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  1. Project // 01.05.2020 – 31.01.2021

    Distributional Effects of Healthcare Spending

    Public spending on healthcare makes up a substantial part of government expenditure in developed countries. Even though the gradient between income and measures of health is well known most studies on inequality…

    01.05.2020 – 31.01.2021
    Inequality and Public Policy
  2. Project // 15.02. – 10.07.2020

    A new "Garantiesicherung"

    This study for the parliamentary group of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen utilizes the ZEW-Mikrosimulation-Model and houshold survey-data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) to evaluate a proposed…

    15.02. – 10.07.2020
    Inequality and Public Policy
  3. Project // 01.10. – 30.11.2019

    Distributional Effects of Family Policy Measures: Empirical Evidence Based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)

    The project analyzes the distributional impact of family policy measures based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). 

    01.10. – 30.11.2019
    Inequality and Public Policy
  4. Project // 01.07.2019 – 31.10.2020

    MannheimTaxation – Payroll Taxes, Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurial Activity

    The objective of this research project – which is financed by the Leibniz-ScienceCampus MannheimTaxation – is to study the causal effect of unemployment insurance benefit levels on the probability to become…

    01.07.2019 – 31.10.2020
    Inequality and Public Policy
  5. Project // 01.05.2019 – 31.07.2020

    Unemployment Benefit Duration and Start-Up Success

    The objective of this research project is to study the causal effect of potential unemployment insurance benefit duration on the actual unemployment duration of unemployed individuals that start a business, their…

    01.05.2019 – 31.07.2020
    Inequality and Public Policy
  6. Project // 01.05. – 30.11.2019

    Social and Regional Importance of Public Services and the Provision of Infrastructure

    As part of the 6th report on poverty and wealth of the German federal government this project analyzes the distributional aspects of the provision of public services. Three closely integrated modules focus on…

    01.05. – 30.11.2019
    Inequality and Public Policy
  7. Project // 01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020

    The Role of Real Estate for old-age Income

    The challenges accompanying demographic change have led many European economies to fundamentally reform their retirement systems by increasingly moving…

    01.01.2019 – 31.12.2020
    Inequality and Public Policy
  8. Project // 01.01. – 30.11.2019

    MannheimTaxation Preferences for tax simplification - Evidence from survey experiments

    There is a general consensus among both policy-makers and the general public that tax systems in induztrialized countries are too complicated and that it is generally desirable to have simpler tax systems. This…

    01.01. – 30.11.2019
    Inequality and Public Policy
  9. Project // 01.10.2018 – 30.11.2019

    Do All-Day Primary Schools Contribute to Maternal Labor Supply?

    Compared to other industrialized countries maternal labor supply in Germany is low, i.e. in terms of participation and because a large share of mothers is working parttime.An important determinant of maternal…

    01.10.2018 – 30.11.2019
    Inequality and Public Policy