Datasets
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Terrorism and International Tourism: The Case of Germany (replication data)
We analyse how German tourists react to unanticipated shocks that alter their risk perception of selected tourism destinations. Using a difference-in-difference strategy which... -
Identifying free-riding in home-renovation programs using revealed preference...
Identifying free-ridership is significant to several issues relevant to program evaluation, including the calculation of net program benefits and assessments of political... -
Family background and educational attainment - Are there birth order effects ...
This paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of children’s human capital by analyzing the effects of birth order in Germany. These effects are typically... -
Early Life Adversity and Children’s Competence Development: Evidence from the...
This paper investigates the role of early life adversity and home resources in terms of competence formation and school achievement based on data from an epidemiological cohort... -
Data Management in Scholarly Journals and Possible Roles for Libraries – Some...
In our paper, we summarize the findings of an empirical study conducted by the EDaWaX-Project. 141 economics journals were examined regarding the quality and extent of data... -
Career Planning, School Grades, and Transitions: The Last Two Years in a Germ...
In Germany, students in lower track secondary schools (LTSS) typically receive intensive career guidance. Nevertheless, the majority of LTSS student graduates does not start an... -
Corruption and Productivity: Firm-level Evidence (replication data)
This paper uses the 2009 EBRD/World Bank Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) of firms in 28 transition and developed countries. The data set and... -
Voluntary Quits: Do Works Councils Matter? (replication data)
Most of the literature on the effects of German works councils does not deal with the issue of potential endogeneity of works council existence. Exploiting exogenous... -
Journals in Economic Sciences: Paying Lip Service to Reproducible Research? (...
The findings of numerous replication studies in economics have raised serious concerns regarding the credibility and reliability of published applied economic research.... -
Youth Unemployment in the OECD: The Role of Institutions
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Youth unemployment after apprenticeship training and individual, occupation a...
This paper analyses the risk of unemployment, unemployment duration, and the risk of longterm unemployment immediately after apprenticeship graduation. Unemployed apprenticeship... -
Are there Long-Term Earnings Scars from Youth Unemployment in Germany? (repli...
We analyze the relationship between early-career unemployment and prime-age earnings with German administrative linked employer-employee data. The careers of more than 720,000... -
The Association Between Own Unemployment and Violence Victimization Among Fem...
We estimate the association between the unemployment status of young women and the probability that they are subject to violence, using Swedish population register data covering... -
Mitigating Extortive Corruption? Experimental Evidence
Extortive petty corruption takes place when a public official elicits small bribes from citizens for providing public services that the citizens are legally entitled to receive.... -
Determinants of Willingness to Bribe: Micro Evidence from the Educational Sec...
We use a unique dataset based on reported direct personal bribes paid by arts students in China at examinations and in the college admissions process to study willingness to... -
Coaching Disadvantaged Young People: Evidence from Firm Level Data (replicati...
In Germany, apprenticeship training firms currently face a shrinking number of qualified schoolleavers because of smaller birth cohorts and an increasing proportion of school... -
Why We Should Use High Values for the Smoothing Parameter of the Hodrick-Pres...
The HP filter is the most popular filter for extracting the unobserved trend and cycle components from a time series. Many researchers consider the smoothing parameter λ = 1600... -
Physical Activity of Adults: A Survey of Correlates, Determinants, and Effects
We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the... -
Unemployment Compensation and Wages: Evidence from the German Hartz Reforms (...
Using the introduction of fixed unemployment assistance in Germany in 2005 as a unique natural experiment, we find strong evidence that decreased unemployment compensation has... -
Religious Loyalty and Acceptance of Corruption (replication data)
This study investigates the relationship between religiously-induced internalized values of individuals and their specific attitudes regarding the acceptance of corruption. The... -
On the Rationality of Medium-Term Tax Revenue Forecasts: Evidence from German...
This paper examines tax revenue projections in Germany for the period 1968 to 2012 with a focus on forecasting rationality. It is shown that tax revenue forecasts for the... -
Inter-industrial Relations and Sectoral Employment Development in German Regi...
This paper analyses the impact of cluster structures on employment development in Germany according to the hypothesis of Porter (1998). It develops a new way of measuring the... -
Averaging Across Asset Allocation Models (replication data)
Combination of asset allocation models is rewarding if (i) the applied risk function is concave and (ii) there is no dominating model. We show that most common risk... -
Bribing Behaviour and Sample Selection: Evidence from Post-Socialist Countrie...
The Life in Transition Survey II, conducted jointly by the EBRD and the World Bank in late 2010, surveyed almost 39,000 households in 34 countries, mainly in the former... -
Group Decision Making in a Corruption Experiment: China and Germany Compared ...
This paper reports on an experimental investigation of individual versus group decision making in a corruption experiment. -
Data Management in Economics Journals (Replication Data)
In our paper "Data Management in Scholarly Journals and Possible Roles for Libraries – Some Insights from EDaWaX!" for LIBER Quarterly (22),1 we summarize the findings of an... -
Mannheimer Innovationspanel (MIP) 2012 (SUF)
Die Publikation präsentiert Ergebnisse zu einer Schwerpunktfrage in der Innovationserhebung 2012 im Rahmen des Mannheimer Innovationspanels (MIP), die sich dem Thema... -
Banking Systems, Central Banks and International Reserve Accumulation in East...
The corresponding paper examines changes in the balance sheets of the banking system in five East Asian economies which were affected by the 1997 Asian Crisis. These countries...
