In this project, we are investigating the effects in Germany and France of a series of measures that have directly or indirectly changed the pension entitlements of people whose careers have been interrupted due to health problems or labor market crises.
On December 11, Cristóbal Moya successfully defended his dissertation with the title “The Politics of Unjust Inequalities: From Injustice Perceptions to Protest and Redistribution” at Bielefeld University. The committee included Prof. Dr. Carsten Sauer (supervisor and first reviewer, Bielefeld University), Prof. Dr. Stefan Liebig (second reviewer, FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Sonja Blum (committee chairmanship, ...
In recent decades, the share of very young children in daycare has significantly increased in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the critical role of child health in development and later life success, the impact of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. This study examines the effects of a substantial daycare expansion in Germany on ...
Social relationships are central to well-being because they fulfill social affiliation needs. To explain how social needs are regulated, theories describe daily-life processes among social desire, social contact, and affect. Still, these processes remain empirically underexplored because of their complexity. In this study, we estimated multivariate associations of social desire and affect with social ...
We investigate how fuel taxation reduces climate and pollution externalities by evaluating the world’s largest environmental tax reform. Using spatially detailed emissions data from more than 1,000 European regions in a synthetic difference-in-differences framework, we evaluate the impact of Germany’s 1999 ecological tax reform on transport-related carbon and air pollutant emissions. We document sizable ...
Many debates highlight that EU ETS and Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) fail to adequately address exports, resource shuffling and the value chain. These issues are now of particular concern, because (i) the fragmented global climate policy landscape risks further delays in global carbon pricing and (ii) the vulnerability of domestic industries has increased due to energy price shocks and...
This presentation will provide an overview of the current energy political landscape in the United States under the current Trump Administration with a focus on nuclear power projects. This will include an overview of recent policy changes and the implications for reactor restarts, SMR (small modular reactor) projects, and their useability for data centers.
