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The present study calculates variable, cross-sectional as well as longitudinal equivalence scales on the basis of the German 1984-2010 Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) database for West Germany. It follows the “individual variant” for calculating subjective equivalence scales using “life satisfaction” as a proxy variable for “utility”. The cross-sectional scale estimates are characterised by relatively ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2013,
(SOEPpapers 575)
| Jürgen Faik
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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social capital. We use the administrative dataset on dependent employment (WHIP), to estimate a fixed effect model ...
Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2009,
(IZA DP No. 4639)
| Riccardo Faini, Steinar Strom, Alessandra Venturini, Claudia Villosio
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A common finding in the entrepreneurship literature is that business creation increases in recessions. This counter-cyclical pattern is examined by separating business creation into two components: "opportunity" and "necessity" entrepreneurship. Although there is general agreement in the previous literature on the conceptual distinction between these two factors driving entrepreneurship, ...
Brlin:
DIW Berlin,
2018,
(SOEPpapers 959)
| Robert W. Fairlie, Frank M. Fossen
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This paper analyses the effect of information disseminated by the Internet on voting behavior. We address endogeneity in Internet availability by exploiting regional and technological peculiarities of the preexisting voice telephony network that hinder the roll-out of fixed-line broadband infrastructure for high-speed Internet. We find small negative effects of Internet availability on voter turnout, ...
In:
American Economic Review
104 (2014), 7, 2238-2265
| Oliver Falck, Robert Gold, Stephan Heblich
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This study provides insights on the role of early childhood family environment within the process of preference formation. We start by presenting evidence showing that breastfeeding duration is a valid measure of the quality of early childhood environment. In the main analysis, we then investigate how early childhood environment affects the formation of fundamental economic preferences such as time, ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 882)
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. We use an integrated approach that exploits complementarities between controlled laboratory and representative panel data. In a simple principal–agent experiment, agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. Throughout the experiment ...
In:
Management Science
64 (2018), 4, 1477-1973
| Armin Falk, Fabian Kosse, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist
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This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent’s reward expectation is not met. Throughout the experiment we record agents’ heart rate variability. ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2011,
(SOEPpapers 380)
| Armin Falk, Ingo Menrath, Pablo Emilio Verde, Johannes Siegrist
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The German health care reform of 2004 imposes a charge of e10 for the first visit to a doctor in each quarter of the year. Exploiting random variation in the interview day of the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study finds a substantial effect of the new fee on the probability of visiting a physician. In addition, the identification strategy makes it possible to disentangle this effect from the influence ...
Kiel:
2010,
| Helmut Farbmacher
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When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, a quarter or a year), the empirical analysis of its effects has to take the within-period time structure of incentives into account. The analysis is further complicated when demand data are obtained from a survey in which the reporting period does not coincide with the payment period. We illustrate ...
York:
University of York, Health, Econometrics and Data Group,
2012,
(HEDG Working Paper 12/15)
| Helmut Farbmacher, Joachim Winter
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When health insurance reforms involve non-linear price schedules tied to payment periods (for example, fees levied by quarter or year), the empirical analysis of its effects has to take the within-period time structure of incentives into account. The analysis is further complicated when demand data are obtained from a survey in which the reporting period does not coincide with the payment period. We ...
In:
Health Economics
22 (2013), 9, 1111–1123
| Helmut Farbmacher, Joachim Winter