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This paper uses propensity score methods to analyse the effect of involuntary maternal job loss on children's non-cognitive skills. My analyses are based on a rich and nationwide random sample, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) that includes information about maternal job loss and child behaviour and non-cognitive skills, in addition to a rich conditioning set. The results show that maternal ...
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Labour Economics
42 (2016), S. 43-63
| Frauke H. Peter
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We analyse the effects of playing music, or doing sports on education and health outcomes of adolescents. After identifying adolescents who play music, do sports, or both, in the German Socio-Economic Panel, we use matching procedures to estimate causal effects. We find that playing music instead of doing sports fosters educational outcomes by about 0.1 standard deviations. Effects are stronger for ...
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Labour Economics
41 (2016), S. 90-103
| Charlotte Cabane, Adrian Hille, Michael Lechner
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To ensure sufficient investment in electricity generation capacity, mechanisms such as strategic reserves are being considered or already implemented. We analyze the effectiveness of a strategic reserve in the presence of a growing portfolio share of renewable energy sources (RES) with EMLab-Generation, an agent-based electricity market model. A strategic reserve can stabilize investment, but within ...
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Utilities Policy
39 (2016), S. 13-28
| Pradyumna C. Bhagwar, Jörn Richstein, Emile J. L. Chappin, Laurens J. de Vries
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The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axes are typically conceptualized as mutually inhibitory systems; however, previous studies have found evidence for positive within-person associations (i.e., coupling) between cortisol and testosterone. One developmental hypothesis is that positive testosterone-cortisol coupling is unique to the adolescent period and ...
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Psychoneuroendocrinology
73 (2016), S. 75-90
| K. Paige Harden, Cornelia Wrzus, Gloria Luong, Andrew Grotzinger, Malek Bajbouj, Antje Rauers, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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This paper explores the long run relationship between public and private investment in the euro area. In contrast to previous studies a stock-flow approach is applied to control for the different orders of integration between the stock and flow variables. Panel econometric techniques allowing for international spillovers are employed. Private and public capital stocks are both I(2) and cointegrated. ...
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Economic Modelling
58 (2016), S. 154-158
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
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Theoretical work based on social identity theory predicts that population diversity undermines redistributive public policies. This article tests this proposition exploiting an exogenous shock in diversity due to Germany’s reunification. In contrast to previous work on ethno-linguistic or racial heterogeneity, we specifically analyze religious diversity, which is an increasingly relevant social cleavage ...
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Journal of Urban Economics
94 (2016), S. 1-12
| Ronny Freier, Benny Geys, Joshua Holm
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Changes in residual volatility in vector autoregressive (VAR) models can be used for identifying structural shocks in a structural VAR analysis. Testable conditions are given for full identification for the case where the volatility changes can be modelled by a multivariate GARCH process. Formal statistical tests are presented for identification and their small sample properties are investigated via ...
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Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control
73 (2016), S. 241-258
| Helmut Lütkepohl, George Milunovich
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We investigate whether non-cognitive skills – in particular Locus of Control – are important determinants of mobility processes for male workers at the low-wage margin. Our results reveal a significant amount of state dependence in low pay even after controlling for non-cognitive skills. Furthermore, compared to individuals with an external Locus of Control, individuals with a more internal Locus of ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
53 (2016), S. 164-177
| Daniel D. Schnitzlein, Jens Stephani
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In this paper, we analyze the technical efficiency and CO2 reduction potentials of German power and heat plants, using a non-parametric sequential Data Envelopment Analysis. We apply a metafrontier framework to evaluate plant-level efficiency in the transformation of inputs into desirable (energy) and undesirable (CO2 emissions) outputs, taking into account different fossil fuel generation technologies. ...
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Energy Economics
56 (2016), S. 9-19
| Stefan Seifert, Astrid Cullmann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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In response to the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), bank regulatory regimes were tightened world-wide to strengthen banking stability and the resilience of the banking sectors. Yet, it is often claimed that regulatory tightening may lead banks to cut back on lending and comes at the cost of a lower loan supply. The present paper uses a country panel for 50 advanced and emerging market economies to analyze ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
66 (2016), S. 113-135
| Marcel Fratzscher, Philipp König, Claudia Lambert