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DIW focus 4 / 2020
Already after the financial crisis in 2008/2009 there was a debate on whether elements aiming at sustainable development can be part of the stimulus packages and support the recovery of the economy. Despite the instinct of policy makers to prioritise battle-tested policies during a crisis, significant levels and different types of climate-friendly components were integrated in the 2009 stimulus packages ...
2020| Mats Kröger, Sun Xi, Olga Chiappinelli, Marius Clemens, Nils May, Karsten Neuhoff, Jörn Richstein
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Prenatal androgens have organizational effects on brain and endocrine system development, which may have a partial impact on economic decisions. Numerous studies have investigated the relationship between prenatal testosterone and financial risk taking, yet results remain inconclusive. We suspect that this is due to difficulty in capturing risk preferences with expected utility based tasks. Prospect ...
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Journal of Risk and Uncertainty
60 (2020), 1, S. 29–51
| Levent Neyse, Ferdinand M. Vieider, Patrick Ring, Catharina Probst, Christian Kaernbach, Thilo van Eimeren, Ulrich Schmidt
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SOEPpapers 1079 / 2020
The paper addresses the impact of digital health technologies on social inequalities in health. We set focus on mobile health technologies (mHealth) and analyse whether (a) usage of such technologies differs by educational level and (b) whether their usage moderate social inequalities in health satisfaction. We first develop a theoretical model in order to establish potential associations between social ...
2020| Tim Sawert, Julia Tuppat
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SOEPpapers 1078 / 2020
Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this article examines whether gender wage differentials occur due to differences in prototypical personality traits of women and men and provides the first application of a gender wage gap decomposition on the basis of a correlated random effects model. Main results show that agreeableness and openness are the most important personality ...
2020| Sina Otten
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Refereed essays Web of Science
AbstractMost studies have treated grandiose narcissism as a unidimensional construct and investigated its associations in cross-sectional convenience samples. The present research systematically addresses these limitations by investigating the associations of agentic and antagonistic aspects of narcissism in the interpersonal, intrapersonal, and institutional domains, cross-sectionally and longitudinally ...
In:
Collabra: Psychology
5 (2019), 1, Art. 26, 15 S.
| Marius Leckelt, David Richter, Eunike Wetzel, Mitja D. Back
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We introduce a selection model‐based multilevel imputation approach to be used within the fully conditional specification framework for multiple imputation. Concretely, we apply a censored bivariate probit model to describe binary variables assumed to be missing not at random. The first equation of the model defines the regression model for the missing data mechanism. The second equation specifies ...
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society / Series C
69 (2020), 3, S. 547–564
| Angelina Hammon, Sabine Zinn
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Most policy instruments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have focused on producers, and on the energy efficiency of buildings, vehicles and other products. Behavioural changes related to climate change also impact ‘in-use’ emissions, and potentially, emissions both ‘upstream’ (including from imported goods) and ‘downstream’ (eg disposal). Consumption-oriented policies may provide avenues to ...
In:
Climate Policy
20 (2020), Suppl. 1, S. S58–S73
| Michael Grubb, Doug Crawford-Brown, Karsten Neuhoff, Karin Schanes, Sonja Hawkins, Alexandra Poncia
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DIW Discussion Papers 1868 / 2020
Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of advanced economies and ensuring long-term economic prosperity. This paper is the first to provide evidence that investment in Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak productivity performance at the ...
2020| Marie Le Mouel, Alexander Schiersch
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Report
Marica Valente, Ph.D. Student in the Energy, Transportation, Environment Department, has been invited to the 7th Lindau Meeting on Economic Sciences. The Nobel Laureate Meeting has chosen 373 young economists from 60 countries to join the conference. Due to the SARS-CoV-pandemie the meeting will be online. The actual meeting will take place in 2021.
We congratulate Marica on this honor.
06.05.2020| Marica Valente
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DIW Weekly Report 19/20 / 2020
Market participants are generally in agreement that the coronavirus pandemic will have a severe impact on the European economy, but it is difficult to predict the length and extent of the pandemic’s effects. However, using the yield curves of corporate bonds, we can reach some preliminary conclusions about the impact of the pandemic. The expectations of financial market participants are revealed in ...
2020| Stephanie Ettmeier, Chi Hyun Kim, Alexander Kriwoluzky