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Background and Aims: While research has focused on outcomes of tobacco control policies, less is known about the mechanisms by which policies may affect tobacco use. We estimated the associations of changes in cigarette taxes and smoke‐free legislation with (1) any household cigarette expenditure and (2) the level of household expenditure on cigarettes, as well as (3) tested interactions with socio‐economic ...
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Addiction
114 (2018), 4, S. 721-729
| Summer Sherburne Hawkins, Melissa Kull, Christopher F. Baum
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In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short‐run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socioeconomic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self‐employment, as well as reservation wages and satisfaction. We also discuss difficulties ...
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German Economic Review
20 (2019), 3, S. 257-292
| Marco Caliendo, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
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We analyze whether mothers’ parental leave decisions depend on their coworkers’ decisions. The identification of peer effects bears various challenges due to correlated characteristics within social groups. We therefore exploit quasi-random variation in the costs of parental leave induced by a policy reform in Germany. The reform encourages mothers to remain at home during the first year following ...
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Labour Economics
57 (2019), S. 146-163
| Clara Welteke, Katharina Wrohlich
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We quantify the greenhouse-gas mitigation potential and carbon abatement costs if green waste in the metropolitan region of Berlin, Germany, is diverted from composting into the production of hydrothermally carbonized coal (HTC coal) that is used to substitute for hard coal in electricity and heat generation. Depending on the origin of the green waste, we specify an urban, a rural-urban, and a rural ...
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Energy Policy
123 (2018), S. 503-513
| Jakob Medick, Isabel Teichmann, Claudia Kemfert
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Does birth order shape people’s propensity to take risks? Evidence is mixed. We used a three-pronged approach to investigate birth-order effects on risk taking. First, we examined the propensity to take risks as measured by a self-report questionnaire administered in the German Socio-Economic Panel, one of the largest and most comprehensive household surveys. Second, we drew on data from the Basel–Berlin ...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
116 (2019), 13, S. 6019-6024
| Tomas Lejarraga, Renato Frey, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Ralph Hertwig
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We assess the short-term employment effects of the introduction of a national statutory minimum wage in Germany in 2015. For this purpose, we exploit variation in the regional treatment intensity, assuming that the stronger a minimum wage ‘bites’ into the regional wage distribution, the stronger the regional labour market will be affected. In contrast to previous studies, we construct two regional ...
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Labour Economics
53 (2018), S. 46-62
| Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuss, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
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The goal of this study was to identify and empirically test variables that indicate how well partners in relationships know each other's food preferences. Participants (n = 2,854) lived in the same household and were part of a large, nationally representative panel study in Germany. Each partner independently predicted the other's preferences for several common food items. Results show that predictive ...
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Appetite
133 (2019), S. 344-352
| Benjamin Scheibehenne, Jutta Mata, David Richter
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Study Objectives: To examine the changes in mothers’ and fathers’ sleep satisfaction and sleep duration across prepregnancy, pregnancy, and the postpartum period of up to 6 years after birth; it also sought to determine potential protective and risk factors for sleep during that time.Methods: Participants in a large population-representative panel study from Germany reported sleep satisfaction and ...
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Sleep
42 (2019), 4, S. 1-10
| David Richter, Michael D. Krämer, Nicole K. Y. Tang, Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs, Sakari Lemola
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Continued global action on climate change has major consequences for fossil fuel markets, especially for coal as the most carbon-intensive fuel. This article summarizes current market developments in the most important coal-producing and coal-consuming countries, resulting in a critical qualitative assessment of prospects for future coal exports. Colombia, as the world’s fourth largest exporter, is ...
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Climate Policy
19 (2019), 1, S. 73-91
| Pao-Yu Oei, Roman Mendelevitch
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The heating sector accounts for a major part of Germanys energy consumption and carbon emissions. Both, renewable energy and power-to-heat, could help decarbonizing it. To analyse the impacts of power-to-heat and heat storage on power system development, a dynamic long-term power sector investment and dispatch model for Europe is extended to also include German individual and district heating. Findings ...
