We study how public school teachers use paid sick leave. Most U.S. sick leave schemes operate as individualized credit accounts – paid leave is earned and unused leave accumulates, producing an employee-specific…
This paper analyzes the local economic impacts of troop deployments. We exploit variation from the historic large-scale US troop withdrawal from Germany triggered by the end of the Cold War, to estimate the…
We investigate whether the local economic effects of niche university actors depend on regional context. Focusing on private university campuses in Germany, we exploit their staggered foundation between 1990 and…
Public procurement is widely regarded as an important instrument to foster innovation. We examine how additional award criteria beyond price relate to firms’ realized innovation performance by combining…
Policy makers increasingly recognize circular public procurement as a demand-pull instrument for stimulating the transition to a circular economy. However, empirical studies on circular public procurement have…
For many mothers, having children leads to a significant drop in income. In the latest episode of the ZEW podcast “Wirklich Wirtschaft,” Dr Lukas Riedel from ZEW's “Inequality and Distribution Policy” research…
