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Workshop
Facebook announced the introduction of a "New Global Digital Payment Coin" called Libra for the first half of 2020 to enable foremost payment services in "WhatsApp" and "Facebook Messenger". Libra is built on a distributed ledger technology (DLT) environment developed by Facebook. Libra is a so-called “Stable Coin”, which is a crypto-asset that is tied to a basket of bank deposits and...
30.10.2019
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Refereed essays Web of Science
To internalize pollution externalities into household waste generation, Unit Pricing Systems (UPS) have been adopted worldwide. This paper evaluates the causal effects of a UPS on the disposal of municipal solid waste in Trento, Italy. Using a unique panel dataset of monthly waste generation in Italian municipalities, we employ the synthetic control method, which allows us to account for possible time-varying ...
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Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
96 (2019), S. 274-285
| Matheus Bueno, Marica Valente
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Workshop
Financial systems have developed rapidly in many developing countries. These changes increase the need for research into their effects. To this end DIW Berlin will host a workshop in the field of “Finance and Development” to be held in Berlin on April 23 in the afternoon and full day April 24, 2020.
Attendance by invitation!
23.04.2020| Emily L. Breza, Harvard University
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Refereed essays Web of Science
In the last few years, apps have become an important tool to collect data. Especially in the case of data on people’s happiness, two projects have received substantial attention from both the media and the scientific world: “Track your happiness” from Killingsworth and Gilbert (Science, 330, 932-932, 2010), and “Mappiness,” from MacKerron (2012). Both happiness apps used the experience sampling method ...
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Applied Research in Quality of Life
15 (2020), 4, S. 1135-1149
| Kai Ludwigs, Richard Lucas, Ruut Veenhoven, David Richter, Lidia Arends
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
In research on stratification and inequality, administrative data are popular for their wide coverage and assumed high quality. Yet, the quality of the data depends crucially on the aim of data collection. In this paper, we investigate the quality of information on education in administrative data from social security records provided by the German Federal Institute for Employment Research where education ...
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Quality & Quantity
54 (2020), 1, S. 3-25
| Jule Adriaans, Peter Valet, Stefan Liebig
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Politikberatung kompakt 142 / 2019
Yemen has been involved in a civil war with foreign military intervention since 2014. Throughout the conflict, the majority of the population have been cut off from the public electricity grid. However, as alternatives have been unavailable, the country has turned to decentralised solar energy, giving rise to an unprecedented deployment of solar (home) systems.
This report uses own calculations, new ...
2019| Dawud Ansari, Claudia Kemfert, Hashem al-Kuhlani
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines the effects of substantial changes in paid parental leave on child development and socio-economic development gaps. We analyse a German reform that replaced a means-tested with an earnings-related benefit scheme. Higher-income households benefited relatively more from the reform than low-income households. The reform expanded paid leave in the first year, while it removed paid leave ...
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Labour Economics
61 (2019), 101754
| Mathias Hübener, Daniel Kuehnle, C. Katharina Spieß
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We study the employment effects of a large increase in the early retirement age (ERA) of women. Raising the ERA has the potential to extend contribution periods and to reduce the number of pensioners at the same time. However, workers may not be able to work longer or may choose other social support programs as exit routes from employment. Results suggest that the reform increases employment, unemployment ...
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Journal of Human Resources
56 (2021), 1, S. 311-341
| Johannes Geyer, Clara Welteke
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We introduce a command, fayherriot, that implements the Fay–Herriot model (Fay and Herriot, 1979, Journal of the American Statistical Association 74: 269–277), which is a small-area estimation technique (Rao and Molina, 2015, Small Area Estimation), in Stata. The Fay–Herriot model improves the precision of area-level direct estimates using area-level covariates. It belongs to the class of linear mixed ...
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The Stata Journal
19 (2019), 3, S. 626-644
| Christoph Halbmeier, Ann-Kristin Kreutzmann, Timo Schmid, Carsten Schröder
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Report
The new issue of the Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 4/2018 (Quarterly Journal of Economic Research) on European banking landscape between diversity, competition and concentration is now available.
Causes and consequences of institutional diversity are a largely neglected issue in economics. Only in finance, institutional variety has been at times acknowledged, though not in its ‘institution-free’ ...
09.10.2019| Dorothea Schäfer