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WTP vs. WTA : christmas presents and the endowment effect

Bauer, Thomas K. (contributor); … - 2008

Using data on the valuation of Christmas gifts received by students in different fields at a German university, we investigate whether the endowment effect differs between students of economics and other respondents and whether it varies with the market price of the object under consideration....

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Authentic happiness theory supported by impact of religion on life satisfaction : a longitudinal analysis with data for Germany

Headey, Bruce; Schupp, Jürgen; Tucci, Ingrid; Wagner, … - 2008

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...

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The impact of demographic change on human capital accumulation

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Sinning, Mathias G. - 2009

effect of the relative cohort size on educational attainment of young adults in Germany is analyzed utilizing data from the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003847074

Life satisfaction and relative income : perceptions and evidence

Mayraz, Guy; Wagner, Gert G.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2009

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...

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Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003909227

The phantom of the opera : cultural amenities, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2010

We analyze the extent to which endogenous cultural amenities affect the spatial equilibrium share of high-human-capital employees. To overcome endogeneity, we draw on a quasi-natural experiment in German history and exploit the exogenous spatial distribution of baroque opera houses built as a...

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Policy evaluation and economic policy advice

Schmidt, Christoph M. (contributor) - 2007

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality. By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific...

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Who starts a business and who is self-employed in Germany

Fritsch, Michael; Kritikos, Alexander; Rusakova, Alina - 2012

entrepreneurship in Germany between 1991 and 2010, the first two decades after reunification. We investigate the socioeconomic … increase in self-employment in Germany by 40 percent which can partly be attributed to the transformation process of East … Germany and to the shift to the service sector. We notice a yearly start-up rate of 1 percent among the working population …

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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011

regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307337

First- and second-generation migrants in Germany : what do we know and what do people think

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2001

This paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Microzensus with a … moderate actual public transfer payment dependence of migrants to Germany with the perception of migrants dependence on public …

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