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The gender division of unpaid care work throughout the COVID-19 pandemic in G...
The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of day care centres and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There has been much speculation over... -
Thinning out Spectators: Did Football Matches Contribute to the Second COVID-...
The COVID-19 pandemic has decelerated substantial parts of economic and human interaction. This paper estimates football matches’ contribution to the spread of COVID-19 during... -
Testing Investment Forecast Efficiency with Forecasting Narratives
I analyze the narratives that accompany business cycle forecasting reports of three German institutes using topic models. To this end, I gather multiple similar topics into... -
The untold story of Midijobs
Midijobs are employment relationships with moderate monthly earnings that benefit from payroll tax subsidies. Since 2003, the subsidy is universally available for all regions,... -
Economic complexity and productivity polarization: evidence from Italian prov...
In this paper, we analyze the role of economic complexity as a driver of regional labor productivity growth in Italy. The Economic Complexity Index (ECI) measures the... -
Too Much of a Good Thing? Households’ Macroeconomic Conditions and Credit Dyn...
Favorable macroeconomic conditions, accompanied by optimistic consumer confidence, can stimulate and shape households' expectations in such a way that they gradually extrapolate... -
The impact of forecast errors on fiscal planning and debt accumulation
We investigate the impact of errors in medium run tax revenue forecasts on the final budget balance. Our analysis is based on fiscal data for the entirety of German states and... -
Missing growth measurement in Germany
Using detailed establishment-level micro data, this paper analyzes for the German case the hypothesis by Aghion et al. (2019), stating that officially published figures for real... -
A Proposed Hybrid Effect Size Plus p-Value Criterion. A Comment on Goodman et...
This repository contains the R source code to reproduce the simulation results in the comment by Peter Pütz, Arne Kramer-Sunderbrink, Robin Tim Dreher, Leona Hoffmann, and Robin... -
Exit, Voice and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the...
These data and code replicate the results in the comment by Pettersson-Lidbom (Journal of Comments and Replications in Economics, Vol 1(2022-3), DOI: 10.18718/81781.25) on... -
What Determines COVID-19 Vaccination Rates in Germany?
We study the driving forces behind COVID-19 vaccination in German counties using a cross-sectional and a panel approach. We identify several factors that have a significant... -
The Possible Unemployment Cost of Average Inflation Below a Credible Target. ...
These are the replication files for Oraby (JCRE, 2022). The paper aims to replicate Svensson (American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2015). Abstract: This paper replicates... -
The relationship between government and private consumption,A replication of ...
These data and STATA code reproduce the results of this replication study. Abstract of the paper: This paper replicates the article Fiorito and Kollintzas (2004) “Public goods,...