber so niedrig, dass Erwerbsgeminderte einem sehr hohen Armutsrisiko ausgesetzt sind und überdurchschnittlich häufig Leistungen ...
In:
DIW Wochenbericht
90 (2023), 17, 191-197
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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An accident, a chronic illness, or even a congenital disability are common causes of a loss of earning capacity. Although the loss of earned income is insured through the reduced earning capacity pension in the statutory pension insurance scheme, the amount received is so low that people with reduced earning capacity are at very high risk of poverty and there is a higher-than-average likelihood of ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
13 (2023), 17/18, 123-129
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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It is often argued that institutionalized after-school care (ASC) can benefit children lacking adequate homework support at home and, hence, foster equality of opportunity. However, despite considerable policy interest, it is unclear whether these afternoon programs are beneficial for child development and if selection into them is efficient, i.e., whether students benefiting most from the programs ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2006)
| Laura Schmitz
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Seit Jahren steigt die Lebenserwartung weltweit an. Oeppen und Vaupel (2002) schätzen für die entwickelten Länder, dass sich die Lebenserwartung bei der Geburt seit über 150 Jahren alle zehn Jahre um etwa zweieinhalb Jahre erhöht hat. Allerdings gibt es dabei große Unterschiede, selbst innerhalb der Geburtskohorten: So unterscheidet sich die Lebenserwartung unter anderem nach dem Geschlecht, der Bildung, ...
In:
IW-Trends
49 (2022), 2, 141-146
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Maximilian Schaller
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There is a differentiated literature on policy advice, but it is largely disconnected from the literature (and the underlying research landscape) on academic communication, which originally dealt only with the natural sciences. And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the figure of the „public intellectual“ who has played an important role in the humanities and social sciences for ...
In:
Wirtschaftsdienst
102 (2022), 7, 518-521
| Gert G. Wagner
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Wohnkosten machen einen großen Teil der Ausgaben der Haushalte und Familien aus, und variieren zwischen Haushalten unterschiedlicher Größe und Struktur stark. Trotzdem werden sie in der Familienberichterstattung bisher wenig thematisiert. Die vorliegende Arbeit will diese Lücke schließen, indem sie die Wohnkostensituation und Wohlfahrtsvorteile, die sich durch kostenreduziertes Wohnen ergeben, in Kategorien ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(SOEPpapers 1169)
| Susanne Elsas, Annika Rinlake
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I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The longer-term impacts are driven by ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2022,
(DIW Discussion Paper 2016)
| Sevrin Waights