How do courts award noneconomic damages? Does it matter if the state is the defendant? This article addresses these questions in the context of medical malpractice appeals to the Spanish Supreme Court. Moreover, this study provides the first empirical analysis of the quantification of noneconomic damages in medical malpractice cases in administrative courts, where the state is the defendant, and in ...
In light of the recent worldwide migration of refugees, determinants of a more or less successful integration are heavily discussed, but reliable empirical investigations are scarce and have often focused on sociodemographic factors. In the present study, we explore the role of several individual characteristics for refugee adjustment in the areas of (a) institutional, (b) interpersonal and (c) intrapersonal ...
Researchers at the SOEP on the topic Dynamics of Well-Being and Health Subjective Well-Being Personality Pro-Social Behavior Health Mental Health Responsible: Carsten Schröder Dynamics of Well-Being and Health
Researchers at the SOEP on the topic Survey Methodology and Data Science Weighting Record Linkage Data Collection as a Social Process Imputation Data Science Survey Lifecycle Operations Responsible: Jan Goebel, Sabine Zinn, Christian Hunkler Survey Methodology and Data Science
Researchers at the SOEP on Migration and Integration Migration Refugees Responsible: Sabine Zinn Migration and Integration
Inequality and Mobility Dynamics of Well-Being and Health Migration and Integration Survey Methodology and Data Science Researchers on the SOEP team use the data to study processes of transformation and change in our society. One important area of research deals with the question of how equally or unequally societal resources such as income and wealth are distributed, and how access to education and ...
To internalize pollution externalities of municipal waste, Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) pricing schemes for unsorted waste are adopted worldwide. This paper estimates causal effects of PAYT on unsorted, recycling and total waste generation, and analyzes the determinants of policy adoption and compliance. The empirical strategy uses a multiple random forest approach on a unique six-year panel data...
Diese Dissertation analysiert die Auswirkungen von Rentenreformen auf Beschäftigung, Rentenalter, Alterseinkommen, Sparverhalten und Gesundheit. Dabei wird der Heterogenität der Effekte besondere Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt und auf mögliche Folgen für die Ungleichheit hingewiesen. Die Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten. In der ersten Studie werden die Auswirkungen einer Erhöhung ...
We study the literature on school financial education programs for children and youth via aquantitative meta-analysis of 37 (quasi-) experiments. We find that financial education treatmenthas, on average, a significant and sizeable impact on financial knowledge (+0.25 SD), similar toeducational interventions in other domains. Additionally, we document small but still significanteffects on financial ...
