Typically, laboratory experiments suffer from homogeneous subject pools and self-selection biases. The usefulness of survey data is limited by measurement error and by the questionability of their behavioral relevance. Here we present a method integrating interactive experiments and...

Trust is a concept that has attracted significant attention in economic theory and research within the last two decades: it has been applied in a number of contexts and has been investigated both as an explanatory and as a dependent variable. In this paper, we explore the questions of what...

Using a unique dataset we study both the actual and self-perceived relationship between subjective well-being and income comparisons against a wide range of potential comparison groups, enabling us to investigate a broader range of questions than in previous studies. In questions inserted into a...

Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Survey (SOEP), this paper assesses the relationship between life satisfaction and religious practice. The main new result here is longitudinal. It is shown that individuals who become more religious over time record long term gains in life...

[Einleitung] Die Corona-Pandemie und die Maßnahmen zu ihrer Bekämpfung haben seit Beginn des ersten Lockdowns im März 2020 die deutsche Wirtschaft und den Arbeitsmarkt vor gewaltige Herausforderungen gestellt. War Arbeitslosigkeit im Angesicht des kontinuierlichen Wirtschaftswachstums und...

Im Rahmen der Energiewende ist festgelegt, den Anteil erneuerbarer Energien bis zum Jahr 2050 auf mindestens 80% des Bruttostromverbrauchs zu steigern. Im Kontext der Diskussionen des Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetzes 2016 (EEG 2016) gibt es eine Diskussion über den Zusammenhang zwischen den...