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Applied Energy
239 (2019), S. 560-580
| Andreas Bloess
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This study examines the causal link between individuals' occupational knowledge and educational choices as well as labor market entry. We proxy occupational knowledge with mandatory visits to job information centers (JICs) in Germany while still attending school. Exogenous variation in the establishment of JICs makes it possible to estimate intention-to-treat effects in a difference-in-differences ...
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Economics of Education Review
69 (2019), S. 108-124
| Nils Saniter, Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Thomas Siedler
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Based on highly comparable data from the OECD PIAAC Programme, this note analyzes the relationship between generalized trust and cognitive skills among 30 countries around the world. The results show that the strength and direction of the relationship is not a universal characteristic but varies substantially among countries worldwide. A detailed descriptive analysis of this variation provides evidence ...
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Economics Bulletin
39 (2019), 1, S. 200-206
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein
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Most simulated micro-founded macro models use solely consumer-demand aggregates in order to estimate preference parameters of a representative consumer, for use in policy evaluation. Focusing on dynamic models with time-separable preferences, we show that aggregation holds if, and only if, momentary utility functions fall in the Identical-Shape Harmonic Absolute-Risk Aversion (ISHARA) utility class, ...
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European Economic Review
111 (2019), S. 166-190
| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder, Ulrich Schmidt
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The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
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Small Business Economics
53 (2019), 1, S. 1-20
| Alexander Konon, Alexander S. Kritikos
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We empirically investigate the possibility that a decision maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. A large data set from the centralized clearinghouse for university admissions in Germany shows a choice pattern of applicants that is consistent with coin flipping and that entails substantial consequences for the matching outcome. In ...
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Journal of Public Economics
167 (2018), S. 240-250
| Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler, Georg Weizsäcker
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Children's development is fostered by both high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings and high quality home learning environments. As we know little about the interrelations between these two environments, we examine whether the child's attendance in a high quality ECEC arrangement relates to the quality of her home learning environment. Using rich NICHD Study of Early Child Care ...
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Education Economics
27 (2019), 3, S. 265-286
| Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus, C. Katharina Spieß
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Competitive escalation occurs frequently in managerial environments, when decisions create sunk costs and decision makers compete under time pressure. In a series of experiments using a minimal dollar auction paradigm, we test interventions to prevent competitive escalation. Without any intervention, most people, including experienced managers, escalate and lose money by bidding more than the price ...
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
31 (2018), 5, S. 695-714
| Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Jan K. Woike
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Based on considerations of societal mothering ideologies, qualitative gender studies suggest detrimental effects of motherhood on women’s mental well-being. However, numerous quantitative life course analyses find no such effect. This dissonance may originate in the measurement of well-being usually employed in longitudinal quantitative designs, which does not capture the dimensions of well-being identified ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
37 (2018), S. 31-41
| Marco Giesselmann, Marina Hagen, Reinhard Schunck
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We analyze competition between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) where consumers demand heterogeneous content within two Quality-of-Service (QoS) regimes, Net Neutrality and Paid Prioritization, and show that paid prioritization increases the static efficiency compared to a neutral network. We also consider paid prioritization intermediated by Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). While the use of CDNs ...
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Information Economics and Policy
46 (2019), S. 55-67
| Pio Baake, Slobodan Sudaric
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Consideration of contracting-out has been a mainstay of Thredbo conferences past, accounting for over half of conference papers. This workshop showed that contracting-out remains an important and vibrant theme, with 32 papers and some 50 participants from 20 countries. Case studies of contracting-out (and variants thereof) were presented at the national level for both bus (21) and rail (6). All stages ...
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Research in Transportation Economics
69 (2018), S. 86-96
| Rico Merkert, John Preston, Maria Melkersson, Heike Link