Im Rahmen des ExWoSt-Forschungsfelds „Quartiers-Impulse“ wurden über einen zweijährigen Untersuchungszeitraum (2006-2008) stadtteilbezogene Ansätze der Wirtschaftsförderung erprobt und umgesetzt, um ihre Eignung als neue Bestandteile der Stadtentwicklungspolitik zu prüfen. Die Akteure...

We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...

We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups obtain Euro150 and Euro300, respectively, for achieving an individually assigned target weight...

As part of its efforts to reach the targets of the Kyoto Protocol, in April 2009 the European Commission enacted new legislation to reduce the per-kilometer CO2 emissions of newly registered automobiles. This paper critically assesses this legislation with respect to its economic and...

We test whether financial incentives have an effect on weight reduction in a randomized controlled trial involving 700 obese persons assigned to three experimental groups. While two treatment groups obtain €150 and €300, respectively, for achieving an individually assigned target weight...

Using German survey data, this paper show that the valuation of Christmas gifts varies considerably among the gift receivers. Whether the gifts are associated with an efficiency loss, as some empirical studies for the US conclude, depends however on the particular question posed to gift...

[fre] Les rigidités du marché du travail sont souvent avancées pour en expliquer les dysfonctionnements, et notamment le niveau élevé de chômage que connaissent encore les économies européennes. Le marché du travail allemand présenterait ainsi nombre de rigidités comme, par exemple,...

This paper addresses the question of whether the effect of parental drinking on children's later consumption of alcohol - which is frequently found to be of positive sign - exhibits a certain pattern of heterogeneity. In particular, if this effect is more prominent in the upper tail than...

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...

Recently, building on the highly polarizing Stiglitz report, a growing literature suggests that statistical offices and applied researchers explore other aspects of human welfare apart from material well-being, such as job security, crime, health, environmental factors and subjective...