In recent years, microeconometrics experienced the "credibility revolution", culminating in the 2021 Nobel prices for David Card, Josh Angrist, and Guido Imbens. This "revolution" in how to do empirical work led to more reliable empirical knowledge of the causal effects of certain public...

This paper studies the evolution of three higher education wage differentials from 1996 to 2019 in Germany. We distinguish between degrees from academic universities, degrees from universities of applied sciences, and the master craftsman\craftswoman certificate. The educational reference...

This study proposes a novel way to examine self-selection on unobserved skills and applies it to a sample of young males seeking asylum in 2015/2016 in Germany. First, the degree of intergenerational mobility of these refugees is assessed, specifically their educational improvement in comparison...

Der Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen hat erstmals ein breit angelegtes Gutachten zur Lage der Verbraucher:innen in Deutschland vorgelegt. Gert G. Wagner, Mitglied im Sachverständigenrat für Verbraucherfragen, stellt aus seiner persönlichen Sicht ausgewählte Analysen, Ergebnisse...

There is a differentiated literature on policy advice, but it is largely disconnected from the literature (and the underlying research landscape) on academic communication, which originally dealt only with the natural sciences. And both strands of the discussion are barely connected to the...

Elementarschäden an Immobilien werden klimabedingt zunehmen, aber noch immer sindin Deutschland nicht alle Wohnimmobilien gegen Elementarschäden versichert. Sie sindaber überall zu tragbaren Prämien versicherbar. Die zentralen Parameter, die es zu regelngilt, sind der Abdeckungsgrad...