treatment of the demand for adoption. We show that the propensity to adopt a child increases in the degree of own altruism …, infertility, relatedness to the child, costs of own child birth, and any adoption-specific monetary return that is received net of …, je höher die Kosten einer Geburt sind und je größer etwaige finanzielle Renditen, die sich aus einer Adoption ergeben …

offer their patients at regular times. To assess the magnitude of these effects, this study analyzes the effects of low … staff-to-patients ratios on patient outcomes empirically. We use the variation of patient admissions over time as a proxy … demand on outcomes is biased upwards. The reason is that when demand is high more patients with a higher unobservable frailty …

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting … times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the …

I examine the determinants of both perceived inflation and unemployment in one single survey and include personality … traits (BFI-S) in the analysis. This is the first survey on this topic in Germany. My sample consists of 1,771 students from …