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Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It

Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that cognitive skills start declining by age 30 if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major threat to the human capital of societies with rapidly aging populations. We estimate actual age-skill profiles from individual changes in literacy and numeracy skills at different ages. We use the unique German longitudinal component of the ...

Patience and Subnational Differences in Human Capital: Regional Analysis with Facebook Interests

Decisions to invest in human capital depend on people's time preferences. This paper shows that differences in patience are closely related to substantial subnational differences in educational achievement, leading to new perspectives on longstanding within-country disparities. We use social-media data – Facebook interests – to construct novel regional measures of patience within Italy and the United ...

How Long Will You Be a Widow? Trends and Income Gradient in Widowhood

Understanding widowhood duration is essential for individuals and effective widow support policies, yet widowhood duration remains an understudied topic. In this article, we provide a quantitative estimation of the impact of three primary determinants of expected widowhood duration at age 60 in a unified framework: (1) the degree of overlap between male and female mortality distributions, (2) the spousal ...

Targeting Viewers’ Heterogeneous Ad Aversion: Evidence from a Two-Sided Market

This paper studies the role of viewers’ heterogeneous ad aversion on media content demand and advertisers’ willingness to pay. High-frequency individual-level data on broadcast media content allows us to track viewers’ minute-by-minute choices within the set of available alternatives. We first illustrate the potential selection biases that arise when using aggregated market-level data to estimate...

Does Perceived Social Cohesion Moderate the Effect of Parental Stressors on Depressive Symptoms? A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Analysis Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background Perceived social cohesion (PSC) is a protective factor for mental health. Yet, evidence on social mechanisms influencing mental health is scarce. Aims We examined the moderating role of PSC between parental stressors and depressive symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods We performed a multilevel moderated linear regression analysis using German Socio-Economic Panel ...

Trade Effects of Carbon Pricing Policies

Policies that affect the cost of using fossil fuels in production have a complex impact on the economy. In this paper, we focus on the role of these policies for the pattern of comparative advantage through their effect on production costs in manufacturing industries. Using data on carbon prices and fossil fuel subsidies, we show that less stringent carbon pricing policies increase comparative advantage ...

Integrating Renewable Energy Resources in Electricity Distribution Systems—a Firm-Level Efficiency Analysis for Sweden Controlling for Weather Conditions

Sweden is at the forefront of the transition of its energy sector to low-carbon technologies with profound consequences for both energy generation and its distribution. However, the impact of this transition on the performance of Electricity Distribution System Operators (DSOs) has not been thoroughly studied. The article addresses this gap by using a novel approach and detailed georeferenced firm-level, ...

Does a Fair Transition Reduce Efficiency? Essays on the Distributional Effects of Energy and Climate Policy

Für Länder auf der ganzen Welt stellt der Übergang zur Klimaneutralität eine Chance für Wirtschaftswachstum und Wohlstand dar. Gleichzeitig haben die Transformation der Wirtschaft und die mit ihr einhergehenden Staatsausgaben wichtige verteilungspolitische Implikationen. Die politischen Debatten um Energie- und Klimapolitik zeigen, wie wichtig es ist, diese verteilungspolitischen Implikationen zu verstehen, ...

SOEP-Core v39 – LEE2ESTAB: SOEP-LEE2 Employer Survey Data

SOEP-Core v39 – LEE2PERSON: SOEP-LEE2 PID-EID Linkage File