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A maximum likelihood bunching estimator of the elasticity of taxable income (...
This paper develops a maximum likelihood (ML) bunching estimator of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI). Our structural approach provides a natural framework to... -
What does the German minimum wage do? The impact of the introduction of the s...
In this article, we examine structural changes in minimum wage and low wage labor following the in-troduction and first increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the... -
German Firms in International Trade: Evidence from Recent Microdata
In this paper, we zoom in on the firm level of German merchandise foreign trade, using a novel data base with information on the export and import value by firm, country,... -
Extreme weather events and economic activity: The case of low water levels on...
We make use of historical data on water levels on the Rhine river to analyze the impact of weather-related supply shocks on economic activity in Germany. Our analysis shows that... -
Revisiting the effect of growing up in a recession on attitudes towards redis...
Giuliano and Spilimbergo (2014) show that individuals who experienced a recession when young are more likely to favor redistribution in the short and long run. We revisit their... -
How do people discount over spatial distance?
This paper studies how individuals discount the utility they derive from their provision of goods over spatial distance. In a controlled laboratory experiment in Germany, we... -
Evolution of the New Market Tax Credit
The New Market Tax Credit (NMTC) is a place-based policy in the United States which annually incentivizes billions in direct investments towards selected impoverished... -
Team performance and the perception of being observed: experimental evidence ...
We exploit the natural experimental setting provided by the Covid-19 lockdown to analyse how performance is affected by a friendly audience. Specifically, we use data on all... -
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... -
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,... -
On the effects of e-participation on shadow economy: A worldwide empirical an...
This paper explores the relationship between the e-participation attitude of citizens and the size of the shadow economy, whose consequences could be detrimental to countries’... -
Immigration and anti-immigrant voting in the 2017 German parliamentary election
We empirically examine the relationship between immigration and votes for the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in the 2017 German parliamentary election. We conduct a... -
Markups for Consumers - Replication Files
A central motivating factor for studying price markups is their effect on consumer welfare. However, reported estimates of (firm-level) price markups in the literature often... -
“Thanks in Advance” - the Negative Effect of a Polite Phrase on Compliance wi...
This paper studies the effect of the commonly used phrase "thanks in advance" on compliance with a small request. In a controlled laboratory experiment we ask participants to... -
The fall and rise of market power in Europe
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Giving and taking in dictator games – differences by gender? A replication st...
These data and code reproduce the results presented in the paper "Giving and taking in dictator games – differences by gender? A replication study of Chowdhury et al. (Southern... -
Data for the analysis of the effects of rapid structural change on workers
The data set used for the analyses of this paper is generated from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). The SOEP is a household panel survey conducted on yearly basis since 1984 in... -
Quality of Politicians and Electoral System. Evidence from a Quasi-experiment...
We study the effect of the electoral system on the quality of politicians, measured by the average educational attainment, at the local level in Italy over the period 1994-2017.... -
Trade and the Size Distribution of Firms: Evidence from the German Empire
What effect did trade have on the size distribution of firms during the first wave of globalization? Three historical datasets from the German Empire between 1875 and 1907 were... -
The Benefits of Remoteness - Digital Mobility Data, Regional Road Infrastruct...
We investigate the regional distribution of the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. We use a novel digital mobility dataset, that traces the undertaken trips on Easter Sunday 2020 and...
