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DIW Discussion Papers 2102 / 2024
This paper analyzes the distribution and composition of pre-tax national income in Germany since 1992, combining personal income tax returns, household survey data, and national accounts. Inequality rose from the 1990s to the late 2000s due to falling labor incomes among the bottom 50% and rising incomes in the top 10%. This trend reversed after 2007 as labor incomes across the bottom 90% increased. ...
2024| Stefan Bach, Charlotte Bartels, Theresa Neef
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Externe Working Papers
Cognitive abilities are associated with key preferences and socio-economic outcomes. One of the most frequently studied cognitive abilities is cognitive reflection, the ability to avoid intuitive but potentially wrong decisions by switching to a more analytical mindset. Using rich panel data in this pre-registered study, we show that stronger cognitive reflection is significantly associated with more ...
SSRN,
2024,
58 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Frank M. Fossen, Levent Neyse, Carsten Schröder
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Externe Working Papers
Variable renewable energy droughts, also referred to as "Dunkelflaute", emerge as a challenge for realizing climate-neutral energy systems based on variable wind and solar power. Using data on 38 historic weather years and an advanced identification method, we characterize European drought events for on- and offshore wind power, solar photovoltaics, and policy-relevant renewable technology portfolios. ...
Ithaca:
arXiv.org,
2024,
14 S.
(arXiv ; 2410.00244)
| Martin Kittel, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Externe Working Papers
Coping with prolonged periods of low availability of wind and solar power, also referred to as "Dunkelflaute", emerges as a key challenge for realizing a decarbonized European energy system fully based on renewable energy sources. Here, we investigate the role of long-duration electricity storage and geographical balancing in dealing with such variable renewable energy droughts. To this end, we combine ...
Ithaca:
arXiv.org,
2024,
9 S.
(arXiv ; 2411.17683)
| Martin Kittel, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Non-refereed Articles
The study of poverty is at the heart of economics, and the goal of overcoming it drives the efforts of policy-makers worldwide. Meeting such goals requires confidence (a) in the tools we have to measure poverty, and (b) in our understanding of the determinants of poverty. Here, we focus on the role of household composition in the measurement and analysis of poverty. After presenting some core concepts, ...
In:
Jacques Silber (Ed.) ,
Research Handbook on Measuring Poverty and Deprivation
Cheltenham : Elgar
S. 39-49
Elgar Handbooks in Development
| Christos Koulovatianos, Carsten Schröder
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Externe Working Papers
The Routine-Biased Technological Change hypothesis (RBTC) by Autor et al. (2023) suggests that automation processes have substituted workers operating middle-skilled routine tasks. As a result, the relative demand for complementary workers operating non-routine tasks has increased. These changes in the labor force composition imply job polarization, characterized by a growing proportion of both high- ...
SSRN,
2024,
78 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Maximilian Longmuir, Carsten Schroeder, Matteo Targa
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Externe Working Papers
How does economic growth affect the distribution of wealth? Combining wealth records from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) and local GDP growth across 401 German counties, this paper documents a sizable Hometown-Growth-Wealth Nexus. Using a standard OLG model to guide our estimation strategy, we nd that, because of hometown growth, a person born in flourishing Munich will have accumulated two to three ...
SSRN,
2024,
78 S.
(SSRN Papers)
| Charlotte Bartels, Johannes König, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Understanding how consumers respond to turbulent market conditions is crucial for planning security of natural gas supply. This paper estimates the price elasticity of demand of small consumers in Germany in the period with both high price fluctuations and a fear of natural gas shortage in the aftermath of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Using granular data between 2018 and 2023, we estimate an Auto ...
In:
Energy Efficiency
17 (2024), 98, 22 S.
| David Jamissen, Johanne Vatne, Franziska Holz, Anne Neumann
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Refereed essays Web of Science
By the end of the Second World War, an estimated 20% of the West German housing stock had been destroyed. Building on a theoretical life-cycle model, this paper examines the persistent consequences of the war for individual wealth across generations. As our empirical basis, we link a unique historical dataset on the levels of wartime destruction in 1739 West German cities with micro data on individual ...
In:
Journal of Economic Growth
30 (2025), S. 161–235
| Christoph Halbmeier, Carsten Schröder
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Refereed essays Web of Science
There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...
In:
Economics Letters
246 (2025),111997, 5 S.
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder