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Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy’s objective was to encourage them to develop a long-term habit of exercising. In 2018, we carried out a large register-based survey among several cohorts in Saxony and two neighboring states. Our difference-in-differences estimations show that, even after ...
In:
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
14 (2022), 3, 128-165
| Jan Marcus, Thomas Siedler, Nicolas R. Ziebarth
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The willingness to donate organs post-mortem varies considerably both across and within countries. Linking these differences to personal characteristics is an important focus of research investigating the supply of donor organs. Anecdotal evidence and previous findings indirectly suggest that the desire to reciprocate others’ (un)willingness to donate organs plays an important role in the decision ...
In:
Journal of Economic Psychology
81 (2020), 102331
| Hua-Jing Han, Matthias Wibral
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We study the effectiveness, spillovers, and well-being effects of low emission zones in Germany, an emission-intensity-based driving restriction rapidly growing in popularity. Using regression discontinuity and group-time difference-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the policy’s impact on traffic-related air pollution significantly underestimate its effectiveness. We provide ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(DIW Discussion Paper 1947)
| Luis Sarmiento, Nicole Wägner, Aleksandar Zaklan
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Sowohl Löhne als auch bedarfsgewichtete Haushaltseinkommen sind im Zeitraum 2013 bis 2018 real um gut zehn Prozent gestiegen. Hiervon profitierten alle Einkommensgruppen. Die Ungleichheit der Löhne ist seit mehreren Jahren rückläufig und liegt wieder auf dem Niveau wie zu Beginn der 2000er Jahre. Parallel dazu ist der Niedriglohnsektor um zwei Prozentpunkte geschrumpft. Anders verhält es sich bei den ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
17/18/2021 (2021), 125-133
| Markus M. Grabka
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Numerous health insurers offer bonus programmes that score customers’ health behaviour, and car insurers offer telematics tariffs that score driving behaviour. In many countries, however, only a minority of customers participate in these programmes. In a population-representative survey of private households in Germany (N = 2,215), we study the acceptance of the criteria (features) on which the scoring ...
In:
PloS one
16 (2021), 4, e0250224
| Felix G. Rebitschek, Gerd Gigerenzer, Ariane Keitel, Sarah Sommer, Christian Groß, Gert G. Wagner
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The study of loneliness and social isolation has provided a lot of evidence for differences in the prevalence of the two, depending on the context of individuals. Given different social, legal, and economic differences for migrants and refugees, it has been documented that these groups show elevated levels of both social isolation and loneliness compared to the respective host population. Differences ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1124)
| Lea-Maria Löbel, Hannes Kröger, Ana Nanette Tibubos
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Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht die Wirkung unterschiedlicher Charakteristika von Bildungssystemen auf kognitive Fähigkeiten von Kindern und Jugendlichen. Sie konzentriert sich auf Maßnahmen, die vor dem 10. Lebensjahr eines Kindes ansetzen. Während dieser Phase lässt sich Kognition von Kindern besonders gut beeinflussen. Die drei Artikel dieser Dissertation leisten einen jeweils eigenständigen ...
2019,
| Stephan Sievert
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Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics model links impatience to voters’ appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient individuals may reject further globalization if they are subject to borrowing constraints. Using German data, ...
München:
CESifo,
2020,
(CESifo Working Paper No. 8466)
| Thomas Aronsson, Clemens Hetschko, Ronnie Schöb
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Nach einem deutlichen Rückgang in den 1980er-Jahren sind die Erwerbsquoten älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland in den 1990er-Jahren und bis zuletzt wieder merklich angestiegen. Die Dissertation untersucht in zwei Kapiteln wie viel dieser Umkehr auf Rentenreformen und sich verändernde Verrentungsanreize von 1980-2015 zurückzuführen ist. In den Kapiteln 4 und 5 untersucht der Autor Reformen des flexiblen ...
2020,
| Nicolas Goll
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Education is a central concept in social science research, and thus a key socio-demographic characteristic that is measured in almost every survey. Due to the importance and wide usage of education in empirical studies, this dissertation takes a closer look at this concept and the related education variables. In this thesis the quality of education variables from the perspective of survey organisers ...
2020,
| Verena Ortmanns