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DIW Weekly Report 33 / 2018
Power generation from lignite and hard coal was responsible for more than a quarter of German greenhouse gas emissions in 2016. Of all federal states, North Rhine-Westphalia is by far the largest carbon emitter. The Growth, Structural Change and Regional Development Commission (also known as “Coal Commission”) among others are currently debating alternative pathways toward a coal phaseout to achieve ...
2018| Leonard Göke, Martin Kittel, Claudia Kemfert, Casimir Lorenz, Pao-Yu Oei, Christian von Hirschhausen
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DIW Discussion Papers 1753 / 2018
It is well established that teachers are the most important in-school factorin determining student outcomes. However, to date there is scant robustquantitative research demonstrating that teacher training programs can havelasting impacts on student test scores. To address this gap, weconduct andevaluate a teacher peer-to-peer observation and feedback program underRandomized Control Trial (RCT) conditions. ...
2018| Richard Murphy, Felix Weinhardt, Gill Wyness
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Related to the increased encouragement of public transport (PT) by policy-makers, over-crowding in PT has become a major issue worldwide. Whilst the impact of in-vehicle crowding on individuals' travel costs has been considered, we focus on aggregate welfare losses. We apply a Pigouvian framework to the case of subways and compute the economic cost of congestion (ECC). We combine data of the 14 metro ...
In:
Economics of Transportation
14 (2018), S. 1-8
| Luke Haywood, Martin Koning, Remy Prud'homme
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SOEPpapers 977 / 2018
Using representative household survey panel data from Germany, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that have individually been found significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems but have never been tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors, i.e. the expected costs ...
2018| Anke Jacksohn, Peter Grösche, Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder
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SOEPpapers 978 / 2018
High-worth individuals are typically underrepresented or completely missing in population surveys. The lack of a register-based sampling frame on high-worth individuals in many countries challenged previous attempts to sample high-worth individuals in voluntary scientific surveys. In a novel research design, we draw on register data on the shareholding structures of companies as a sampling frame. Our ...
2018| Carsten Schröder, Charlotte Bartels, Markus M. Grabka, Martin Kroh, Rainer Siegers
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DIW Discussion Papers 1747 / 2018
Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three years among industrialized countries on ...
2018| Kai-Uwe Müller, Katharina Wrohlich
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DIW Discussion Papers 1751 / 2018
The use of video recordings in experimental economics has become increasingly popular. However, little attention is paid to how this might affect the composition of the participating subjects and the intended treatment effect. We make a first attempt to shed light on these issues and address them in an incentivized face-to-face tax compliance experiment. The experiment contains two dimensions; i) the ...
2018| Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari
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Externe Working Papers
We develop a multi-horizon stochastic equilibrium model for analyzing energy markets, with particular attention to infrastructure development and renewable energy policies in perfect and imperfect market structures. By decoupling short-term operational decisions feedback from long-term strategic investment decisions, the multi-horizon approach allows to consider long-term and short-term uncertainties ...
Trondheim:
NTNU,
2015,
44 S.
(Working Papers / Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies ; 2)
| Zhonghua Su, Ruud Egging, Daniel Huppmann, Asgeir Tomasgard
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This modeling comparison exercise looks at the global consequences of increased shale gas production in the U.S. and increased gas demand from Asia. We find that differences in models' theoretical construct and assumptions can lead to divergences in their predictions about the consequences of U.S. shale gas boom. In general, models find that U.S. High Shale Gas scenario leads to increased U.S. production, ...
In:
Energy Economics
60 (2016), S. 405-415
| Sonia Yeh, Yiyong Cai, Daniel Huppman, Paul Bernstein, Sugandha Tuladhar, Hillard G. Huntington
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DIW Weekly Report 32 / 2018
Duties and taxes on cars are an important source of revenue for European governments and the tax systems are also designed with the goal of achieving environmental policy objectives. A systematic and quantitative comparison of passenger car taxation in 30 European countries shows significant differences among them. However, in almost every country, the use of vehicles with diesel engines is taxed less ...
2018| Uwe Kunert