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DIW Weekly Report 34 / 2021
Childcare workers are essential for both families and society at large, and their working conditions and pay are often a topic of discussion. Using new data spanning until the end of 2019 from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) as well as a special SOEP additional survey in day care centers, this report shows how childcare workers view their occupation, day-to-day work, and pay. According to the data, ...
2021| Ludovica Gambaro, C. Katharina Spieß, Franz G. Westermaier
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Children have a low risk for severe COVID-19 infections, but indirect consequences of the pandemic may affect their health. We evaluated nationwide data on children’s outpatient visits before and during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Data from the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians for all children with statutory health insurance and at least one physician’s ...
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Children
8 (2021), 9, 728, 9 S.
| Mara Barschkett, Berthold Koletzko, C. Katharina Spiess
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For climate change mitigation, a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels such as coal is necessary. This has far-reaching gender-specific consequences. This paper presents a systematic map of the literature that examines the impact of historical coal phase-out processes on women and their role in these processes. The search process consisted of screening over 3100 abstracts and reading 247 full-text studies. ...
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Energies
14 (2021), 18, 5985, 27 S.
| Paula Walk, Isabell Braunger, Josephine Semb, Carolin Brodtmann, Pao-Yu Oei, Claudia Kemfert
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines medium and long-term perspectives for global steam coal production and trade, considering the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and plausible recovery scenarios in its aftermath. We use an interdisciplinary approach to develop a range of stylized global coal demand scenarios until 2040 depicting the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting recovery stimuli. Additional ...
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Applied Energy
288 (2021), 116564, 16 S.
| Paola Yanguas Parra, Christian Hauenstein, Pao-Yu Oei
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Session #3: With contributions from Dr. Michael Pahle and Dr. Sebastian Osorio. Final workshop of the BMBF Research Project "Future of Fossil Fuels in the Wake of Greenhouse Gas Neutrality (FFF)”
07.10.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Session #2 by DIW Berlin: With contributions from Dr. Wolf-Peter Schill, Martin Kittel and Carlos David Gaete Morales, Ph.D. Final workshop of the BMBF Research Project "Future of Fossil Fuels in the Wake of Greenhouse Gas Neutrality (FFF)”
07.10.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Session #1 by TU Berlin: With contributions from Christian Hauenstein, Karlo Hainsch und Paula Walk. Final workshop of the BMBF Research Project "Future of Fossil Fuels in the Wake of Greenhouse Gas Neutrality (FFF)”
07.10.2021| Veranstaltungsrückblick
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The power sector needs to ensure a rapid transition towards a low-carbon energy system to avoid the dangerous consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Storage technologies are a promising option to provide the power system with the flexibility required when intermittent renewables are present in the electricity generation mix. This paper focuses on the role of electricity storage in energy systems ...
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Energy Policy
151 (2021), 112159, 19 S.
| Sara Giarola, Anahi Molar-Cruz, Kathleen Vaillancourt, Olivier Bahn, Luis Sarmiento, Adam Hawkes, Maxwell Brown
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Air pollution’s influence on cognitive productivity is a highly relevant and not fully understood economic issue. This study provides evidence of an adverse effect of exposure on the productivity of Mexican judicial workers. The empirical strategy approximates productivity with the length of the hearing and infers causality through instrumental variable panel models. Results show that nitrogen dioxides ...
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
124 (2022), 1, S. 301-332
| Luis Sarmiento
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The transformation of the electricity sector is a central element of the transition to a decarbonized economy. Conventional generators powered by fossil fuels have to be replaced by variable renewable energy (VRE) sources in combination with electricity storage and other options for providing temporal flexibility. We discuss the market dynamics of increasing VRE penetration and its integration in the ...
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Annual Review of Resource Economics
13 (2021), S. 443-467
| Javier López Prol, Wolf-Peter Schill