Public procurement requirements and voluntary standards are increasingly used to foster environmental product innovations. However, quantitative evidence on their individual and joint effects is absent, and…
Maternity unit closures are increasingly common in areas with low birth rates, resulting in diminished competition between units. We examine how competition affects the quality and amenities of the remaining…
We study firm responses to local policies through a survey experiment, providing randomized information on the competitiveness of business tax rates and highway access in their headquarters’ municipality. Firms…
Educational tracking—separating students into tracks or schools by ability — is commonplace, but access and preferences for top programs often depend on socioeconomic status (SES), reinforcing inequality. We…
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) have become a key antipoverty policy in Latin America in the last 25 years. The ultimate goal of this kind of programs is to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty…
Die digitale Transformation eröffnet neue Wege, wie wir arbeiten, zusammenwirken und gestalten – ob im Homeoffice, durch KI-gestützte Prozesse oder in virtuellen Teams. Dies bietet Chancen für mehr Flexibilität…
Based on survey data among citizens from Germany and Sweden, this paper examines the individual support for climate-related passenger transport policy measures. Our descriptive statistics reveal that pull policy…
