Evaluationen stellen auf die kausalen Wirkungen einer Maßnahme ab. Das Lehrbuch führt in die entsprechenden theoretischen und methodischen Grundlagen der Wirkungsevaluation ein und illustriert diese anhand ausgewählter Beispiele. Ziel des Buches ist es dabei, einen praktischen Bezug zum...

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a tremendous challenge to health care systems around the globe. Using original panel survey data for the case of Germany, this paper studies how specific trust in the health care system's ability to cope with this crisis has evolved over the course of the pandemic. It...

Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...