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In this paper we study the effect of television exposure on fertility. We exploit a natural experiment that took place in Germany after WWII. For topographical reasons, Western TV programs, which promoted one/no child families, could not be received in certain parts of East Germany. Using an IV approach, we find robust evidence that watching West German TV results in lower fertility. This conclusion ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2015,
(SOEPpapers 752)
| Peter Bönisch, Walter Hyll
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Individuals’ preferences in transition regions are still shaped by the former communist system. We test this ‘Communism legacy’ hypothesis by examining the impact of acculturation in a communist regime on social network participation and, as a consequence, on preferences for spatial mobility. We focus on the paradigmatic case of East Germany where mobility intentions seem to be substantially weaker ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2010,
(SOEPpapers 334)
| Peter Bönisch, Lutz Schneider
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Berlin:
German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin),
2011,
(DIW Discussion Paper No. 1160)
| Timm Bönke, Giacomo Corneo, Holger Lüthen
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We examine the composition of augmented household wealth, the sum of net worth and pension wealth, in the United States and Germany. Pension wealth makes up a considerable portion of household wealth of about 48% in the United States and 61% in Germany. When pension wealth is included in household wealth, the Gini coefficient falls from 0.889 to 0.700 in the United States and from 0.755 to 0.508 in ...
In:
Scandinavian Journal of Economics
122 (2020), 3, 1140-1180
| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff
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The research on wealth inequality has generally focused on real and financial assets, while giving little attention to pension wealth: the present value of future pension entitlements from public and company pension schemes. This is surprising given the important role pension plans play in guaranteeing material security and well-being for a majority of the population, and suggests that they should ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
65 (2019), 4, 834-871
| Timm Bönke, Markus M. Grabka, Carsten Schröder, Edward N. Wolff, Lennard Zyska
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In many countries organized as federations, fiscal equalization schemes have been implemented to mitigate vertical or horizontal imbalances. Such schemes usually imply that the member states of the federation can only partly internalize (marginal) tax revenue before redistribution. Aside from the internalized marginal revenue, referred to as the marginal tax-back rate, the remainder is redistributed. ...
In:
German Economic Review
18 (2017), 3, 377-409
| Timm Bönke, Beate Jochimsen, Carsten Schröder
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In aging societies, information on how to reform pension systems is essential to policy makers. This study scrutinizes effects of early retirement disincentives on retirement behavior, individual welfare, pensions and public budget. We employ administrative pension data and a detailed model of the German tax and social security system to estimate a structural dynamic retirement model. We find that ...
In:
Labour Economics
51 (2018), April 2018, 25-37
| Timm Bönke, Daniel Kemptner, Holger Lüthen
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We investigate the hypothesis of failed integration and low social mobility of immigrants. An intergenerational assimilation model is tested empirically on household survey data and validated against registry data provided by the Italian Embassy in Germany. Although we confirm substantial disparities between educational achievements of immigrants and natives, we find that the children of Italian immigrants ...
In:
German Economic Review
19 (2018), 1, 1-31
| Timm Bönke, Guido Neidhöfer
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Luxembourg:
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS),
2007,
(Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper Series No. 463)
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder
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Palma de Mallorca:
Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ),
2008,
(ECINEQ WP 2008-102)
| Timm Bönke, Carsten Schröder