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DIW Weekly Report 40 / 2018
Households in developing countries are exposed to increasingly extreme weather events that could endanger their prosperity. This study examines the impact of the unusually cold, snowy winter of 2009/2010 on the livestock of Mongolian households. Livestock represents on average more than 90 percent of the value of all assets owned. It is essential for current consumption and—due to the insufficient ...
2018| Katharina Lehmann-Uschner, Kati Kraehnert
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DIW Weekly Report 40 / 2018
As climate change progresses, extreme weather events are occurring more often, with developing countries suffering the brunt. Using Mongolia as an example, this study examines how extremely cold and snowy winters—which lead to high livestock mortality and thus threaten the livelihood of many households—impact children’s school completion. The results, based on a representative household survey conducted ...
2018| Kati Kraehnert, Valeria Groppo
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DIW Weekly Report 40 / 2018
Weather index insurance is considered a promising international climate policy instrument that can help households adapt better to climate change. This is especially true in developing countries where households often suffer severely from the consequences of extreme weather events. This report is one of the first to evaluate the impact of a globally recognized index insurance, Mongolia’s Index-Based ...
2018| Kati Kraehnert, Veronika Bertram-Huemmer
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Weekly Report
In parts of Germany this summer, temperatures were extremely high and there was no rain to speak of: this is an example of an extreme weather event. Many people experienced physical discomfort and the livelihoods of some were threatened. Think of crop damage due to drought. Every unusually hot summer is not the consequence of climate change, nor are all hurricanes and all floods. Earlier decades also ...
11.10.2018| Kati Krähnert
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DIW Discussion Papers 1758 / 2018
The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification of preferences and constraints. Both, preferences and restrictions are allowed to vary by and are related ...
2018| Kai-Uwe Müller, Michael Neumann, Katharina Wrohlich
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Report
DIW Berlin is part of a new Cluster of Excellence based in Berlin. Contestations of the Liberal Scripts (SCRIPTS) will analyze the contemporary controversies regarding the liberal order from a historical, global, and comparative perspective. Prof. Martin Kroh of the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) at DIW Berlin is one of the 25 researchers participating in the Cluster.
Twenty-five years after the end ...
11.10.2018| Martin Kroh, Mathilde Richter
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Workshop
or the analysis of future German and European energy policy, widely varying assumptions about costs and technical characteristics of power generation technologies are taken. In particular, this concerns the development of costs for solar and wind technologies, as well as nuclear, coal, and gas fired power plants together with their respective production flexibility. Moreover, cost assumptions are...
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
This paper investigates the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, "Obamacare") on out-of-pocket medical expenditures and access to health care for households across the income distribution. Using a DDD identification strategy and simulated eligibility instruments, I parameterize three of the central policy provisions of the ACA: Medicaid expansion, insurance exchange...
17.10.2018| Cortnie Anne Shupe
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
We present evidence that the practice of holding back poorly performing students affects estimates of the impact of class size on student outcomes based on within-school variation of cohort size over time. This type of variation is commonly used to identify class size effects. We build a theoretical model in which cohort size is subject to random shocks and students whose performance falls...
31.10.2018| Maximilian Bach