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Refereed essays Web of Science
Children's development is fostered by both high quality Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) settings and high quality home learning environments. As we know little about the interrelations between these two environments, we examine whether the child's attendance in a high quality ECEC arrangement relates to the quality of her home learning environment. Using rich NICHD Study of Early Child Care ...
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Education Economics
27 (2019), 3, S. 265-286
| Susanne Kuger, Jan Marcus, C. Katharina Spieß
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We empirically investigate the possibility that a decision maker prefers to avoid making a decision and instead delegates it to an external device, e.g., a coin flip. A large data set from the centralized clearinghouse for university admissions in Germany shows a choice pattern of applicants that is consistent with coin flipping and that entails substantial consequences for the matching outcome. In ...
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Journal of Public Economics
167 (2018), S. 240-250
| Nadja Dwenger, Dorothea Kübler, Georg Weizsäcker
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Competitive escalation occurs frequently in managerial environments, when decisions create sunk costs and decision makers compete under time pressure. In a series of experiments using a minimal dollar auction paradigm, we test interventions to prevent competitive escalation. Without any intervention, most people, including experienced managers, escalate and lose money by bidding more than the price ...
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Journal of Behavioral Decision Making
31 (2018), 5, S. 695-714
| Sebastian Hafenbrädl, Jan K. Woike
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DIW Discussion Papers 1785 / 2019
Case and Deaton (2015) document that, since 1998, midlife mortality rates are increasing for white non-Hispanics in the US. This trend is driven by deaths from drug overdoses, suicides, and alcohol-related diseases, termed as deaths of despair, and by the subgroup of low-educated individuals. In contrast, average mortality for middle-aged men and women continued to decrease in several other high-income ...
2019| Peter Haan, Anna Hammerschmid, Julia Schmieder
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Congratulations to Philipp Kaminsky for passing his FAMS final exam on January 24, 2019!
Philipp will be supporting the SOEP team in the SOEP Research Data Center (SOEP-RDC) by answering questions and requests on the SOEP-Hotline and taking care of contract management.
01.02.2019
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SOEPpapers 1012 / 2018
The human personality predicts a wide range of activities and occupational choices—from musical sophistication to entrepreneurial careers. However, which method should be applied if information on personality traits is used for prediction and advice? In psychological research, group profiles are widely employed. In this contribution, we examine the performance of profiles using the example of career ...
2018| Alexander Konon, Alexander Kritikos
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SOEPpapers 1007 / 2018
We present empirical evidence on the heterogeneity in monetary policy transmission across countries with different home ownership rates. We use household-level data together with shocks to the policy rate identified from high-frequency data. We find that housing tenure reacts more strongly to unexpected changes in the policy rate in Germany and Switzerland –the OECD countries with the lowest home ownership ...
2018| Winfried Koeniger, Marc-Antoine Ramelet
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SOEPpapers 1008 / 2018
This paper studies whether higher education tuition fees influence the intention to acquire a university degree among high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We analyze the introduction and subsequent elimination of university tuition fees in Germany across states and over time in a difference-in-differences setting. Using data ...
2018| Michael Bahrs, Thomas Siedler
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DIW Discussion Papers 1783 / 2019
Fairtrade certification aims at transferring wealth from the consumer to the farmer; however, coffee passes through many hands before reaching final consumers. Bringing together retail, wholesale, and stock market data, this study estimates how much more consumers are paying for Fairtrade-certified coffee in US supermarkets and finds estimates around $1 per lb. I then assess how this price premium ...
2019| Helene Naegele
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Based on a 12 years panel data set for franchised regional rail services, this paper studies the impact of including service quality into an analysis of efficiency differences between the German public transport authorities (PTAs) in using their available public funds. The analysis employs a two-stage efficiency analysis with a Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in the first stage and a Tobit panel model ...
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Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
119 (2019), S. 284-300
| Heike Link