How can retirement savings be increased? We explore a unique policy change in the context of the German pension system to study this question. As of 2004, the German pension authority started to send out annual…
Despite the prevalence of government surveillance systems around the world, causal evidence on their social and economic consequences is lacking. Using county-level variation in the number of Stasi informers…
In dieser Kurzexpertise wurde anhand von Daten des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels und Simulationen mit dem ZEW-Mikrosimulationsmodell der Einfluss zentraler familienpolitischer Leistungen auf die Verteilung der…