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In this paper we investigate the causal effect of years of schooling on health and health-related behavior in West Germany. We apply an instrumental variables approach using as natural experiments several changes in compulsory schooling laws between 1949 and 1969. These law changes generate exogenous variation in years of schooling both across states and over time. We find evidence for a strong and ...
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Journal of Health Economics
30 (2011), 2, S. 340-354
| Daniel Kemptner, Hendrik Jürges, Steffen Reinhold
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While previous research has looked at the determinants of the quality of institutions, not much research has been done that looks at the determinants of institutional change. This paper examines what determines the probability of an improvement in political freedoms. Several path-dependent variables, such as the history of political freedom, are clearly influential. In addition to that, economic openness ...
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Kyklos
64 (2011), 3, S. 410-426
| Olaf J. de Groot
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We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the virtual world Second Life. Second Life users do not have the same demographic profile as the general population, but the differences are not as large as we expected. The mechanisms and causes of life satisfaction seem to be similar in the two samples. Among Second Life users, satisfaction with their ...
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Kyklos
64 (2011), 3, S. 313-328
| Edward Castronova, Gert G. Wagner
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Improved understanding of the innovative pathways of renewable energy technologies is vital if we are to make the transition to a low carbon economy. This study presents new evidence on innovation and industry dynamics in concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. Though CSP is undergoing a renaissance, existing innovation studies have explored innovative activity in solar technologies in general, ...
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Energy Policy
39 (2011), 5, S. 2441-2456
| Frauke G. Braun, Elizabeth Hooper, Robert Wand, Petra Zloczysti
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Die Arbeitslosigkeit in Ostdeutschland bewegt sich seit Jahren auf einem doppelt so hohen Niveau wie in Westdeutschland bei gleichzeitigem Rückgang der sozialversicherungspflichtigen Beschäftigung. Wir analysieren diese Entwicklungen für einzelne Geburtskohorten der Jahrgänge 1937-1971. Dazu schätzen wir auf der Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panel (SOEP) für Männer und Frauen differenziert nach Bildungsgruppen ...
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Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung
43 (2010), 2, S. 169-190
| Johannes Geyer, Viktor Steiner
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East Asia has been considered a latecomer with respect to Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). Since the turn of the last century, however, FTAs with East Asian participation have seen an intra- and extra-regional expansion. Many trade initiatives have been proposed, negotiated or even implemented. This introduces interesting perspectives for the analysis of trade agreements regarding their anticipatory trade ...
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Review of World Economics
147 (2011), 3, S. 429-456
| Florian Mölders, Ulrich Volz
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This study examines the regional divide for Mexican manufacturing. Mexico's north-south disparity is widely noted, but rarely analyzed empirically and at detailed regional level. We use a panel of municipality-level data to estimate regional production functions. An important contribution is the application of nested panel and stochastic frontier models to capture latent regional characteristics and ...
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Journal of Developing Areas
45 (2011), S. 291-311
| Astrid Cullmann, Frauke G. Braun
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In this paper, we provide a comprehensive multivariate cointegration analysis of three parts of the steam coal value chain - export, transport and import prices. The analysis is based on a rich dataset of international coal prices; in particular, we combine data on steam coal prices with freight rates, covering the period December 2001 until August 2009 at weekly frequency. We then test whether the ...
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Energy Economics
34 (2012), 1, S. 105-116
| Aleksandar Zaklan, Astrid Cullmann, Anne Neumann, Christian von Hirschhausen
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Efficiency measurement in public transport requires an adequate account of unobserved network characteristics that are typically modelled as factors separable from the production process. This paper proposes a panel data model that allows for non-separable firm-specific heterogeneity in an input distance function. The proposed model is applied to a sample of German and Swiss urban transit companies ...
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
46 (2012), 1, S. 51-66
| Astrid Cullmann, Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini
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This paper assesses the relative efficiency of knowledge production in the OECD using a nonparametric DEA approach. In general, resources allocated to R&D are limited and therefore must be used efficiently, given the institutional and legal constraints. The efficiency scores presented are based on an intertemporal frontier estimation for the period 1995 to 2004. We analyse the impact of the regulatory ...
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Oxford Economic Papers
64 (2012), 1, S. 176-196
| Astrid Cullmann, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke, Petra Zloczysti
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Hausmann, Pritchett, and Rodrik (2005) found that political regime changes, external shocks and economic reforms are statistically significant predictors of growth accelerations. Updating the data from 1992 up to 2000 and correcting for coding errors, this paper argues that the original results are fragile upon changes in period, sample, measures, and inclusion of controls. All the data are provided ...
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Econ Journal Watch
8 (2011), 1, S. 39-55
| Guo Xu
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We examined measurement invariance and age-related robustness of a short 15-item Big Five Inventory (BFI-S) of personality dimensions, which is well suited for applications in large-scale multidisciplinary surveys. The BFI-S was assessed in three different interviewing conditions: computer-assisted or paper-assisted face-to-face interviewing, computer-assisted telephone interviewing, and a self-administered ...
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Behavior Research Methods
43 (2011), 2, S. 548-567
| Frieder R. Lang, Dennis John, Oliver Lüdtke, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Why are female entrepreneurs so rare? In Germany, women exhibit both a lower entry rate into and higher exit rate from self-employment. To explain this gender gap, this study estimates a structural microeconometric model of transition rates that includes a standard risk aversion parameter. Inputs into the model are the expected value and variance of earnings from self-employment and dependent employment, ...
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Applied Economics
44 (2012), 14, S. 1795-1812
| Frank M. Fossen
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What determines the yields at which international investors are willing to lend to emerging market countries, and the amounts of such lending? We analyze the motivation underlying investors' choices in allocating their holdings across countries, through regressions for both prices (bond yields) and quantities (bond market capitalization or stocks of external liabilities) estimated during two waves ...
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Review of Finance
15 (2011), 1, S. 207-243
| André Faria, Paolo Mauro, Aleksandar Zaklan
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Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) that, from its theoretical properties, proves to be more robust than the Lerner-Index. However, the proof of the empirical practicability and robustness of the Boone-Indicator is missing. To fill this gap, we use a rich, newly built, data set for German manufacturing enterprises and test its empirical validity ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
231 (2011), 3, S. 336-357
| Alexander Schiersch, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke
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This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic ...
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Journal of Health Economics
30 (2011), 3, S. 591-601
| Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
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Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through free allocation of ETS certificates play an important role. Yet the quantification of allocation-related investment ...
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Energy Policy
39 (2011), 4, S. 1975-1987
| Michael Pahle, Lin Fan, Wolf-Peter Schill
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Zeitschrift für Familienforschung
22 (2010), 3, S. 261-265
| Christian Schmitt, Heike Trappe
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We estimate firms' cash flow sensitivity of cash to empirically test how the financial system's structure and level of development influence their financial constraints. For this purpose we merge Almeida et al.'s work, a path-breaking design for evaluating a firm's financial constraints, with that of Levine, who paved the way for comparative analysis of financial systems around the world. We conjecture ...
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Journal of International Money and Finance
30 (2011), 4, S. 678-691
| Christopher F. Baum, Dorothea Schäfer, Oleksandr Talavera
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Experimental evidence reveals that there is a strong willingness to trust and to act in both positively and negatively reciprocal ways. So far it is rarely analyzed whether these variables of social cognition influence everyday decision making behavior. We focus on entrepreneurs who are permanently facing exchange processes in the interplay with investors, sellers, and buyers, as well as needing to ...
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Journal of Economic Psychology
33 (2012), 2, S. 394-409
| Marco Caliendo, Frank M. Fossen, Alexander S. Kritikos