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The price of institutional long-term care is a key determinant of the demand for both formal and informal long-term care. In this paper, we examine how the regional unemployment rate as a proxy for macroeconomic conditions influences these prices. Our analysis draws on administrative data that provide detailed information on all nursing homes and ambulatory care services, as well as all recipients ...
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing
32 (2025), 100600, 15 S.
| Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan, Mia Teschner
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The Covid-19 pandemic caused a global economic crisis, leading governments to provide substantial State aid to support firms. This paper examines the effectiveness of Covid-related financial support in Spain and Italy, focusing on its impact on firm recovery. Using a difference-in-differences (DiD) approach combined with propensity score weighting, it compares outcomes of similar firms receiving aid ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
240 (2025), 107339, 30 S.
| Giulia Canzian, Elena Crivellaro, Tomaso Duso, Antonella Rita Ferrara, Alessandro Sasso, Stefano Verzillo
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Germany’s energy transition relies on variable renewables and electricity use across sectors, and it needs to accelerate. We argue that consistent policy commitments to proven technologies, such as wind and solar power, heat pumps and electric cars are needed.
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Communications Earth & Environment
6 (2025), 859, 5 S.
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Adeline Guéret, Alexander Roth, Felix Schmidt
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Stock market participation among working household heads jumped upwards in 2020 - in Germany by about 25 %. A major cause is the required use of work from home (WfH). We show this by adding WfH to a large set of explanatory variables. Moreover, we implement an instrumental variables estimation based on industry-specific levels of WfH-capacity. The transmission channels seem to work via increased available ...
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International Review of Financial Analysis
107 (2025), 104604, 12 S.
| Lorenz Meister, Lukas Menkhoff, Carsten Schröder
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This study investigates researcher variability in computational reproduction, an activity for which it is least expected. Eighty-five independent teams attempted numerical replication of results from an original study of policy preferences and immigration. Reproduction teams were randomly grouped into a ‘transparent group’ receiving original study and code or ‘opaque group’ receiving only a method ...
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Royal Society Open Science
12 (2025), 241038., 23 S.
| Nate Breznau, Eike Mark Rinke, Alexander Wuttke, Philipp M. Lersch, Lea-Maria Löbel, Cristóbal Moya (et al.)
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We propose a novel method to detect and disentangle moderate and severe health shocks in a general population survey based on a data-driven classification of sickness absences and hospitalizations. Both types of shocks are widespread with an annual incidence of about 1.7%, which rises steeply with age. We estimate the effects of both shocks on labor market outcomes and find that severe shocks have ...
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Labour Economics
96 (2025), 102747, 13 S.
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes Koenig
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We employ a control function methodology, complemented by various identification strategies, to causally estimate the heterogeneous effects of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) across 46 two-digit manufacturing and service industries in Germany from 2010 to 2015. Throughout this period, the availability of broadband, defined as access to transmission rates of at least ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
237 (2025), 107133, 18 S.
| Tomaso Duso, Mattia Nardotto, Alexander Schiersch
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BackgroundHealth system resilience, the ability of a health system to maintain its functions under stress, has received increasing attention in recent years. Shortcomings in health system resilience are often most visible in the most vulnerable settings, including the care for asylum seekers and refugees. We therefore examined how the German health system responded to challenges and uncertainties during ...
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Social Science & Medicine
381 (2025), 118174, 10 S.
| Rosa Jahn, Clara Perplies, Eilin Rast, Louise Biddle, Andreas W. Gold, Kayvan Bozorgmehr
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Background: Populations experiencing precarity face heightened mental health inequities, especially during crises. In this regard, it is established that socio-economic status (SES) and social isolation are critical factors influencing mental health outcomes, which interact syndemically. Understanding their interrelated mechanisms is crucial for developing effective public health strategies to support ...
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SSM - Population Health
31 (2025), 101822, 16 S.
| Victoria Touzel, Doreen Reifegerste, Kayvan Bozorgmehr, Louise Biddle
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During the 2022 energy crisis, electricity prices across Europe have risen to unprecedented heights. In a case study for Germany, this work investigates to which extent price spikes can be attributed to changes in upstream commodity prices, and to which degree strategic behavior by generators may have contributed to the situation. Electricity markets are more prone to the effects of such behavior if ...
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Energy Reports
13 (2025), S. 5474–5485
| Maria Krzywnicka, Lukas Barner