Vorträge des DIW Berlin

Spite and Cognitive Skills in Preschoolers

Although spiteful preferences play a crucial role in the development of human large-scale cooperation, there is little evidence on spiteful behavior and its determinants in children. We investigate the relationship between children¿s cognitive skills and spiteful behavior in a sample of 214 preschoolers aged 5-6 and their mothers. Other-regarding behavior of both mothers and children is elicited...

A New Look at Intergenerational Mobility in Germany Compared to the US

Motivated by the contradictory existing evidence on estimated German intergenerational earnings elasticities (IGE), I present a cross-country comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in Germany and the US reassessing the question whether intergenerational mobility is higher in Germany compared to the US. In particular I analyze whether the two countries differ in the structure of...

Diskussionsteilnahme

Einführung in das SOEP I

Einführung in das SOEP II

Arbeiten mit dem SOEP: Datenstruktur, SOEPinfo

Arbeiten mit dem SOEP: Aufbereitung von Querschnittsdaten und Längsschnittdatensätzen

Arbeiten mit dem SOEP: Personen, Haushalte, Haushaltsmitglieder

Paneldatenanalyse

International Comparisons of Response Rates: What We Can Learn from HRS, ELSA and SHARE

Is Car Drivers' Response to Congestion Charging Schemes Based on the Correct Perception of Price Signals?

This paper deals with the question how the capability of car drivers to estimate travel distance, travel time, fuel costs and other motoring costs as well as the cost of a new hypothetical congestion charge influences their decision to change their travel behaviour. The analysis makes use of an integrated choice and latent variable model (ICLV) which merges classic choice models with the...

Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit

Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost inefficiency of local public bus companies in Germany, where a complex system allocates ample financial support....

The Business Case of Fast Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

Modelling for Determinants of Human Trafficking

Liquidity Crises, Banking, and the Great Recession

The Impact of Introducing an Interest Barrier: Evidence from the German Corporation Tax Reform 2008

In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule newly introduced in Germany in 2008 on firms' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses within the regulation using a difference-in-difference approach. Our results suggest that firms strongly react to the new regulation in order to avoid the...

Differential Taxation and Firms' Financial Leverage: Evidence from the Introduction of a Flat Tax on Interest Income

How Do Taxes Affect Investment When Firms Face Financial Constraints?

This study uses a switching regression framework with known sample separation to analyze the effects of corporate income taxation on investment in case of binding and nonbinding financial constraints. By employing two different sample splitting criteria, payout behavior and the ratio of liabilities to total assets, I show that the elasticity of capital to its user costs in an auto-distributed-lag...

The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive and Non-cognitive Skills during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

Estimating Heterogeneous Returns to Education in Germany via Conditional Second Moments

In this paper I investigate the causal returns to education for different educational groups in Germany by employing a new method by Klein and Vella (2010) that bases identification on the presence of conditional heteroskedasticity. Compared to IV methods, key advantages of this approach are unbiased estimates in the absence of instruments and parameter interpretation that is not bounded to local...