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AI Adoption by Human Experts: Evidence from Primary Care Physicians

AI can raise productivity by extracting information from rich data, yet little is known about how experts weigh AI-generated signals against established decision-support tools. We conduct a nationwide survey experiment with 372 Danish primary care physicians (21.5% of all clinics), who make diagnostic and treatment decisions on urinary tract infection vignettes before and after receiving a diagnostic ...

The Financial Risks of Delays in Nuclear Waste Disposal: A Stochastic Analysis of Germany’s Waste Fund KENFO

Germany is tasked with ensuring the safe and final storage of high-level radioactive waste in a deep geological repository. Since 2022, the ambitious target year of 2031 to identify a suitable location for such a site has been deferred by most public actors. The target year was pushed back by several decades to 2046 or even 2068, consequently delaying the completion of all waste management activities ...

How many people are living in a forced marriage in Germany? A Network Scale-Up approach to estimate hidden human rights abuse

Forced marriage is a critical human rights violation. Challenges associated with estimating its prevalence hamper informed policy making and effective allocation of resources for victim support. This study employs a high-quality online access panel and the Network Scale-Up Method (NSUM) to estimate the prevalence of forced marriages in Germany. Using aggregated relational data and Bayesian models,...

Indirect vs. direct media effects: Local media coverage and migration concerns

Attitudes toward immigration rank among the most politically consequential issues in contemporary Western democracies, yet the mechanisms through which media coverage shapes those attitudes remain incompletely understood. Existing research has documented a robust association between migration-related news coverage and people’s opinions, but by relying on aggregate national press data without...

Adult Education and Political Participation: Evidence from East German Volkshochschulen

This paper examines the effects of voluntary, non-formal adult education on political attitudes, participation, and partisanship, exploiting the expansion of courses at East German Volkshochschulen (VHS) after reunification. Combining administrative VHS data with individual survey data and federal election results, we use quasi-random variation in local course availability to identify causal effects ...

Industrial Relations and Working from Home in Germany during the COVID-19 Pandemic

We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP-CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant-level co-determination are associated with the incidence and frequency of working from home. Controlling ...

Resilience of R&D of Multinational Companies: Insights of Two Crises

This study investigates the R&D behavior of the world’s top R&D investors during the Great Financial Crisis and the COVID-19 crisis. Focusing on the resilience of corporate R&D activities, we explore two dimensions: stability and adaptability. Using two large datasets on the world’s leading R&D-investing companies covering the periods 2004–2010 and 2015–2021, thus including both crises, our analysis ...

Unequal Returns: Gendered and Origin-Based Disparities in Initial Refugee Employment Trajectories in Germany

This article examines origin- and gender-based disparities in labourmarket integration of refugees in Germany, comparing Ukrainian refugees with refugees from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Using longitudinal data from the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Refugee Survey and the IAB-BiB/FReDA-BAMF-SOEP Ukrainian Refugee Survey, we trace labour-force participation (LFP) and employment rates during the first three ...

An Underestimated Policy Lever: The ECB’s Collateral Policy Supports Financial Markets and Reduces Uncertainty

A central bank’s collateral policy determines which assets banks may use as collateral for refinancing operations. Thus, it is a critical tool for providing the banking system with liquidity while simultaneously stabilizing it. Using a high-frequency identification approach, this study examines how the European Central Bank’s collateral policy influences banks, financial markets, and government bond ...

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