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Essays on the Economics of Fertility and Education

Diese Dissertation enthält zwei Studien, die den Effekt finanzieller Anreize auf Fertilität analysieren und eine Studie, die analysiert wie Studenten, die sich selbst überschätzen, auf Feedback reagieren. Kapitel 1 erläutert die Motivation meiner Forschung. Kapitel 2 präsentiert eine Studie über den Fertilitätseffekt von Kindergeld. Die Studie analysiert eine deutsche Reform, durch die das Kindergeld ...

Verändertes Pendelverhalten durch mehr Homeoffice?: Mögliche Auswirkungen infolge der Corona-Pandemie

Mit dem Beginn der COVID-19-Pandemie im Jahr 2020 ist Homeoffice ins Zentrum der öffentlichen Aufmerksamkeit gerückt, da Arbeiten zu Hause als eine wichtige Strategie zur Begrenzung der sozialen Kontakte angesehen wird (Kawashima et al. 2020). Dies hat zu einem sprunghaften Anstieg der Zahl der Homeoffice-Nutzenden im Jahr 2020 geführt. So arbeiteten in der Phase verstärkter Kontaktbeschränkungen im ...

Life satisfaction and return migration: analysing the role of life satisfaction for migrant return intentions in Germany

This study analyses the role of life satisfaction for the intention of migrants to return to their country of origin. It is argued that the utility function of return migration is a function of life satisfaction gains and losses due to migration. Using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the World Value Survey, first-generation migrants from 26 countries were studied on the country level and within ...

Rational Behavior versus Social Preferences: What determines Attitudes towards Income Redistribution?

Should rich people pay higher taxes? To answer this question an individual needs to consider his attitudes towards income redistribution. Such preferences might be based on the individual income but also on social factors. Using socioeconomic data we find that self-interested motives are indeed an important driver for the preferences of income redistribution. However , our analysis reveals that social ...

Gender Score Development in the Berlin Aging Study II: A Retrospective Approach

In addition to biological sex, gender, defined as the sociocultural dimension of being a woman or a man, plays acentral role in health. However, there are so far few approaches to quantify gender in a retrospective manner in existing study datasets. We therefore aimed to develop a methodology that can be retrospectively applied to assess gender in existing cohorts. We used baseline data from the Berlin ...

The Perceived Well-Being and Health Costs of Exiting Self-Employment

We explore how involuntary and voluntary exits from self-employment affect life and health satisfaction. To that end, we use rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1985 to 2017 and a difference-in-differences estimator. We find that while transitioning from self-employment to salaried employment brings small improvements in health and life satisfaction, the negative psychological ...

Distributional Impacts of Carbon Pricing: A Meta-Analysis

Understanding the distributional impacts of market-based climate policies is crucial to design economically efficient climate change mitigation policies that are socially acceptable and avoid adverse impacts on the poor. Empirical studies that examine the distributional impacts of carbon pricing and fossil fuel subsidy reforms in different countries arrive at ambiguous results. To systematically determine ...

In der Schule angekommen?: Zur Schulsituation geflüchteter Kinder und Jugendlicher

Divisive Jobs: Three Facets of Risk, Precarity and Redistribution

A central challenge in understanding public opinion shifts is identifying whose opinions change. Political economy models typically try to uncover this by exploring voters’ economic vulnerability, in particular the relationship between labour market risk and redistribution preferences. Predominantly, however, such work imputes risk from group-level characteristics and is static in nature. This makes ...

Fiscal and Individual Rates of Return to University Education with and without Graduation

Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts.