The ubiquity of smartphones has enabled the collection of novel data through their built-in sensors, including geolocation data which can be used to understand mobility behavior. In this project, we leveraged longitudinal geolocation data collected from participants in the 2018 German app study...

Research apps allow to administer survey questions and passively collect smartphone data, thus providing rich information on individual and social behaviours. Agreeing to this novel form of data collection requires multiple consent steps, and little is known about the effect of...

Since January 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected everyday life around the world, and rigorous government lockdown restrictions have been implemented to prevent the further spread of the pandemic. The consequences of the corona crisis and the associated lockdown policies for public health,...

Since January 2020, the COVID-19 crisis has affected everyday life around the world, and rigorous government lockdown restrictions have been implemented to prevent the further spread of the pandemic. The consequences of the corona crisis and the associated lockdown policies for public health,...

Curfews present the most restrictive measure aiming to fight the spread of the COVID 19-pandemic. A somewhat weaker form are night time curfews. Night time curfews were imposed all over the world (e.g. USA, France, Germany or Argentina) and are still in force in many countries and have been even...

Als Reaktion auf den Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 verlagerte sich die Arbeit für viele Erwerbstätige – erstmalig oder verstärkt – ins Homeoffice. Zwei aktuelle Onlinebefragungen des IAB zeigen, in welchem Ausmaß sich die Homeoffice-Nutzung in Deutschland seit der...

Als Reaktion auf den Ausbruch der Covid-19-Pandemie im Frühjahr 2020 verlagerte sich die Arbeit für viele Erwerbstätige - erstmalig oder verstärkt - ins Homeoffice. Zwei aktuelle Onlinebefragungen des IAB zeigen, in welchem Ausmaß sich die Homeoffice-Nutzung in Deutschland seit der Pandemie...

This article explores the anatomy of three recent financial scandals and investigates how the legal system has responded to them. Furthermore, it analyses whether behavioural designs can prevent future criminal offenses. The article comes to the conclusion that the social as well as the physical...

The European Commission mandated the consulting firm CE Delft to develop a framework for the internalisation of external costs and to devise a number of potential internalisation scenarios for further analysis. The results of their preliminary research are published in a CE discussion paper, and...