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Taller populations are typically richer populations, and taller individuals live longer and earn more. In consequence, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the childhood determinants of population adult height, focusing on the respective roles of income and of disease. Across a range of European countries and the United ...
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Demography
46 (2009), 4, S. 647-669
| Carlos Bozzoli, Angus Deaton, Climent Quintana-Domeque
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Mit der Unternehmensteuerreform 2008 wird es Personenunternehmen ermöglicht, Gewinne, die im Unternehmen verbleiben sollen, ermäßigt zu besteuern. Werden diese ermäßigt versteuerten Gewinne zu einem späteren Zeitpunkt entnommen, erfolgt eine Nachbelastung in Höhe von 25 % zzgl. Solidaritätszuschlag. Einen kurzfristigen steuerlichen Anreiz zur ermäßigt besteuerten Gewinneinbehaltung gibt es somit auf ...
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Betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis
61 (2009), 4, S. 422-437
| Michael Broer, Nadja Dwenger
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The German Renewable Energy Act (EEG) has been very successful in promoting the deployment of renewable electricity technologies in Germany. The increasing share of EEG power in the generation portfolio, increasing amounts of fluctuating power generation, and the growing European integration of power markets governed by competition calls for a re-design of the EEG. In particular, a more efficient system ...
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Energy Policy
37 (2009), 4, S. 1289-1297
| Ole Langniß, Jochen Diekmann, Ulrike Lehr
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Extensive research efforts notwithstanding, scholars continue to disagree on the nature and meaning of party identification. Traditionalists conceive of partisanship as a largely affective attachment to a political party that emerges in childhood through parental influences and tends to persist throughout life. The revisionist conception of partisanship is that of a running tally of party utilities ...
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Political Behavior
31 (2009), 4, S. 559-574
| Martin Kroh, Peter Selb
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We show that any decision maker who "narrowly brackets" (evaluates decisions separately) and does not have constant-absolute-risk-averse preferences will make a first-order stochastically dominated combined choice in some simple pair of independent binary decisions. We also characterize the preference-contingent monetary cost from this mistake. Empirically, in a real-stakes laboratory experiment that ...
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The American Economic Review
99 (2009), 4, S. 1508-1543
| Matthew Rabin, Georg Weizsäcker
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This article analyzes differences in naming between East and West Germany. After World War II, Germany was split by the allied forces. Two Germanies emerged: the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The country's division lasted about forty years (1949-1989), a time span in which vastlydifferent geo-political frameworks - Eastern bloc versus Western bloc - shaped ...
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Names: A Journal of Onomastics
57 (2009), 4, S. 208-228
| Denis Huschka, Jürgen Gerhards, Gert G. Wagner
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We propose a generalized estimating equations (GEE) approach to the estimation of the mean and covariance structure of bivariate time series processes of panel data. The one-step approach allows for mixed continuous and discrete dependent variables. A Monte Carlo Study is presented to compare our particular GEE estimator with more standard GEE-estimators. In the empirical illustration, we apply our ...
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AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis
93 (2009), 4, S. 427-447
| Markus Pannenberg, Martin Spieß
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We examine hysteresis in EU and US unemployment by panel unit root tests. First generation tests indicate that unemployment is stationary. Second generation tests show mixed results. Idiosyncratic components are stationary in the US. A unit root in the US common component depends on the starting point of the sample. While the common component is nonstationary over the whole period, it is mean-reverting ...
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Spanish Economic Review
11 (2009), 4, S. 267-276
| Christian Dreger, Hans-Eggert Reimers
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For a long time, the social policy discussion in Germany has been heavily dominated by income inequality and poverty risk rates, while at the same time the analysis of personal wealth distribution was underdeveloped, last but not least due to a severe lack of appropriate data. Using representative micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), this paper analyzes individual level information ...
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Berliner Journal für Soziologie
19 (2009), 4, S. 577-600
| Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka
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This paper empirically examines social network explanations for migration decisions in the context of German reunification. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we first show that the presence of a family in West Germany is an important predictor for the migration hazard rate of East Germans. We then explore whether pre-migration networks have a discernible impact on the economic ...
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Economics of Transition
17 (2009), 4, S. 739-767
| Helmut Rainer, Thomas Siedler