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Greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced by 65 percent compared to 1990 by 2030 to achieve national climate targets. Nearly one third of greenhouse gas emissions in Germany are caused by private household consumption. Using Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data, this Weekly Report calculates the amount of CO2 equivalents emitted by households due to residential energy use, nutrition, and transport in Germany. ...
In:
DIW Weekly Report
27/2024 (2024), 179-186
| Sandra Bohmann, Merve Küçük
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Amidst the challenges of declining response rates and escalating costs in survey research, the adoption of innovative new data collection designs such as planned missingness and split questionnaire designs is becoming increasingly prevalent. This dissertation addresses the imputation of social survey data from split questionnaire designs and the methodological decisions associated with implementing ...
2023,
| Julian B. Axenfeld
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Market-driven closures of coal mines have typically been associated with negative economic consequences for the affected regions. In Germany, structural policy directed towards ameliorating the negative effects of hard coal decline in the Ruhr area lagged behind the onset of decline, caused major political conflicts, and has been variously criticized for its reactive character that failed to generate ...
In:
Social Sciences
13 (2024), 7, 339
| Daniel Baron, Walter Bartl
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What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We investigate consequences of land inequality, exploiting variation in land inheritance rules that traverse political, linguistic, geological, and religious borders in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible. Using ...
In:
The Economic Journal
134 (2024), 664, 3137-3172
| Charlotte Bartels, Simon Jäger, Natalie Obergruber
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There is growing interest in understanding how gender influences the accumulation of wealth. While prior studies focused on labor-related determinants, our research focuses on inheritances and gifts. Using unique survey data that oversamples the top 1% of wealth holders in Germany, we show that the gender wealth gap is small for individuals up to age 40, then widens, and declines for those past retirement ...
In:
Economics Letters
246 (2025), 111997
| Charlotte Bartels, Eva Sierminska, Carsten Schröder
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Background: The large increase in numbers of refugees and asylum seekers in Germany and most of Europe has put the issue of migration itself, the integration of migrants, and also their health at the top of the political agenda. However, the dynamics of refugee health are not yet well understood. From a life-course perspective, migration experience is associated with various risks and changes, which ...
In:
PLOS Medicine
17 (2020), 3, e1003093
| Jan Michael Bauer, Tilman Brand, Hajo Zeeb
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Nearly 25 years after the German reunification, vastly different living conditions between East and West Germany still remain. This is particularly true for the distribution of net wealth which is of special importance for the well-being of individuals. Wealth provides utility in a number of ways, for instance, by acting as a buffer against negative income shocks. Using the wealth component of the ...
Tübingen:
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences,
2015,
(University of Tübingen Working Papers in Economics and Finance)
| Gideon Becker
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We provide novel evidence about the incentive and welfare effects of an increase in the generosity of disability benefits. Importantly, a unique policy variation in Germany allows us to isolate the income effect of a change in benefit generosity. We leverage this quasi-experimental policy variation using an RD design to estimate the effect of increasing disability benefits on employment, earnings, ...
In:
IZA DP No. 17298
IZA DP No. 17298
| Sebastian Becker, Annica Gehlen, Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan
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While the existing evidence on added worker effects is mixed, most studies find no or only small effects. However, studies to date have mostly analyzed individuals’ actual labor supply responses to their partners’ job loss, neglecting to consider a potential mismatch between desired and actual labor supply adjustments. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we study individuals’ changes ...
In:
Review of Economics of the Household
(online first) (2024),
| Mattis Beckmannshagen, Rick Glaubitz
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Psychosocial stress is considered a risk factor for physical and mental ill-health. Evidence on socioeconomic inequalities with regard to the psychosocial consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany is still limited. We aimed to investigate how pandemic-induced psychosocial stress (PIPS) in different life domains differed between socioeconomic groups.
In:
BMC Public Health
24 (2024), 1, 1421
| Florian Beese, Benjamin Wachtler, Markus M. Grabka, Miriam Blume, Christina Kersjes, Robert Gutu, Elvira Mauz, Jens Hoebel