Based on multivariate linear regression models, we analyze the effect of the lunar cycle and the number of sunspots occurring on a particular day on the number of births using social security data and controlling for a number of other potential confounders. The daily number of births between...

Die Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina und der Rat für Nachhaltige Entwicklung (RNE) legen ein gemeinsames Positionspapier vor, in dem Wege zur Klimaneutralität bis 2050 vorgestellt werden. Leopoldina und RNE zeigen darin Handlungsoptionen für die erforderlichen Veränderungen...

In 2013, the German Council of Economic Experts advised the then future German government to pursue a decisively marketoriented economic reform agenda in the fields of labour market and pension policy, tax policy and climate policy. Yet, policy makers have ignored this advice, basically...