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  • Seminar Series on Research in Development Economics

    Social media and protests in China

    21.02.2019| David Strömberg
  • Berlin Applied Micro Seminar (BAMS)

    How Effective Is Black-box Digital Consumer Profiling and Audience Delivery?: Evidence from Field Studies

    BAMS is a joint seminar by the DIW Berlin, the Hertie School of Governance, the HU Berlin and the WZB.

    04.02.2019| Catherine E. Tucker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Research Project

    Antibiotic Resistance: Socio-Economic Determinants and the Role of Information and Salience in Treatment Choice (ABRSEIST)

    Antibiotics have contributed to a tremendous increase in human well-being, saving many millions of lives. However, antibiotics become obsolete the more they are used as selection pressure promotes the development of resistant bacteria. The World Health Organization has proclaimed antibiotic resistance as a major global threat to public health. Today, 700,000 deaths per year are due to...

    Current Project| Firms and Markets
  • Diskussionspapiere 1835 / 2019

    The Effect of a Leniency Rule on Cartel Formation and Stability: Experiments with Open Communication

    Cartels can severely harm social welfare. Competition authorities introduced leniency rules to destabilize existing cartels and hinder the formation of new ones. Empirically, it is difficult to judge the success of these measures because functioning cartels are unobservable. Existing experimental studies confirm that a leniency rule indeed reduces cartelization. We extend these studies by having a ...

    2019| Maximilian Andres, Lisa Bruttel, Jana Friedrichsen
  • Diskussionspapiere 1823 / 2019

    The Effect of Personalized Feedback on Small Enterprises’ Finances in Uganda

    This RCT examines the effect of a new style finance training during which participants are given personalized feedback on their financial business outcomes in addition to a “rules-of-thumb” training approach. We compare this to the effects of a “rules-of-thumb” training by itself and to a control group. Targeting about 500 small and micro entrepreneurs in Kampala, Uganda, we find that the personalized ...

    2019| Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Helke Seitz
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Drivers of Renewable Technology Adoption in the Household Sector

    Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we undertake a simultaneous assessment of the importance of factors that are individually found to be significant for the adoption of renewable energy systems by households but are not yet tested jointly. These are sociodemographic and housing characteristics, environmental concern, personality traits, and economic factors; i.e. the expected costs of ...

    In: Energy Economics 81 (2019), S. 216-226 | Anke Jacksohn, Peter Grösche, Katrin Rehdanz, Carsten Schröder
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    The Effect of Peer Observation on Consumption Choices: Evidence from a Lab-In-Field Experiment

    We investigate the impact of peer observation on consumption decisions using a lab-in-field experiment. Respondents make consumption decisions either alone or under peer observation. We find evidence for peer effects. We are able to study these further by looking into the mechanism and performing detailed heterogeneity analysis. Concerning the mechanisms, we find evidence for an information channel. ...

    In: Applied Economics 51 (2019), 55, S. 5937-5951 | Antonia Grohmann, Sahra Sakha
  • Externe referierte Aufsätze

    Health-Related Life Cycle Risks and Public Insurance

    Based on a dynamic life cycle model, this study analyzes health-related risks of consumption and old-age poverty. The model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks, productivity and preferences, and the financial incentives of the German public insurance schemes. The estimation uses data on male employees and an extended expectation-maximization ...

    In: Journal of Health Economics 65 (2019), S. 227-245 | Daniel Kemptner
  • Diskussionspapiere 1816 / 2019

    Income Redistribution, Consumer Credit, and Keeping up with the Riches

    In this study, we set up a DSGE model with upward looking consumption comparison and show that consumption externalities are an important driver of consumer credit dynamics. Our model economy is populated by two different household types. Investors, who hold the economy’s capital stock, own the firms and supply credit, and workers, who supply labor and demand credit to finance consumption. Furthermore, ...

    2019| Mathias Klein, Christopher Krause
  • DIW Roundup 130 / 2019

    Do Default Assignments Increase Savings of the Poor? Empirical Evidence

    Although households in developing and emerging countries are relatively poor, there is potential to save. For example, one study estimates that up to 8.1% of a poor household’s budget in such countries is spent on so-called temptation goods, like alcohol, tobacco, and festivals (Banerjee and Duflo, 2007). At the same time, many households are aware of the fact that they do not save enough. They name ...

    2019| Eva Haaser, Melanie Koch
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