Public flood protection cannot totally eliminate the risk of flooding. Hence, private mitigation measures which … proactively protect homes from being flooded or reduce flood damage are an essential part of modern flood risk management. This … study analyses private flood mitigation measures among German households. The dataset covers more than 6000 households from …

Flood insurance helps to cope with the risk of flooding, but take-up rates are relatively low. Insurance density could … damage data for a major flood in 2013. We find IBI to attract similar customers as DBI, while DBI is preferred on average …

survey data from German homeowners, we analyze charity hazard for different flood precaution strategies, namely insurance … uptake and non-financial protection measures, and different flood risk areas. Our results indicate a substantial charity … hazard in the insurance market for individuals residing in flood-prone areas. In contrast, we find a positive correlation …

I propose two new tests of Falk and Knell's (2004)prediction that individuals'reference income increases with ability …. To overcome the difficulty that the reference income is not observed in existing large data sets, I extend Falk and Knell …'s model to establish a link between immigrants' reference income and their return visits to their countries of origin. I …

accession affects income gaps. Moreover, if EU membership is refused, fear of future restrictions on immigration will lead to …

characteristics such as the woman's level of education, or household income, have at most a marginal impact on these profiles. … individuals, as a function of characteristics of both the individual and the household she lives in, on the basis of household … Czechoslovakia, but significant progress toward a more balance diet has taken place over the period. Finally, household …