Projects

Current Projects

Project duration 01.06.2022 - 31.01.2023
Scientific Analyses of Bavarian Family Policies
Project duration 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2022
MannheimTaxation: Does infrastructure compensate for higher taxes? Experimental evidence from a large-scale manager survey
Project duration 01.10.2020 - 30.09.2022
Contract with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs: Scientific Advice and Corresponding Dialog Formats Concerning the Welfare State, the Working Environment, and the Social Market Economy
Project duration 01.07.2019 - 31.10.2020
MannheimTaxation – Payroll Taxes, Unemployment Insurance and Entrepreneurial Activity

Finished Projects

2021
- Project duration 28.01.2021 - 31.05.2021
  Analyzing the Price Effects of the Temporary VAT Cut
- Project duration 01.06.2020 - 31.05.2021
  Willingness to Pay for Human Capital Insurance: Evidence from Germany
- Project duration 01.05.2020 - 31.01.2021
  Distributional Effects of Healthcare Spending

2020
- Project duration 01.05.2020 - 31.08.2020
  A stimulus package for the local communities as response to the Corona Crisis
- Project duration 15.02.2020 - 10.07.2020
  A new "Garantiesicherung"
- Project duration 01.05.2019 - 31.07.2020
  Unemployment Benefit Duration and Start-Up Success
- Project duration 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2020
  The Role of Real Estate for old-age Income
- Project duration 01.03.2018 - 15.12.2020
  Fiscal and Individual Returns to Education
- Project duration 01.05.2017 - 31.12.2020
  Costs and Returns from Changing the Field of Study and Dropping out of University

2019
- Project duration 01.10.2019 - 30.11.2019
  Distributional Effects of Family Policy Measures: Empirical Evidence Based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP)
- Project duration 01.05.2019 - 30.11.2019
  Social and Regional Importance of Public Services and the Provision of Infrastructure
- Project duration 01.01.2019 - 30.11.2019
  MannheimTaxation Preferences for tax simplification - Evidence from survey experiments
- Project duration 01.10.2018 - 30.11.2019
  Do All-Day Primary Schools Contribute to Maternal Labor Supply?
- Project duration 01.10.2018 - 30.09.2019
  Understanding Public Attitudes and Political Preferences in the Context of Automatization of the Labor Force
- Project duration 01.09.2018 - 31.08.2019
  MannheimTaxation – Causal Effects of Private Versus Public Health Insurance
- Project duration 01.06.2017 - 31.05.2019
  Options to Reform the German Tax and Transfer System
- Project duration 04.10.2016 - 30.04.2019
  Contract with the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs: Scientific advise and corresponding dialog formats concerning the welfare state, the change of work and social integration
- Project duration 03.05.2016 - 31.05.2019
  Public Finance Dialogue
- Project duration 01.04.2016 - 31.03.2019
  SEEK Project 2016: European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI
- Project duration 01.04.2016 - 31.05.2019
  SEEK-Project 2016: Fiscal and Labour Policy Institutions and Inequality

2018
- Project duration 01.08.2018 - 31.12.2018
  Mikrosimulation von Reformszenarien zur finanziellen Entlastung von Geringverdienern
- Project duration 01.07.2018 - 30.09.2018
  Arbeitsangebotseffekte einer Reform des Kinderzuschlags
- Project duration 01.03.2018 - 31.08.2018
  Do in-Kind Benefits Reach Children?
- Project duration 01.03.2017 - 31.08.2018
  US Tax Reform Proposals - Implications and Evaluation
- Project duration 01.01.2015 - 30.12.2018
  Behavioral Incidence Effects of Tax Reforms
- Project duration 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2018
  The Effects of Family Policy on Labour Supply and Fertility Decisions: Evidence from a Dynamic Structural Micro-Economic Model with Task-Specific Human Capital, Estimated Using Microdata for France and Germany

2017
- Project duration 01.10.2016 - 31.03.2017
  Future Old-Age Poverty in Germany: Projection and Options for Reform
- Project duration 15.08.2016 - 31.05.2017
  Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in the Social Market Economy
- Project duration 15.08.2016 - 31.05.2017
  Vorschlag für ein effizientes, einfaches und gerechtes Steuer-und Transfersystem zur Steigerung inklusiven Wachstums
- Project duration 08.06.2016 - 08.06.2017
  Labour Supply Modelling Using the EUROMOD Microsimulation Model
- Project duration 01.01.2016 - 31.01.2017
  Convergence of Unemployment Benefit Schemes in Europe
- Project duration 01.09.2014 - 31.08.2017
  Automatic Fiscal Stabilisers in the EU During the Recent Crisis - Perspectives for a Fiscal Union?

2016
- Project duration 05.10.2016 - 31.10.2016
  Mikrosimulationsstudie zur Familienförderung
- Project duration 13.07.2016 - 31.08.2016
  Child allowances in the social insurance
- Project duration 01.06.2016 - 11.07.2016
  Familienförderung: Sachleistungen
- Project duration 01.12.2015 - 30.11.2016
  How Much do Circumstances Beyond the Control of Persons Determine Income Inequality?
- Project duration 01.12.2015 - 30.06.2016
  Evaluation of reform options for an improved material security of children
- Project duration 01.12.2015 - 30.09.2016
  One Year after the Introduction of a German Minimum Wage - A Summary
- Project duration 01.02.2015 - 31.12.2016
  Feasibility and Added Value of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme
- Project duration 01.01.2015 - 31.03.2016
  Meta-study on Labour Supply Elasticities and the Elasticity of Taxable Income

2015
- Project duration 15.09.2015 - 06.11.2015
  Distributional Effects of Marriage- and Family-related Benefits and Measures
- Project duration 16.02.2015 - 22.04.2015
  Possibilities to Improve Top Income and Wealth Data
- Project duration 01.01.2015 - 31.12.2015
  Jointly Optimal Income Taxes for Different Types of Income
- Project duration 01.09.2014 - 31.12.2015
  Analyse der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen in Deutschland
- Project duration 01.07.2014 - 31.12.2015
  Property Taxes and Rental Housing
- Project duration 01.07.2014 - 31.05.2015
  An Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area? A Comparison of Different Alternatives Using Micro Data
- Project duration 01.06.2014 - 01.06.2015
  Tax Incidence and Behavioural Effects of Taxation
- Project duration 01.04.2014 - 30.09.2015
  SEEK Project 2014: Evaluating the Introduction of a Uniform Minimum Wage in Germany: A Structural Equilibrium Job Search Approach
- Project duration 01.10.2013 - 30.09.2015
  Perspectives for a European Fiscal Union

2014
- Project duration 01.08.2014 - 30.09.2014
  Automatic Stabilisers in the Eurozone: Analysis of their Effectiveness at the Member State and Euro Area Level and in International Comparison
- Project duration 06.06.2014 - 31.12.2014
  Reform Options for the German Fiscal Equalization
- Project duration 01.04.2014 - 31.12.2014
  Returns to Educational Investments
- Project duration 01.10.2013 - 31.03.2014
  Cost of Non-Europe of the Absence of an Unemployment Insurance Scheme for the Euro Area
- Project duration 01.10.2013 - 30.09.2014
  SEEK 2013: Fiscal Policy in Europe After the Financial and Economic Crisis: Incentive, Stabilization and Distributional Effects
- Project duration 17.08.2013 - 31.03.2014
  Economic Expertise on the German Vertical Equalization Scheme
- Project duration 01.04.2013 - 30.09.2014
  SEEK-Project 2013: The Effects of Family Policy on Education, Labour Supply, and Fertility Decisions