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Arrivals of crises often trigger public appeals from policy leaders, attempting to encourage crisis-mitigating behaviors. We ask whether the tone of an appeal changes its effectiveness, and to what extent policymakers know what tone to use. Using a controlled experiment in a large, general-population sample, we first study the impact of appeals and of their emotional tone on contributions to a well-defined ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
246 (2026), 107578, 16 S.
| Peter Haan, Lea Heursen, Jule Specht, Bruno Veltri, Georg Weizsäcker
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This paper estimates child penalties in labour-market-relevant cognitive skills, such as numeracy but also literacy and problem-solving competencies. We use international PIAAC data and adapt a pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section covering 29 countries. Numeracy scores, which are associated with the largest returns to skills and pronounced gender differences, decline by 0.11 standard deviations ...
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European Economic Review
184 (2026), 105245, 18 S.
| Jonas Jessen, Lavinia Kinne, Michele Battisti
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In recent decades, the share of very young children in daycare has significantly increased in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the critical role of child health in development and later life success, the impact of early daycare attendance on health has received little attention in the economic literature. This study examines the effects of a substantial daycare expansion in Germany on ...
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European Economic Review
184 (2026), 105261, 55 S.
| Mara Barschkett
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Cross-sectional age-skill profiles suggest that cognitive skills start declining by age 30 if not earlier. If accurate, such age-driven skill losses pose a major threat to the human capital of societies with rapidly aging populations. We estimate actual age-skill profiles from individual changes in literacy and numeracy skills at different ages. We use the unique German longitudinal component of the ...
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Science Advances
11 (2025), 10, eads1560, 13 S.
| Eric A. Hanushek, Lavinia Kinne, Frauke Witthöft, Ludger Wößmann
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This paper examines whether biased income expectations due to overconfidence lead to higher levels of debt taking. We show suggestive evidence for a link between overconfidence and borrowing behavior in a representative survey of German households (German Socio-Economic Panel–Innovation Sample [GSOEP-IS]). This motivates a laboratory experiment to study causality behind these effects. In two experiments, ...
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Journal of Money, Credit and Banking
57 (2025) 5, S. 1071-1102
| Antonia Grohmann, Lukas Menkhoff, Christoph Merkle, Renke Schmacker
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out-
comes. We focus on health shocks that increase care dependency abruptly. Our
estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated
families. Empirical results based on administrative data show a significant negative
impact on the labor market activities of children. This effect is more pronounced
for ...
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Journal of Labor Economics
43 (2025) 3, S. 803-841
| Wolfgang Frimmel, Martin Halla, Jörg Paetzold, Julia Schmieder
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Informal childcare care by grandparents, other relatives or friends is an important source of support in many Western countries, including Germany. Yet the role of this type of care is often overlooked in accounts of social policies supporting families with children, which tend to focus on formal childcare. This article examines whether the large formal childcare expansion occurring in Germany in the ...
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Social Policy and Administration
59 (2025), 3, S. 383-398
| Ludovica Gambaro, Clara Schäper, C. Katharina Spiess
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Understanding widowhood duration is essential for individuals and effective widow support policies, yet widowhood duration remains an understudied topic. In this article, we provide a quantitative estimation of the impact of three primary determinants of expected widowhood duration at age 60 in a unified framework: (1) the degree of overlap between male and female mortality distributions, (2) the spousal ...
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Demography
62 (2025), 2, S. 467–488
| Julie Tréguier, Carole Bonnet, Didier Blanchet
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Individuals vary considerably in how much they earn during their lifetimes. This study examines the role of the tax‐and‐transfer system in mitigating such inequalities, which could otherwise lead to disparities in living standards. Utilizing a life‐cycle model, we determine that the tax‐and‐transfer system offsets 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in productive abilities ...
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Quantitative Economics
16 (2025), 2, S. 565–613
| Peter Haan, Daniel Kemptner, Victoria Prowse, Maximilian Schaller
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This study explores how gender and age interact in shaping beliefs about fair pay through a factorial survey experiment conducted with German employees. Respondents evaluated hypothetical worker descriptions varying in age, gender, and earnings. While no gender gap in fair earnings was found for the youngest hypothetical workers, a significant gap favoring men emerged with increasing age. This suggests ...
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The British Journal of Sociology
76 (2025),1, S. 180-187
| Jule Adriaans, Carsten Sauer, Katharina Wrohlich