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Refereed essays Web of Science
Coal consumption and production have sharply declined in recent years in the U.S., despite political support. Reasons are mostly unfavorable economic conditions for coal, including competition from natural gas and renewables in the power sector, as well as an aging coal-fired power plant fleet. Nevertheless, coal remains a major energy source in the North American energy markets. Supplementing EMF34 ...
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Energy Policy
149 (2021), 112097, 13 S.
| Christian Hauenstein, Franziska Holz
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DIW Discussion Papers 1928 / 2021
In 2020, Berlin enacted a rigorous rent-control policy: the “Mietendeckel” (rent freeze), aiming to stop rapidly growing rental prices. We evaluate this newly enacted but old-fashionably designed policy by analyzing its immediate supply-side effects. Using a rich pool of rent advertisements reporting asking rents and comprehensive dwelling characteristics, we perform hedonic-style Difference-in-Difference ...
2021| Anja M. Hahn, Konstantin A. Kholodilin, Sofie R. Waltl
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The 2D: 4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the second finger to the length of the fourth finger, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study reported, among other things, an association between the left-hand 2D:4D and self-employment in a sample of 974 adults. In this preregistered study, we replicate the 2D:4D results on a sample of more than 2100 adults ...
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Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice
46 (2022), 1, S. 21–43
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
Common ownership - when an investor holds shares in two companies - has recently attracted significant attention from policy-makers and researchers, studying mainly US firms. European firms, however, are different as top investors with large stakes, like governments, founding families and foundations are much more prevalent. This paper takes a well-known common ownership measure derived from...
05.03.2021| Nuria Boot, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
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Brown Bag Seminar Industrial Economics
We provide a description of ownership patterns in the top 25 European banks for the period 2003–2015, where we especially focus on the global financial crisis. Investment managers, such as Blackrock, are dominant in terms of number of block holdings in different banks, maintaining fairly stable “common ownership” networks throughout our sample. However, the financial crisis led...
05.03.2021| Jo Seldeslachts, DIW Berlin and KU Leuven
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Workshop
Today, half of the world’s migrants are female, amounting to 114 million individuals in 2017. The intersection between migration and gender has profound consequences for individuals: gender affects, amongst others migration motifs, selection into migration, as well as decisions on destination countries. Further, the experiences in the host country are gender-specific and especially so when...
06.05.2021
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study examines the association between parental separations during childhood and economic wealth of adult children. We provide a new test of this relationship and address two unresolved debates in the literature concerning (1) the pathways linking parental separation and adult children’s wealth and (2) the relevance of the timing of exposure. We use data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics ...
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Social Forces
99 (2021), 3, S. 1176–1208
| Philipp M. Lersch, Janeen Baxter
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This survey study assesses attitudes of the German public regarding COVID-19 health communications with varying degrees of scientific uncertainty.
In:
JAMA Network Open
3 (2020), 12, e2032335, 5 S.
| Odette Wegwarth, Gert G. Wagner, Claudia Spies, Ralph Hertwig
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Decades of studies identify personality traits as an important predictor of life outcomes. However, previous investigations of personality-outcome associations have not taken a principled approach to covariate use or other sampling strategies to ensure the robustness of personality-outcome associations. The result is that it is unclear (1)...
27.01.2021| Emorie Beck, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany resulted in differing gender norms regarding who should be the family breadwinner. We use data for three periods between 1983 and 2016 from the German Socio-Economic Panel. ...
In:
Socio-Economic Review
20 (2022), 1, S. 257-279
| Maximilian Sprengholz, Anna Wieber, Elke Holst