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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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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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More opportunity, more cooperation : the behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth

Felfe, Christina; Kocher, Martin; Rainer, Helmut; … - 2018

how to bridge such divides. We study the effects of a major citizenship reform in Germany - the introduction of birthright …

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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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Caught between cultures : unintended consequences of improving opportunity for immigrant girls

Dahl, Gordon B.; Felfe, Christina; Frijters, Paul; … - 2020

children born in Germany after January 1, 2000. Using survey data we collected in 57 German schools and comparing those born in …

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Modeling fiscal sustainability in dynamic macro-panels with heterogeneous effects : evidence from German federal states

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A.; Wolfinger, Julia - 2018

In this paper, we extend Henning Bohn's (2008) fiscal sustainability test by allowing for slope heterogeneity and cross-sectional dependence (CD). In particular, our econometric approach is the first that allows fiscal reaction functions (FRF) to capture unobserved heterogeneous effects from...

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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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Political socialization in flux? : linking family non-intactness during childhood to adult civic engagement

Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut; Siedler, Thomas - 2012

Over the last several decades, there has been a widespread decrease in civic engagement coinciding with a breakdown in traditional family structures in many countries throughout the developed world. According to Putnam in Bowling alone (2000), however, none of the major declines in civic...

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Why birthright citizenship matters for immigrant children : impacts on parental educational choice

Felfe, Christina; Rainer, Helmut; Saurer, Judith - 2016

birthright citizenship in Germany caused immigrant parents to adapt their educational choices for their offspring. We employ a …

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Do party ties increase transfer receipts in cooperative federalism? - evidence from Germany

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2020

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers. We study how parliamentary representation of municipalities on the federal level influences the allocation of federal transfers to municipal governments under this type of...

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