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This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on official health diagnoses. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on official records covering all individuals insured by the public health system in Germany and including all certified diagnoses by practitioners. This enables us to gain ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100403
| Mara Barschkett, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid
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The current governance process to plan the German energy system omits two options to substitute grid expansion: First, placing renewables closer to demand instead of where site conditions are best. Second, utilizing storage instead of additional transmission infrastructure to prevent grid congestion. In the paper, we apply a comprehensive capacity expansion model based on the AnyMOD modeling framework ...
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Energy Economics
113 (2022), 106190, 10 S.
| Leonard Göke, Mario Kendziorski, Claudia Kemfert, Christian von Hirschhausen
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The transition to low-carbon economies requires massive investments into renewable energies, which are commonly supported through regulatory frameworks. Yet, governments can have incentives – and the ability – to deviate from previously announced support policies once those investments have been made, which can deter investments. We analyze a renewable energy dynamic regulation game and derive under ...
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Energy Economics
112 (2022), 106102, 16 S.
| Nils May, Olga Chiappinelli
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Cost of renewable energies have dropped, approaching wholesale power price levels. As a result, the role of renewable energy policy design is shifting – from covering incremental costs towards facilitating risk-hedging. An analytical model of the financing structure of renewable investment projects is developed to assess this effect und used to compare different policy design choices: contracts for ...
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Resource and Energy Economics
70 (2022), 101330, 15 S.
| Karsten Neuhoff, Nils May, Jörn C. Richstein
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In sequential interactions, both the agent’s intention and the outcome of his choice may influence the principal’s action. While outcomes are typically observable, intentions are more likely to be hidden, leaving potential wiggle room for the principal when deciding on a reciprocating action. We employ a controlled experiment to investigate how intentions and outcome affect the principal’s actions ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
100 (2022), 101913, 21 S.
| Jana Friedrichsen, Katharina Momsen, Stefano Piasenti
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In this paper we estimate the effect of unemployment on informal care provision. For the identification we use plant closures as a source of exogenous variation and combine difference-in-differences with matching based on entropy balancing. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We find that there is a time conflict between employment and informal care provision. ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
23 (2022), 100395, 14 S.
| Björn Fischer, Peter Haan, Santiago Salazar Sanchez
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We investigate the impact of demographic changes on local public services taking the case of water service. We apply a structural production function approach to a large panel of German water utilities between 2003 and 2014. Exploring variation of population density and the population age structure across service areas and over time, we provide evidence that demographics and their changes significantly ...
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Utilities Policy
79 (2022), 101435, 17 S.
| Astrid Cullmann, Caroline Stiel
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The self-employed faced strong income losses during the Covid-19 pandemic. Many governments introduced programs to financially support the self-employed during the pandemic, including Germany. The German Ministry for Economic Affairs announced a €50bn emergency-aid program in March 2020, offering one-off lump-sum payments of up to €15,000 to those facing substantial revenue declines. By reassuring ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
93 (2022), 102567, 16 S.
| Joern Block, Alexander S. Kritikos, Maximilian Priem, Caroline Stiel
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We conduct a randomized field experiment to study the effects of two financial education interventions offered to small-scale retailers in rural western Uganda. The treatments contrast “active learning” with traditional “lecturing” within standardized lesson-plans. After six months, active learning has a positive effect on savings and investment outcomes, in contrast to small or zero effects for lecturing. ...
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Journal of Development Economics
157 (2022), 102870, 9 S.
| Tim Kaiser, Lukas Menkhoff
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We analyze clients’ contract choices in auctions where Dutch law firms compete for standard cases such as labor disputes for individuals and collecting debts for businesses. In the auctions, lawyers can submit bids with any fee arrangement they prefer, including an hourly rate, a fixed fee, and a ‘mixed fee’: a time-capped fixed fee plus an hourly rate for any additional hours should the case take ...
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Review of Industrial Organization
61 (2022), S. 123–148
| Flóra Felsö, Sander Onderstal, Jo Seldeslachts