Die Leitfrage für die kommende Legislaturperiode lautet: Wie findet Deutschland zurück zur Prosperität? Wenn die Wirtschaft wachsen und die soziale Balance der Gesellschaft gewahrt bleiben soll, dann führt an einer Reihe von marktwirtschaftlich ausgerichteten Reformen kein Weg vorbei. Nur...

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts’ subse-quent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military ser-vice on lifetime earnings, wages, and...

The evaluation of interventions such as active labor market policies or medical programs by means of a randomized controlled trial is often considered the gold standard. However, randomized experiments might face severe shortcomings especially if performed at the group level. One such problem is...