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More cohesion on climate issues?

More cohesion on climate issues? The vast majority (71 percent) of Germans would like to see their politicians do much more to combat climate change, with 83 percent reporting they are concerned about climate change. At the same time, many people are worried about the economic consequences of climate policy. Only eight percent are clearly opposed to ecological transformation – a small but potentially ...

More cohesion on climate issues?

The vast majority (71 percent) of Germans would like to see their politicians do much more to combat climate change, with 83 percent reporting they are concerned about climate change. At the same time, many people are worried about the economic consequences of climate policy. Only eight percent are clearly opposed to ecological transformation – a small but potentially divisive group. These and other ...

Public Policies and the Housing Affordability Gap

Between 1950 and 2023, the housing cost burden — approximated by the proportion of total household consumption expenditure spent on housing, water, electricity and fuel — has risen almost steadily in many countries around the world. First, this trend can be explained by substantial improvements in the quantity and quality of housing. In fact, in some countries (e.g., Germany), per capita floor space ...

Split Questionnaire Designs as a Clever Way to Make Surveys Shorter

Revision and Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Human Values Scale for Self-completion Modes

Since its first round, the European Social Survey (ESS) has included a 21-item measure of ten basic human values shared across cultures, known as the Human Values Scale (HVS), developed by Shalom H. Schwartz. Recently, the scale has been revised to a new 20-item HVS with shorter, simpler items (usually only one sentence instead of two sentences per item in the past version) and introducing a single ...

Germany Should Accelerate Its Renewable Energy Transition

Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. We argue that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies, such as wind and solar power, heat pumps and electric cars are needed.

Patient-driven Information Flow and Practice Style Spillover

Access to information is vital to physicians who make critical treatment decisions that shape patients' lives. Although formal channels, such as professional training, medical databases, and clinical guidelines, are well-documented, little is known about informal learning, in which physicians acquire knowledge from peers or patients. In this paper, I study how patients act as carriers of clinical...

Inventors‘ Personal Experience of Natural Disasters and Green Innovation

We show that personal experiences affect high-stakes economic decisions among inventors. Using matched patent and survey data from French and German inventors linked to natural disaster records, we exploit exogenous variation in disaster exposure. Inventors personally affected by natural disasters subsequently produce 8.2 percent more green patents, primarily driven by emission-reducing mitigation...

Part-time Traps (joint with Jan Berendsen, Iris Kesternich and Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann)

Most women reduce their labor supply after childbirth. When children become older, most women spend less time on women spend less time on childcare activities. Yet, female labor supply recovers little as children age and part-time work remains common among mothers of older children. Understanding the motivation behind labor supply choices of women with older children is crucial to design effective...

Raising the Retirement Age for Women. Spillover Effects on Young Adults’ Labor Supply in Brazil**CANCELLED**

CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS Latin America is facing rapid population aging. To address the sustainability of contributory pension systems, many countries are considering increasing the retirement age. One such case is Brazil, where a pension reform in 2019 raised the retirement age from 60 to 62 for women. While the effects of such reforms on the labor force participation of older adults and their...