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DIW Discussion Papers 2076 / 2024
We contribute to the research on gender representation in economics by documenting the share of women among economists in a variety of leadership positions in the academic, but also in the private and public sectors, both globally and by region. For the years 2019 to 2023, we find women economists’ representation overall to be low in all sectors and no clear-cut trends over time. In academia, we find ...
2024| Jana Schuetz, Virginia Sondergeld, Insa Weilage
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DIW Weekly Report 45 / 2024
In 2023, heating energy prices increased by substantial 31 percent compared to the previous year, following a 33 percent increase already seen in 2022. Calculations based on data from the energy service provider ista show average price increases were the highest in the German state of Rhineland- Palatinate, and the lowest in Hamburg. Owing to these price hikes and ongoing energy-saving efforts, the ...
2024| Sophie M. Behr, Till Köveker, Merve Küçük
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Publication
“Social Report 2024” published: What are living conditions like in Germany? Publications use Socio-Economic Panel data
The “Sozialbericht 2024,” produced in collaboration with the Socio-Economic Panel, is being presented today. It is published by the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB), and the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB).
The ...
06.11.2024| Verena Neumann
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Seminar
In this seminar, a paper is presented that develops a framework for the representation of material flows in competitive equilibrium. Material balances track material flows which adjust endogenously to economic transactions. Negative environmental effects of resource extraction and waste deposition are assumed and it is shown that taxing resource extraction restores efficiency. Taxing waste only...
06.12.2024| Reyer Gerlagh
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Seminar
We combine theoretical and numerical analysis to derive optimal combinations of output-based allocation of emissions allowances and consumption taxes, where ‘optimal’ means from a global or regional welfare perspective. A key analytical finding is that output-based allocation of emissions allowances and consumption taxes are complements rather than substitutes. A key numerical finding is that the...
13.12.2024| Knut Einar Rosendahl (NMBU)
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Disruptions of labor market trajectories have lasting effects on later economic success. Displacement due to forced labor conscription is a disruption that remains understudied despite its continued prevalence in contemporary contexts. I investigate the consequences of exposure to forced labor conscription for individuals' long-term labor market outcomes. I exploit the fact that cohorts of Dutch...
06.11.2024| Carola Stapper, University of Cologne
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Seminar
The DENeB seminar series gives invited senior researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their current work and is open to everyone interested in ongoing research in development economics.
The Development Economics Network Berlin (DENeB) is a network for early career researchers in development economics. The network’s main purpose is to be a platform for knowledge exchange related to...
18.11.2024| Suanna Oh, Paris School of Economics
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
An influential body of economic literature has consistently shown strong associations between cognitive abilities and economic preferences. However, much of this research has overlooked the potential endogeneity of cognitive abilities - an oversight given that these abilities stem from a series of investment decisions influenced by factors likely correlated with economic preferences. To address...
20.11.2024| Daniel Graeber
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Externe Working Papers
We study the impact of fossil fuel subsidy removal on presidential popularity using difference-indifference approaches and a stylized theoretical model. Analyzing macro level data for two subsidy removal events in Mexico and Bolivia in the early 2010s, we find evidence of a negative impact on presidential approval. Our theoretical probabilistic voting model predicts that the decline in popularity is ...
Washington D.C.:
IMF,
2024,
49 S.
(IMF Working Paper ; 24/230)
| Mariza Montes de Oca Léon, Achim Hagen, Franziska Holz
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Refereed essays Web of Science
We evaluate German purchase subsidies for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) using data on new vehicle registrations in Germany dur¬ing 2015-2022. We account for confounding time trends and interacting EU-level CO2 standards using neighboring countries as a control group. We find that 40% of BEV and 25% of PHEV registrations were subsidy-induced. The program ...
In:
Environmental & Resource Economics
88 (2025),S. 185–223
| Peter Haan, Adrián Santonja, Aleksandar Zaklan