differences for different types of vocational training, minor differences between East and West Germany and males and females, and …

to the fit. Using data for the United States, the euro area and Germany, we assess the performance of boosting when …

use the separation of Germany into the communist GDR and the democratic FRG and its reunification in 1990 as a natural … experiment. Relying on household data that are representative for Germany, our empirical results strongly indicate that … conspicuous consumption is relatively more important in East Germany. Importantly, a significant gap in conspicuous consumption …

preferences, we implement parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased …

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …

this background, we empirically investigate gender-role attitudes in reunified Germany. Our results show that East Germans …

net costs of training apprentices are substantial in Germany, whereas apprenticeship training is on average profitable …

. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …