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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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The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects on political involvement unfold over time. Using nine panel datasets from six countries, it analyzes whether income changes have short-term effects on political involvement, whether effects vary across the life-cycle, and whether parental income has an independent influence. Irrespective ...
In:
European Journal of Political Research
61 (2022), 3, 829-841
| Sebastian Jungkunz, Paul Marx
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Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees’ mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees. We apply a regression discontinuity design in time to estimate the effect of ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1130)
| Daniel Graeber, Felicitas Schikora
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Substantial educational inequalities have been documented in Germany for decades. In this article, we examine whether educational inequalities among children have increased or remained the same since the school closures of spring 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our perspective is longitudinal: We compare the amount of time children in secondary schools spent on school-related activities at home ...
In:
Frontiers in Psychology
12 (2021), 705107
| Sabine Zinn, Michael Bayer
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Based on panel data from 1997 to 2018, we investigate the socioeconomic preconditions and economic consequences of ‘shared parenting (SP)’ forms in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we build SP groups from information on child residence and fathers’ childcare hours during a regular weekday. We explore the short-term gender and SP group associations with economic well-being as well as, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2021,
(SOEPpapers 1131)
| Christina Boll, Simone Schüller