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An economic cost-benefit analysis of a general speed limit on German highways
Thiedig, Johannes - 2018
Uniquely amongst industrialized countries worldwide, Germany does not impose a general speed limit on highways. This is different in the Netherlands, where a limit of 130km/h is implemented. The direct border between the two countries provides an opportunity to construct a natural experiment and...
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Alcohol, violence and injury-induced mortality: evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles D. H.; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
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Alcohol and short-run mortality : evidence from a modern-day prohibition
Barron, Kai; Bradshaw, Debbie; Parry, Charles D. H.; … - 2021
On July 13, 2020 a complete nation-wide ban was placed on the sale and transport of alcohol in South Africa. This paper evaluates the impact of this sudden and unexpected five-week alcohol prohibition on mortality due to unnatural causes. We find that the policy reduced the number of unnatural...
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The effects of an increase in the retirement age on health : evidence from administrative data
Barschkett, Mara; Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; … - 2021
This study analyzes the causal effect of an increase in the retirement age on health. We exploit a sizable cohort-specific pension reform for women using two complementary empirical approaches - a Regression Discontinuity Design and a Difference-in-Differences approach. The analysis is based on...
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Biased by success and failure : how unemployment shapes stated locus of control
Preuß, Malte; Hennecke, Juliane - 2017
Due to its extraordinary explanatory power for individual behavior, the interest in the concept of locus of control (LOC) has increased substantially within applied economic research. But, even though LOC has been found to affect economic behavior in many ways, the reliability of these findings...
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Compiling a harmonized database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 sample surveys of income and expenditure
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten; Werdt, Clive - 2010
We outline a procedure for combining six cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, and discuss potential pitfalls of such a venture. Particularly, we investigate the consequences of a major break in the survey design for inter-temporal comparisons of expenditure...
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Estimating the density of ethnic minorities and aged people in Berlin : multivariate kernel density estimation applied to sensitive geo-referenced administrative data protected via...
Groß, Marcus; Rendtel, Ulrich; Schmid, Timo; Schmon, … - 2015
Modern systems of official statistics require the timely estimation of area-specific densities of sub-populations. Ideally estimates should be based on precise geo-coded information, which is not available due to confidentiality constraints. One approach for ensuring confidentiality is by...
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German financial state aid during COVID-19 pandemic : higher impact among digitalized self-employed
Bertschek, Irene; Block, Jörn; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
In response to strong revenue and income losses that a large share of the self-employed faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, the German federal government introduced a €50bn emergency aid program. Based on real-time online-survey data comprising more than 20,000 observations, we analyze the...
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Is local bias a cross-border phenomenon? : evidence from individual investors’ international asset allocation
Baltzer, Markus; Stolper, Oscar; Walter, Andreas - 2013
stocks (local bias). We hypothesize that individual investors’ local bias is not limited to the domestic sphere but instead … also determines their international investment decisions. Our results confirm the presence of a cross-border local bias … display a significantly lower foreign investment bias towards investment opportunities in that country and (ii) that this drop …
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Quantifying bias and inaccuracy of upper-level aggregation in HICPs for Germany and the euro area
Herzberg, Julika; Knetsch, Thomas A.; Schwind, Patrick; … - 2021
Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation …
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