Abstract: In this paper we empirically investigate the intergenerational transfer of a gender gap in labor force participation. Specifically, we analyze the extent to which the family and the local community nurture the gender gap. We utilize extremely rich registry data that allows us to estimate the effect of gender on labor force participation in sibling fixed effects models, and study how the...
The project is conducted under the banner of the 2013 Dahrendorf Symposium, Working Group 2 "Governance and Policy Aspects of Climate Change".In the uncertain post-Kyoto climate policy arrangement, the role of the EU as a driving force of climate change mitigation efforts seems to be gaining importance. But the common EU climate and energy policy, even though defined on a European level, is driven...
The US Embassy and the Climate Policy Department of DIW Berlin cordially invite you to a roundtable discussion with Reed Hundt, CEO of the Coalition for Green Capital on the topic: Stimulating Finance in the Low-Carbon Economy.As Europe, and Germany, consider ways to expand financial investment in energy efficiency, we would like to discuss how financiers make decisions about investments in...
The EUREEM project assesses how the refinement and implementation of the EU Renewable Energy Directive can aid the energy transition in Germany. Refinement and implementation needs to take account of complex decision process and the need to account of multiple interests at the European level. Hence, a constructive proposal for the refinement of the directive needs to consider a longer-term...
This project reviewed the adjustments of the feed-in tariffs for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in Germany. As PV system prices declined rapidly since 2009, the German government implemented automatic mechanisms to adjust the remuneration level for new installations in response to deployment volumes. The project developed an analytic model to simulate weekly installations of PV systems...
This study aims to explore poverty measures, its dynamics and determinants using Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) and consumption poverty. Our results show that the two measures assign similar poverty status to about 52 percent of households and that both approaches confirm poverty is mainly transient in rural Ethiopia. However, we find that the trend in adjusted head count poverty is different ...
The SOEPnewsletter 100 / 2013 is ready for download.We inform you about... · the new IAB-SOEP immigrant sample (Comment) · several SOEPcampus workshops· our special: xelebrating our 100th issue of the SOEPnewsletter· 3rd wave of FiD (Families in Germany) data · a SOEP timeline ...
This paper studies the long-term impact of societal socialization on values using the example of doping behavior in sports. We apply the German Reunification Approach to the microcosm of Berlin and exploit its 40-year long division into a capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose attitudes toward doping to test the impact of ideology on values since (i) post-1989 disappointed economic ...
