Publications of the Research Group Inequality and Public Policy

• Socially Responsible Behaviour Can Slow the Spread of the Coronavirus
• Innovative Companies Are More Resilient to Crises and Less Prone to Cut Employment
• Contact-Tracing App: Creating Incentives for Fast and…

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pan­demic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Swe­den, Switzerland and the UK. We exploit…

We extend the canonical income process with persistent and transitory risk to shock distributions with left-skewness and excess kurtosis, to which we refer as higher-order risk. We estimate our extended income…

We discuss important properties and pitfalls of panel-data event study designs. We derive three main results. First, binning of effect window endpoints is a practical necessity and key for identification of…

Based on a detailed model of the German tax-benefit system, this paper simulates private and fiscal returns to education for college graduates and college dropouts. Completing a five-year college degree is found…

We investigate the long-run effects of government surveillance on civic capital and economic performance, studying the case of the Stasi in East Germany. Exploiting regional variation in the number of spies and…

• Emerging Economies Catch up to Developed Countries in Terms of Competitiveness
• Equity as Profitable Old-Age Investment
• Gender Norms Influence Salary Information of Men and Women in Surveys
• European…

We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on…