This paper analyzes whether technological change improves equality of labormarket opportunities by increasing the returns to skills relative to the returns toparental background. We find that in…
We study a policy introducing diagnosis related payment for inpatient mental health care in Germany with rates decreasing over length of stay. Using data on all hospital cases, we first examine which hospitals…
Im September 2023 stellte die CDU das Konzept der „Aktiv-Rente“ vor. Die Idee dahinter ist, den Arbeitsverdienst von Rentnerinnen und Rentnern, die neben dem Bezug einer gesetzlichen Rente eine bezahlte…
We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany’s needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by…
This paper shows that nineteenth-century industrialization is an essential determinant of the pronounced changes in economic prosperity across German regions over the last 100 years. Using novel data on economic…
With NextGenerationEU (NGEU), macroeconomically significant debt has been incurred via the European Union (EU) budget for the first time. It is controversial whether this marks the start of continuous EU debt.…
