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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010

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

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Tax morale after the reunification of Germany : results from a quasi-natural experiment

Feld, Lars P. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2007

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Ordoliberalism, pragmatism and the Eurozone crisis : how the German tradition shaped economic policy in Europe

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Nientiedt, Daniel - 2015 - This version: May 18, 2015

extent this contention holds and to what extent Germany pragmatically responded to different crisis phenomena. A proper …

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Why are educated and risk-loving persons more mobile across regions

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Sustainability of German fiscal policy and public debt : historical and time series evidence for the period 1850-2010

Burret, Heiko T.; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2013

default. Due to a multitude of large scale events in its past, Germany is far from being an exception: In fact, Germany … Germany's public finances against the standard theoretical background using a unique database, retrieved from multiple sources … historical perception of Germany as the poster child of European public finance. Given these corresponding breaks in time series …

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Children of a (policy) revolution : the introduction of universal child care and its effect on fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2014

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

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Depressing dependence? : transfers and economic growth in the German States, 1975-2005

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Necker, Sarah - 2016

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions. Since these transfers are often paid with the aim of achieving regional convergence, they should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development by...

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When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill : the impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2015

effects of public transit strikes on urban populations in Germany. Due to higher traffic volumes and longer travel times …

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The effect of child care on family structure : theory and evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - 2012

data from Germany, we also present empirical evidence which is consistent with this finding. -- marriage ; divorce ; single …

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The impact of continuous training on a firm's innovations

Bauernschuster, Stefan (contributor); … - 2008

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