Die Krisen der vergangenen Jahre hatten und haben nachhaltigen Einfluss auf den Wohlstand in Deutschland. Glauben die Bürgerinnen und Bürger noch an die Soziale Marktwirtschaft als Garant eines »Wohlstands für alle«? Basierend auf einer repräsentativen Befragung von 2 000 deutschen...

Bürger*innen haben oft unterschiedliche Vorstellungen von staatlichem Handeln. Eine Repräsentativumfrage unter 2 000 Bürger*innen legt nahe, dass die Befragten eine sehr heterogene Wahrnehmung der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft haben. Während eine Mehrheit von 49% an soziale Aspekte wie Fairness,...

Basierend auf einer repräsentativen Befragung von 2 000 deutschen Bürgerinnen und Bürgern untersuchen wir in einer dreiteiligen Serie, wie die Soziale Marktwirtschaft in der Bevölkerung wahrgenommen wird. Im letzten Teil widmen wir uns der Frage, wie sich die Zustimmung zur...

This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's...

This study investigates the determinants of economists' life satisfaction. The analysis is based on a survey of professional, mostly academic economists from European countries and beyond. We find that certain features of economists' professional situation influence their well-being. Happiness...

Exploiting the natural experiment of German reunification, we study whether having experienced socialism has an enduring effect on people's basic values. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we show that individuals that lived in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) assign different...

This study investigates whether the willingness to take income risks revealed by occupational choice is transmitted from parents to their children. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we find that fathers' riskiness of job is a significant determinant of children's...

Most countries pay substantial intergovernmental transfers to poor regions with the aim of achieving regional convergence. Consequently, transfers should have a positive effect on economic growth. However, it is equally possible that transfers perpetuate under-development. This paper studies...

Sales from businesses to consumers provide fertile ground for collaborative tax evasion. However, little is known about the phenomenon. We conduct a natural field experiment with 2,900 businesses in which we take the role of consumers and vary if we request an invoice for the delivery of a...

Using data the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we investigate whether the willingness to take risks which is revealed via observed choices of occupation is transmitted from parents to children. Our approach resembles the one by Dohmen et al. (2008) who investigate the same question using...