Recent studies focused on testing the Easterlin hypothesis (happiness and national income correlate in the cross-section but not over time) on a global level. We make a case for testing the Easterlin hypothesis at the country level where individual panel data allow exploiting important methodological advantages. Novelties of our test of the Easterlin hypothesis are a) long-term panel data and estimation ...
Theory suggests that subjective well-being is affected by income comparisons and adaptation to income. Empirical tests of the effects often rely on self-constructed measures from survey data. This paper shows that results can be highly sensitive to simple parameter changes. Using large-scale panel data from Germany and the UK, I report cases where plausible variations in the underlying income type ...
The full range of public benefits for married people and families is being evaluated on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the German Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) for the first time. To strengthen existing datasets such as the Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) in their statistical power, "Familien in Deutschland (FiD)" was initiated. ...
We would like to invite you to the „Berlin Seminar on Energy and Climate Policy" (BSEC) jointly with Öko Institut, PIK, TU-Berlin and Ecologic.More of the funds held by institutional investors would be invested in energy projects if there was a clear EU policy about how to deliver secure, affordable and low carbon energy. That was the conclusion of the UK House of Lords EU Sub...
After the backloading vote held by the EP in April of this year, it has become clear that additional effort and creativity is required to enhance discussions of European climate policy. To kick off the discussion, Climate Strategies invites to a workshop which has been organised back-to back with a series of kick-off meetings held in relation to the Climate Strategies project on Energy Intensive...
Numerous people in Germany, including politicians and researchers, believe that the gross domestic product (GDP) is an outdated indicator of a society's prosperity. Therefore, at the end of 2010, the German Bundestag, the federal parliament, established a study commission (Enquete-Kommission) tasked with developing an alternative to the GDP for measuring growth, prosperity, and quality of life. This ...
Open Science is an umbrella term that encompasses a multitude of assumptions about the future of knowledge creation and dissemination. Based on a literature review, this paper aims at structuring the overall discourse by proposing five Open Science schools of thought: The infrastructure school (which is concerned with the technological architecture), the public school (which is concerned with the accessibility ...
This year's application process for the Graduate Center is completed and the successful candidates have received an offer. Due to the large number of extremely well qualified applications decision making was far from easy. We regretfully had to reject many very promising candidates. We are grateful to everyone who expressed his/her interest and confidence in our program by submitting an application. ...
