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Helping with the kids? : how family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior

Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016

Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the...

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Make sure the kids are ok : indirect effects of ground-level ozone on well-being

Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2020

This paper uses a panel of German individuals and highly granular pollution data to test if air pollution affects adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of individuals with children while not affecting persons without...

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Maternal employment and happiness : the effect of non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction

Berger, Eva M. - 2009

In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time...

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Comparing the determinants of concern about terrorism and crime

Brück, Tilman; Müller, Cathérine - 2009

Both crime and terrorism impose costs onto society through the channels of fear and worry. Identifying and targeting …. However, compared to the drivers of the fear of crime, the determinants of concerns regarding global terrorism are less well … global terrorism and crime, and show that worries about terrorism are driven by similar determinants as those about crime …

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Effectiveness, spillovers, and well-being effects of driving restriction policies

Sarmiento, Luis; Wägner, Nicole; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2021

We study the effectiveness, spillovers, and well-being effects of low emission zones in Germany, an emission-intensity-based driving restriction rapidly growing in popularity. Using regression discontinuity and group-time difference-in-differences designs, we show that previous estimates of the...

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Nobody to play with? : the implications of leisure coordination

Jenkins, Stephen; Osberg, Lars - 2003

We hypothesize that an individual's time use choices are contingent on the time use choices of others because the utility derived from leisure time often benefits from the presence of companionable others inside and outside the household. We develop a model of time use, and demonstrate that its...

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Arbeitszeitrealitäten und Arbeitszeitwünsche in Deutschland : methodische Unterschiede ihrer Erfassung im SOEP und Mikrozensus

Holst, Elke; Bringmann, Julia - 2016

Die Debatte um Arbeitszeiten und deren Regulierung wird in der deutschen Öffentlichkeiterneut geführt. Empirische Grundlage sind dabei häufig Studien auf Basis des Mikrozensusoder des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP), die teilweise erhebliche Unterschiede in ihrenErgebnissen aufweisen...

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Regression discontinuity designs based on population thresholds pitfalls and solutions

Eggers, Andrew C.; Freier, Ronny; Grembi, Veronica; … - 2015 - This version: September 2015

In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...

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Signature requirements and citizen initatives : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Arnold, Felix; Freier, Ronny - 2013

Signature requirements are often used as hurdles to prevent overuse of public referenda. We evaluate the causal effect of lowering signature requirements on the number of observed citizen initiatives. Based on municipality-level data for Germany, we make use of legislative changes at specific...

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How does maternal pension wealth affect family old-age savings in Germany?

Thiemann, Andreas - 2016

This paper examines how families adjust their private old-age savings in response to a change in individual pension wealth. The regression discontinuity approach exploits two expansions of the child care pension benefit, in 1992 and in 1999, as natural experiments. The empirical analysis is...

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