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Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax‐and‐transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life‐cycle model, we determine that the tax‐and‐transfer system offsets 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in productive abilities ...
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Quantitative Economics
16 (2025), 2, S. 565–613
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller
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On June 25th, 2025, the Future Power Markets Platform (Karsten Neuhoff) and Future Power Markets Forum (Benjamin Hobbs) jointly organized a Webinar, to get first hand insights from people involved during the implementation of nodal pricing across North American market regions. The first part of the webinar – input presentations from each of the four experts – is included in this recording.
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While the body of literature on the non-take-up of public aid has grown substantially in recent years, a notable gap remains in the literature of non-take-up rates for student aid programs, where research is still extremely limited. This paper examines the non-take-up rate of Germany’s federal student aid program BAföG by creating a microsimulation based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel ...
2025| Alexander Eriksson Byström, María Sól Antonsdóttir
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We employ a control function methodology, complemented by various identification strategies, to causally estimate the heterogeneous effects of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) across 46 two-digit manufacturing and service industries in Germany from 2010 to 2015. Throughout this period, the availability of broadband, defined as access to transmission rates of at least ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
237 (2025), 107133, 18 S.
| Tomaso Duso, Mattia Nardotto, Alexander Schiersch
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