The COVID-19 pandemic exogenously hit many economies early 2020. Exploiting treatment heterogeneity, we use a conditional difference-in-differences design to causally identify how COVID-19 impacted firms'…
We show that in school systems with grade retention or redshirting birth cohort size is negatively related to the grade-level share of students who are too old for their grade. This compositional effect gives…
Seit 1. April 2024 ist für Konsumenten/-innen von Cannabis „Highlife“ in Deutschland angesagt, denn an dem Tag trat das Cannbisgesetz (CanG) in Kraft, und damit die Legalisierung. Allerdings ist der Konsum von…
This article demonstrates that the influence of government ideology on military expenditures is more nuanced than it was shown in previous research and using only aggregated military expenditures may provide…
