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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are developing Joint Estimates of the work-related burden of disease and injury (WHO/ILO Joint Estimates), with contributions from a large network of experts. Evidence from mechanistic data suggests that exposure to long working hours may increase alcohol consumption and cause alcohol use disorder. In this paper, we ...
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Environment International
146 (2021), 106205, 26 S.
| Daniela V. Pachito, Frank Pega, Jelena Bakusic, Hannes Kröger ...
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We study the state-dependent trading behavior of financial institutions in the oil futures market, using structural vector autoregressions with Markov switching in heteroskedasticity. We consider two states of the world: tranquil and turbulent. We decompose the observable time-varying price volatility during the period 2006M6–2016M5 into changes in the slopes of traders’ demand curves and into changes ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
191 (2021), S. 1011-1024
| Daniel Bierbaumer, Malte Rieth, Anton Velinov
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, the introduction of mandatory face mask usage triggered a heated debate. A major point of controversy is whether community use of masks creates a false sense of security that would diminish physical distancing, counteracting any potential direct benefit from masking. We conducted a randomized field experiment in Berlin, Germany, to investigate how masks affect distancing ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
192 (2021), S. 765-781
| Gyula Seres, Anna Balleyer, Nicola Cerutti, Jana Friedrichsen, Müge Süer
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Background: Some have hypothesized that the coronavirus crisis may result in a retraditionalization of behaviour. This paper examines this hypothesis by analyzing how the time fathers and mothers spent with their children changed during the first lockdown in the case of Germany.Methods: Data for this investigation come from the German Socio-Economic Panel. The outcome variable is the time spent on ...
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Demographic Research
44 (2021), Art. 4, S. 99-124
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Sabine Zinn
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We investigate how indicators of dissatisfaction—worries about a variety of life domains such as health, the state of the economy, and immigration—change across time and age in Germany based on Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data. As expected, contemporary world events influenced respondents’ worries. For example, worries about peace peaked in 2003, the year of the Iraq War; worries about both immigration ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
181 (2021), S. 332-343
| Julia M. Rohrer, Martin Bruemmer, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Using an experiment, we demonstrate that a communication regime in which a worker communicates about his intended effort is less effective in: (i) soliciting truthful information; and (ii) motivating effort than one in which he communicates about his past effort. Our experiment uses a real-effort task, which additionally allows us to demonstrate the effects of communication on effort over time. We ...
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The Economic Journal
130 (2020), 630, S. 1623–1649
| Puja Bhattacharya, Kirby Nielsen, Arjun Sengupta
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While the economic voting hypothesis is a well-researched approach to explain behavior at the ballot box, a broader perspective of economic, social and environmental issues regarding a government’s chances to get re-elected is still missing in the literature. In this context, this paper makes use for the first time of the Agenda 2030 with its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the comprehensive ...
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Sustainability
12 (2020), 16, 6445, 14 S.
| Christian Kroll, Vera Zipperer
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The purpose of this paper is to provide detailed insights into an approach to measure gross employment of the renewable energy (RES) industry in Germany in order to improve transparency and comparability. The method applied for the assessment of gross employment figures follows the input–output (IO) modeling approach and covers direct as well as indirect employment effects.All-in-all, four different ...
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Sustainability
12 (2020), 15, 6163, 21 S.
| Marlene O'Sullivan, Dietmar Edler
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This survey study assesses attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty.
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JAMA Network Open
3 (2020), 12, e2032335, 5 S.
| Odette Wegwarth, Gert G. Wagner, Claudia Spies, Ralph Hertwig
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A relative uniformity of population distribution on the territory of the country is of importance from socio-economic and strategic perspectives. It is especially important in the case of Russia with its densely populated West and underpopulated East. This paper considers changes in population density in Russian regions, which occurred between 1897 and 2017. It explores whether there was convergence ...
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Voprosy ėkonomiki : ežemesjačnyj žurnal
(2020), 11, S. 133-158
| Konstantin A. Kholodilin