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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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A deprivation-based assessment of energy poverty : conceptual problems and application to Germany
Heindl, Peter; Schüßler, Rudolf - 2019
In this paper, subjective and objective aspects of deprivation are used to derive an aggregated multidimensional measure of energy poverty. The proposed measure is based on deprivation with a direct relation to energy consumption, but it also accounts for excessive financial restrictions due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098484
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Seasonal scarcity and sharing norms
Bartoš, Vojtěch - 2018
How does scarcity affect individual willingness to share and willingness to enforce sharing from others? Sharing in poor communities gains importance as an insurance mechanism during adverse shocks, yet shocks make it costlier to share. I conducted repeated economic experiments in both a lean...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905245
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841
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Coupled lotteries : a new method to analyze inequality aversion
Koch, Melanie; Menkhoff, Lukas; Schmidt, Ulrich - 2019
more risk averse, to having social status concerns, and to relying more often on formal and informal insurance. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108631
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Risk, time pressure, and selection effects
Kocher, Martin; Schindler, David; Trautmann, Stefan T.; … - 2018
Time pressure is a central aspect of economic decision making nowadays. It is therefore natural to ask how time pressure affects decisions, and how to detect individual heterogeneity in the ability to successfully cope with time pressure. In the context of risky decisions, we ask whether a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011899690
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria - 2019
that is due to heterogeneous skill endowments. Meanwhile, taxes and transfers insure 45% of lifetime earnings risk. Taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108653
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Insurance, redistribution, and the inequality of lifetime income
Haan, Peter; Kemptner, Daniel; Prowse, Victoria; … - 2023
productive abilities and education. Additionally, the system insures against 48% of lifetime earnings risk. Implementing a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014427523
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Income in Jeopardy : how losing employment affects the willingness to take risks/ Clemens Hetschko; Malte Preuss
Hetschko, Clemens; Preuss, Malte - 2015
Using German panel data, we assess the causal effect of job loss, and thus of an extensive income shock, on risk … attitude. In line with predictions of expected utility reasoning about absolute risk aversion, losing oneś job reduces the … perceives the threat of job loss and is of a transitory nature. The change in stated risk attitude matches observable job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405097
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On measuring uncertainty and its impact on investment : cross-country evidence from the euro area
Meinen, Philipp; Röhe, Oke - 2016
Investment fell sharply in the euro area after the financial crisis and has not yet returned to pre-crisis levels in many core economies. Focusing on the four largest euro-area countries, this paper investigates the role of uncertainty for investment dynamics. By doing so, we compare five...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571047