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The shift away from coal is at the heart of the global low-carbon transition. Can governments of coal-producing countries help facilitate this transition and benefit from it? This paper analyses the case for coal taxes as supply-side climate policy implemented by large coal exporting countries. Coal taxes can reduce global carbon dioxide emissions and benefit coal-rich countries through improved terms-of-trade ...
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Climatic Change
150 (2018), 1-2, S. 43-56
| Philipp M. Richter, Roman Mendelevitch, Frank Jotzo
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This paper experimentally investigates how concerns for social approval relate to intrinsic motivations to purchase ethically. Participants state their willingness-to-pay for both a fair trade and a conventional chocolate bar in private or publicly. A standard model of social image predicts that all participants increase their fair trade premium when facing an audience. We find that the premium is ...
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European Economic Review
110 (2018), S. 61-77
| Jana Friedrichsen, Dirk Engelmann
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Here we conducted a large-scale genetic association analysis of educational attainment in a sample of approximately 1.1 million individuals and identify 1,271 independent genome-wide-significant SNPs. For the SNPs taken together, we found evidence of heterogeneous effects across environments. The SNPs implicate genes involved in brain-development processes and neuron-to-neuron communication. In a separate ...
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Nature Genetics
50 (2018), S. 1112-1121
| James J. Lee, Robbee Wedow, Martin Kroh ...
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This study evaluates the impact of fuel taxes on new car purchases, using exhaustive individual-level data of monthly new car registrations in France. We use information on the car holder to account for heterogeneous preferences across purchasers, and we identify demand parameters through the large oil price fluctuations of this period. We find that the short-term sensitivity of demand with respect ...
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Energy Economics
74 (2018), S. 76-96
| Pauline Givord, Céline Grislain-Letrémy, Helene Naegele
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Political representatives frequently make decisions with far-reaching implications for citizens and societies. Most of these decisions are choices in situations in which the probabilities of gains and losses are hard to estimate. Although decision-making is crucial to politics, existing research has hardly ever addressed the political representation of traits that notably influence decision-making. ...
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Palgrave Communications
4 (2018), 60, 7 S.
| Moritz Heß, Christian von Scheve, Jürgen Schupp, Aiko Wagner, Gert G. Wagner
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Maternal well-being is assumed to be associated with well-being of individual family members, optimal parenting practices, and positive developmental outcomes for children. The objective of this study was to examine the interplay between maternal well-being, parent-child activities, and the well-being of 5- to 7-year-old children. In a sample of N = 291 mother-child dyads, maternal life satisfaction, ...
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Frontiers in Psychology
9 (2018), Art. 739, 12 S.
| Nina Richter, Rebecca Bondü, C. Katharina Spiess, Gert G. Wagner, Gisela Trommsdorff
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Our research challenges the traditional view that unemployment is an unequivocal negative event in working life. We argue that depending on workers’ educational attainment and on national-specific institutional settings unemployment might have different implications on young workers who begin their employment careers in low occupational positions. The strongly skill-based and rigid labour market in ...
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Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
55 (2018), S. 99-108
| Alberto Veira-Ramos, Paul Schmelzer
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Many OECD countries are raising the normal retirement age (NRA), thereby, making early retirement more costly. Whereas such reforms incentivize individuals to work longer, labor market frictions might partly undermine intended behavioral responses. Employing administrative data of West German men, I estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of work, unemployment and retirement allowing for labor market ...
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Labour Economics
53 (2018), S. 146-161
| Stefan Etgeton
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Previous research came to contradictory conclusion about the prosocial nature of intuitive decisions, as compared to deliberate decisions. This paper proposes the prosociality of the status quo allocation as a determinant of the prosociality of intuitive decisions. I present results from two experiments (N = 1,649) that manipulate time pressure and elicit response times in a binary dictator game. One ...
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Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics
74 (2018), S. 127-138
| Manja Gärtner
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We analyze the welfare effects of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Earlier TTIP studies analyze welfare effects in a framework where output and welfare coincide. We believe that the utility function of households, which depends on consumption and employment, is the best criterion for assessing TTIP. We measure the ...
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Economic Modelling
70 (2018), S. 230-238
| Philipp Engler, Juha Tervala