In spring 2021, DIW Berlin, ZEW Mannheim, and the University of Trier conducted an online survey among self-employed persons to collect data about the situation of the self-employed in Germany one year after the…
New business formation is a key driver of regional transformation and development. While we know that a region's attractiveness for new businesses depends on its resources, infrastructure, and human capital, we…
A broad empirical literature examines the impact of corporate taxes on firms’ investment, location, and tax avoidance behaviour. Other corporate adjustment margins have received little attention. In this paper,…
Why do US college-educated couples with children marry at higher rates than those without a college degree? We argue that investing in children is more valuable for college-educated couples, who are more likely…
Digital therapeutics are increasingly used to complement traditional health care. In a pioneering move, Germany became the first country to introduce a structured regulatory framework — known as the DiGA scheme…
We show that the widespread approach to estimate the career costs of motherhood – socalled “child penalties” – is prone to produce biased results, as it pools first-time mothers of all ages without accounting…
Identifying high growth startups ex-ante and fostering their success is an important policy challenge. Using Swedish registry data, we show that previous labor market earnings of entrepreneurs is a simple…
We examine the welfare effects of removing explicit and implicit fossil fuel subsidies, the latter entailing Pigouvian pricing of local externalities from fossil energy consumption. We map a multi-region,…
Many governments still help to keep fossil fuels cheap – sometimes by directly paying part of the supply cost (explicit subsidies), and at other times by not including the hidden costs of pollution and health…
