traits using a school reform carried out at the state level in Germany as a quasi-natural experiment. Starting in 2001 …, academic-track high school (Gymnasium) was reduced from nine to eight years in most of Germany's federal states, leaving the … point to important heterogeneous effects. In addition to differences between East and West Germany, we find that male …

examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax …

correlations of cognitive skills in Germany are roughly the same or slightly stronger than those found by previous studies for … Germany seem to be considerably higher than the ones found for the U.S.. Hence, skill transmission does not seem to be able to …

die Steuerlast in Deutschland? - Verteilungswirkungen des deutschen Steuer- und Transfersystems” (Who bears the tax burden … in Germany? – Distributional Analyses of the German tax and transfer system). Financial support from the Hans Böckler …

birth cohorts in Germany. The analysis is based on a rich dataset that combines household survey data from the German Socio … East Germany and for the low educated. Using simulated life cycle employment and income profiles, we project gross future …

, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's sixteen federal states. We exploit this variation in …-in-differences estimates show thatthe introduction of smoke-free legislation in Germany did not change average smoking behavior within the …