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Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. This paper shows that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data – Facebook interests – to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United ...
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The Economic Journal
136 (2026), 673, S. 335–350
| Eric A Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Pietro Sancassani, Ludger Woessmann
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Forced migration has intensified in the 21st century, driven by conflicts, persecution, and political instability in regions such as the Middle East, Afghanistan, the Horn of Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America and, most recently, Ukraine. Germany has become a primary destination for refugees within the European Union and one of the largest among the OECD countries. The IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey, ...
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European Sociological Review
42 (2026), 1, S. 146–163
| Herbert Brücker, Yuliya Kosyakova, Nina Rother, Sabine Zinn, Elisabeth Liebau, Wenke Gider, Silvia Schwanhäuser, Manuel Siegert
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The transition to decarbonized energy systems has fueled a controversial debate over the necessity of traditional ‘‘baseload’’ power. Skepticism remains regarding the reliability and economic feasibility of power systems relying mainly on cheap variable renewable energy (VRE) sources. Addressing this, the German Academies’ project ‘‘Energy Systems of the Future’’ (ESYS) analyzed the role of baseload ...
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Cell Reports Physical Science
7 (2026), 1, 103050, 6 S.
| Anke Weidlich, Philipp Stöcker, Karen Pittel, Christoph Luderer, Frank-Detlef Drake, Berit Erlach, Manfred Fischedick, Jutta Hanson, Hans-Martin Henning, Wilhelm Kiewitt, Jochen Kreusel, Albert Moser, Wolfram Münch, Albrecht Reuter, Dirk Uwe Sauer, Wolf-Peter Schill, Frank Sensfuß, Hartmut Spliethoff, Cyril Stephanos, Christoph Weber, Sven Wurbs
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This paper examines the “right” geographic definition of relevant markets by analyzing how excise tax pass-through varies with local competition in the retail gasoline market of a large metropolitan city. Using a natural experiment from three unanticipated and exogenous fuel tax hikes and detailed station-level price data, we show that average pass-through is invariant to the number of nearby competitors ...
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International Journal of Industrial Organization
(2026), 103266, im Ersch. [online first_2026-01-29]
| Christos Genakos, Themistoklis Kampouris
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Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have proven successful to address major coastal environmental challenges. Participatory approaches to NbS planning, design and implementation are increasing, yet community empowerment remains an underexplored aspect of NbS. This paper aims to assess the current state of knowledge on the contribution of community empowerment in NbS approaches to address coastal challenges ...
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Environmental Science and Policy
177 (2026), 104326, 12 S.
| Ina M. Sieber, A. Rita Carrasco, Cecilia Gañán de Molina, Mia Cassidy Prall, Ananya Tiwari, Marcello Graziano, Vilja Larjosto, Spyridoula Ntemiri, Nils Bunnefeld, Simo Sarkki, Candice Pouget, José Pontón-Cevallos
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In this paper, we combine Census data with death records to examine the relationship between income inequality and race-specific mortality across 5,565 municipalities in Brazil. We find that overall income inequality is strongly associated with Non-White mortality but not with White mortality. To understand this disparity, we decompose the Gini coefficient and find that the racial income gap accounts ...
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World Development
202 (2026), 107340, 15 S.
| Gedeão Locks, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez
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Competition authorities increasingly rely on economic screening tools to identify markets where firms deviate from competitive norms. Traditional screening methods assume that collusion occurs through secret agreements. However, recent research highlights that firms can use public announcements to coordinate decisions, thereby reducing competition while avoiding detection.We propose a novel approach ...
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Journal of Competition Law & Economics
(2026), im Ersch. [online first: 2026-02-02]
| Tomaso Duso, Joseph E.Harrington, Jr., Carl Kreuzberg, Geza Sapi
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Objectives: This study examines unintended consequences (UIC) of public health and social measures (PHSM) in camps and camp-like settings and assesses the pathways through which these UIC arise. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and conceptual analysis of UIC from PHSM aimed at preventing SARS-CoV-2 spread in these settings. PHSM were classified using the WHO taxonomy and the CONSEQUENT framework ...
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Public Health Reviews
47 (2026), 1608732, 23 S.
| Maren Hintermeier, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Nora Gottlieb, Amir Mohsenpour, Navina Sarma, Renke Biallas, Louise Biddle
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Previous research suggests that women tend to self-report higher life satisfaction and happiness, lower health status and trust, and more left-leaning political preferences than men. We revisit the gender gap in these outcome variables using random-effects meta-analysis, aggregating data across 39 countries surveyed in the European Social Survey (n ≈ 500,000). Measured in Cohen’s d units, women, on ...
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Scientific Reports
16 (2026), 3406, 12 S.
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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The energy price crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy-inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We ...
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Energy Policy
213 (2026), 115145, 17 S.
| Sophie M. Behr, Merve Kucuk, Maximilian Longmuir, Karsten Neuhoff