This paper provides the first evidence that children's economic preferences vary systematically with parental mental health. Using experimentally elicited measures of economic preferences from more than 4,500 children in Bangladesh, we document that children of parents with indications of mental...

We examine the ezects of introducing prompted choice on organ donation behavior. Applying a generalized dizerence-in-dizerences design, we take advantage of the gradual roll-out of a policy in Italy that integrated the question of organ donation preference into the process of identity card...

Does land development adapt to changing climate risks? Extreme precipitation increases flood risk, yet land-use decisions may overlook rare events. Drawing on nearly half a century of climate and land-use data for Europe (1975-2020), this paper finds that extreme precipitation slows the...

This paper presents causal evidence on how financial aid for Hungarian minorities in Slovakia leads to their non-assimilation. Using a staggered panel event study design, I show that the introduction of financial aid by the Hungarian government led to a statistically significant 2.35 percentage...

The European energy market is comprised of a diverse range of actors, each with distinct roles and objectives. This paper proposes a taxonomy that categorizes these actors into five groups: governance, grid and transport, supply, demand, and investors. Utilizing extant literature, we identify...

We leverage micro-data to identify macro shocks in time series settings. We exploit firm-level forecast errors on prices and production along with information on production impediments to construct a shock series capturing input material constraints. Our approach allows to separately identify...

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent with climate change, yet cold stress events remain understudied. I use the 2021 Texas freeze to examine household adaptation to extreme weather-induced blackouts, focusing on (1) adaptation uptake, (2) socio-economic disparities in adaptive...

Non-state actors, such as religious institutions and leaders, play a central role in governance and social life in many low- and lower-middle-income countries. We examine whether information about how tax revenues are used for public goods and service provision increases voluntary tax...

Wind turbines play an important role in the green transition towards a pollutionfree generation of electricity. Yet, the deployment of new wind turbines faces increasing local and political opposition. The public discourse routinely goes beyond wind turbines' established negative impact on house...

We examine fiscal policies and parliamentary activities of minority governments in the German states. Our sample includes the 16 German states over the period 1981-2024. The results show that minority governments implemented similar fiscal policies to majority governments. Minority governments...