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DIW Discussion Papers 2164 / 2026
Carbon pricing can deliver large emissions reductions, but public opposition remains a key barrier. We study how support for carbon tax-and-transfer schemes depends on policy design and information provision in a large-scale survey experiment with German respondents. Explaining the policy mechanism robustly increases support across price levels. Information on distributional consequences raises support ...
2026| Sandra Bohmann, Lars Felder, Peter Haan, Merve Kucuk,, Laura Schmitz, Jürgen Schupp
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This study investigates whether having daughters impacts political preferences and whether this effect varies across European countries. We estimate effect sizes for 39 countries in the European Social Survey (n = 156,236) and aggregate estimates using random-effects meta-analysis, following a preregistered analysis plan. We find significant evidence that having daughters increases the preference for ...
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
248 (2026), 107641, 14 S.
| Yifan Yang, Magnus Johannesson, Anna Dreber, Frank Fossen, Levent Neyse, Felix Holzmeister
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Objectives Cumulative advantage is a central concept in life course research. Prior research has primarily focused on one outcome domain, overlooking the possibility that cumulative advantage could extend into other domains–what we refer to as diffusion of cumulative advantage. We build on and extend cumulative inequality theory to conceptualize diffusion and apply it to wealth and health, two domains ...
In:
The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
(2026), im Ersch. [online first:2026-06-27]
| Anastasia Lam, Philipp M. Lersch
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Cluster-Seminar Öffentliche Finanzen und Lebenslagen
Work-limiting disabilities pose a significant risk to the earnings potential and welfare of older workers. While coverage of public disability insurance (DI) systems is almost universal, the risk of becoming dependent on DI varies across occupations. In this paper, I study the value of public DI across different occupations using data from administrative social security records in Germany. I...
11.02.2026| Annica Gehlen
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SOEP Brown Bag Seminar
Modern democracies are undergoing multiple, overlapping transformations, driven by globalization, digitalization, migration, inequality, and climate change. While some adapt with openness, others experience what Mau et al. (2023) term Veränderungserschöpfung – change fatigue: the sense that “too much is changing, too fast, and all at once.” This paper examines whether and how such fatigue...
24.06.2026| Katja Schmidt, HU Berlin
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Young people with disability face significant barriers to stable employment. Yet, little is known about how early labor market experiences shape their long-term mental health. This study examines associations between early career insecurity and subsequent mental health trajectories, focusing on disability status as a key axis of inequality. We use nationally representative longitudinal data from the ...
In:
SSM - Population Health
34 (2026), 101912, 14 S.
| Sophia Fauser, Irma Mooi-Recic, Marissa Shields, Zoe Aitken, Anne Kavanagh
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Refereed essays Web of Science
Life-course scholarship has documented the important role of educational aspirations in status attainment processes but has also revealed that parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations may negatively affect child development. However, it is unclear how parent-child mismatches in educational aspirations evolve over time. Here, we examine (1) the prevalence of mismatching aspirations across ...
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Advances in Life Course Research
67 (2026), 100725, 11 S.
| Jascha Dräger, Kaspar Burger
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Weitere referierte Aufsätze
Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12%of male workers inWest Germany are affected, rising to above 30% for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
246 (2026), 1, S. 5–34
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Johannes König, Isabella Retter, Christian Schluter, Carsten Schröder, Yogam Tchokni
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Refereed essays Web of Science
This paper examines the gaps in Germany’s data infrastructure for responding to crises, as revealed during COVID-19, and argues that linking the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) with administrative health records would strengthen the country’s ability to generate equity-sensitive evidence during future health-related crises. Drawing on evidence from the RKI-SOEP study, we illustrate the added value of combining ...
In:
Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
(2026), im Ersch.[online first: 2026-07-13]
| Alexander Lepe, Ingo Kolodziej, Sabine Zinn
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DIW Discussion Papers 2171 / 2026
We develop a three-step procedure for ex-ante policy evaluation. It combines (i) a vignette survey that randomizes out-of-sample policies (child allowances and external childcare subsidies) to infer fertility responses; (ii) two applied-theory lifecycle models estimated on external microdata; and (iii) the inserting of the randomized policies into the models’ estimated fertility decision rules to obtain ...
2026| Joshua Goldstein, Christos Koulovatianos, Jian Li, Carsten Schröder