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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
Standard IAMs typically use CRRA welfare, where a single curvature parameter jointly governs intergenerational weighting and interregional equity, so comparative statics in “inequality aversion” necessarily change discounting. I implement Fehr–Schmidt (FS) inequality aversion in the RICE model to separate directional interregional equity (envy and guilt) from intergenerational weighting, with an...
09.04.2026| Thomas Kohler
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
We study the political consequences of energy price shocks for households, using electricity price increases in Germany during the 2022-2023 energy price crisis as an example. Building on original four wave panel survey data, we exploit plausibly exogenous and staggered variation in timing of electricity instalment increases generated by the German billing system. We find that higher...
07.05.2026| Jan Steckel
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SÖT Brown Bag Seminar
How large is geographic leakage resulting from place-based environmental policy? We study this question in the context of the landmark US Clean Air Act Amendments. Our paper makes three primary contributions. First, using modern event-study tech- niques and confidential US Census data, we revisit seminal results characterizing the effects of this environmental regulation on directly regulated...
11.06.2026| Felix Samy Soliman
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SOEPpapers 1236 / 2026
Using long running panel data spanning at least 15 years from Australia, Germany and the UK, this study investigates longitudinal age–wellbeing trajectories by the Big Five personality traits. We estimate within person (fixed effects) models separately for each country and for low/high trait subgroups, producing 30 distinct trajectories. Across all subgroups, we found the same ageing pattern: a decline ...
2026| Alan Piper, Min Zou, Ying Zhou
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DIW Discussion Papers 2157 / 2026
In 2001, Germany abolished public occupational disability insurance (ODI)—the second tier of its public DI system—for cohorts born after 1960. Using administrative data, we first document that, in the long run, overall DI inflows declined by roughly one-third. Second, using representative survey data, we document at best modest ODI insurance take-up responses in the private individual, risk-rated market, ...
2026| Yaming Cao, Björn Fischer-Weckemann, Johannes Geyer, Nicolas Ziebarth
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Externe Working Papers
We study the role of social image in influencing lying behavior through a pre-registered within-subject experiment embedded in the 2020 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). By exogenously manipulating the observability of lying across two tasks, we explore how individuals respond to increased image costs of lying. By exploiting the rich comprehensive socio-demographic ...
SSRN,
2025,
46 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Ciril Bosch-Rosa, Daniele Nosenzo, Levent Neyse
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Externe Working Papers
Job-related relocations are common. Standard economic models typically treat workers as isolated individuals, while most workers live and move as part of a couple. Using a dynamic event study with synthetic comparison groups and German data, we show that women within couples frequently become “tied movers”: following relocation, male partners experience substantial earnings gains (as both hourly wages ...
SSRN,
2025,
30 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Francesca Verga
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Externe Working Papers
This study investigates the mediating role of psychosocial factors, including behaviors and motivations, in the association between school absences and academic achievement. Using comprehensive longitudinal data from England, linking National Pupil Database (NPD) school register data with Millennium Cohort Study (MCS) survey data (N=7,204), the analysis explores the impact of absences at ages 12/13 ...
OSF,
2025,
64 S.
(OSF Preprints;Preprints / PsyArXiv)
| Jascha Dräger, Edward Sosu, Markus Klein
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Externe Working Papers
This study examines whether having daughters affects political preferences and if effects vary across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preferences for gender equality ...
SSRN,
2025,
25 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This article addressed the critical issue of citizens’ attitudes toward law enforcement, focusing on motivational postures toward the police (i.e., the psychological dispositions that individuals maintain toward the police). The study contributes by providing the first validated motivational postures scale toward the police in Spanish. It responds to a gap in research on motivational postures within ...
In:
Peace and Conflict
31 (2025), 3, S. 285-298
| Monica M. Gerber, Luciano Sáez-Fuentealba, Joaquín Bahamondes, Ana Figueiredo, Cristóbal Moya, Bruno Rojas, Macarena Orchard, Nicolás Tobar Jorquera