Rund 5,3 Milliarden Euro, so ergaben Umfragen des Sozio- oekonomisches Panels (SOEP), spendeten die Deutschen im Jahr 2009 - mitten in der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise. Art und Höhe der Spenden sind in Deutschland gut dokumentiert. Nur wenige Informationen gab es hingegen bislang darüber, wer...

Surveys of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) have shown that Germans donated around 5.3 billion euros in 2009- right in the middle of the financial and economic crisis. The type and amount of donations made is well documented in Germany. However, until recently, there was very little...

Die regelmäßige Haushaltsbefragung des SOEP zum Spendenverhalten hat sich im Jahr 2020 erstmals auch an eine Zufallsstichprobe von Hochvermögenden gerichtet, die im Jahr zuvor in das SOEP aufgenommen wurden. Bei Einbeziehung der Hochvermögenden erhöht sich das private Spendenvolumen im...

For the first time in 2020, the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), an annual survey of private households, surveyed the donation behavior of a random sample of high net worth individuals that had been added in 2019. As a result of this sample, the volume of private donations increased from 9.7 to 10.3...

Umfragen der Langzeitstudie Sozio-oekonomisches Panel (SOEP) zeigen, dass Privatpersonen ab 16 Jahren in Deutschland im Jahr 2017 fast zehn Milliarden Euro spendeten. Das Spendenvolumen ist im Vergleich zum Jahr 2009 wesentlich angestiegen. Die Höhe liegt aufgrund methodischer Vorteile der...

Parents who experience poverty and who want to provide their children with an escape route can be expected to encourage and support their progeny’s education. The evidence that Roma parents behave differently is unsettling. In this paper we test empirically an explanation for that behavior....

The current study aims to investigate how the presence of social norms defines belief formation on future changes in social identity (i.e., diachronic identity), and how those beliefs affect individual decisions under uncertainty. The paper proposes a theoretical model in which individuals have...

Today's world faces many challenges that may be solved by using the principles of bioeconomy. Bioeconomy has had a multi-disciplinary approach with the objective of an integrated scope, namely, to achieve sustainable development. In a knowledge-based economy, the link between sustainable...

Although short message services (SMS) are constantly used to transmit information, little is known about the use of SMS by public institutions to direct people. This paper presents a field experiment in France about the effectiveness of SMS in directing disadvantaged people toward public...