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Externe Working Papers
This paper presents the first empirical analysis of the macroeconomic relationship between environmentally related taxes and inequality in income sources. The analysis also investigates whether this relationship differs between countries which have implemented environmental tax reforms (ETRs) and ones which have not. Following earlier empirical literature, income inequality is measured by the disposable-income-based ...
Paris:
OECD,
2015,
36 S.
(OECD Environment Working Papers ; 100)
| Walid Oueslati, Vera Zipperer, Damien Rousselière, Alexandros Dimitropoulos
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Interview
Mr. Menkhoff, in many countries the law requires financial institutions to give financial advice to people who are going to invest money. How do financial institutions normally assess the risk attitude of their customers?
The most common way involves asking clients to self- assess their attitudes toward risk or their hypothetical response to a risky situation. Typically, clients will choose from a ...
19.10.2016
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Refereed essays Web of Science
The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal (HPG) axes are typically conceptualized as mutually inhibitory systems; however, previous studies have found evidence for positive within-person associations (i.e., coupling) between cortisol and testosterone. One developmental hypothesis is that positive testosterone-cortisol coupling is unique to the adolescent period and ...
In:
Psychoneuroendocrinology
73 (2016), S. 75-90
| K. Paige Harden, Cornelia Wrzus, Gloria Luong, Andrew Grotzinger, Malek Bajbouj, Antje Rauers, Gert G. Wagner, Michaela Riediger
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DIW Discussion Papers 1611 / 2016
This study provides empirical evidence that the costs of austerity crucially depend on the level of private indebtedness. In particular, fiscal consolidations lead to severe contractions when implemented in high private debt states. Contrary, fiscal consolidations have no significant effect on economic activity when private debt is low. These results are robust to alternative definitions of private ...
2016| Mathias Klein
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SOEPpapers 869 / 2016
In recent years, an increasing number of nationally representative surveys in the social sciences and economics have implemented the Big Five model of personality. While many personality inventories were originally developed in the context of self-administered questionnaires, they are often used by large surveys in face-to-face interview settings instead. Drawing on an experimental research design, ...
2016| Luisa Hilgert, Martin Kroh, David Richter
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SOEPpapers 868 / 2016
The paper demonstrates how Sen’s (1985) alternative approach to welfare economics can be used to shed light on the wellbeing of very young children. More specifically, we estimate versions of the three key relations from his framework using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP, 2012) Survey. Our primary models provide evidence that skills are related to involvement in cognate activities ...
2016| Paul Anand, Laurence Roope
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Video
Jennifer Hunt is a Professor of Economics at Rutgers University. Born in Australia and raised in Switzerland, she has held teaching and research posts in Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, and the USA. She served in the Obama administration as Chief Economist in the US Department of Labor from 2013-2014 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconometric Analysis in the US Department of the...
17.10.2016| SOEP People
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Personnel news
Philipp Kaminsky began training as a Specialist in Market and Social Research (FAMS) at the SOEP in early October. The SOEP is in its sixth year of offering training for FAMS, and five SOEP trainees have already graduated from the program.
17.10.2016
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Personnel news
Successor of Simone Bartsch in PIAAC-L will be Luise Burkhardt. Luise studied sociology at the Technische Universität Dresden and at the University of Potsdam. Her master’s thesis examined the role of volunteer work in retirement based on an empirical investigation of retirees’ volunteer activities in the health field. Prior to accepting this position, Luise worked as a student assistant ...
17.10.2016
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DIW Discussion Papers 1609 / 2016
The study aims to assess the distributional effects of taxing financial transactions including a focus on gender. It specifically investigates the impact of the low interest rate environment on tax revenues and distribution. The first part of the study is explorative, aiming to develop a concept for the assessment. This is because the role of low or even negative interest rates is not yet specifically ...
2016| Dorothea Schäfer