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Speeding, Punishment, and Recidivism : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Gehrsitz, Markus - 2017

This paper estimates the effects of temporary driver's license suspensions on driving behavior. A little known rule in the German traffic penalty catalogue maintains that drivers who commit a series of speeding transgressions within 365 days should have their license suspended for one month. My...

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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies

Heineck, Guido - 2010

question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …

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Symbolic Values, Value Formation and Interpersonal Relations

Corneo, Giacomo - 2009

Interpersonal relations are shaped by the judgements associated with the social categories that individuals perceive in their social contacts. I develop a model of how those judgments form based on a theory of symbolic values. The model depicts the interaction between two values, one associated...

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Caught between Cultures : Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020

children born in Germany after January 1, 2000.Using survey data we collected in 57 schools in Germany and comparing those born … Germany.In contrast, immigrant boys experience, if anything, an improvement in well-being and little effect on other outcomes …

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Undoing Gender with Institutions : Lessons from the German Division and Reunification

Lippmann, Quentin - 2019

Using the 41-year division of Germany as a natural experiment, we show that the GDR's gender-equal institutions created … a culture that has undone the male breadwinner norm and its consequences. Since reunification, East Germany still … differs from West Germany not only by a higher female contribution to household income, but also because East German women can …

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The Impact of Risk Aversion, Role Models, and the Regional Milieu on the Transition from Unemployment to Self-Employment : Empirical Evidence for Germany

Wagner, Joachim - 2021

The focus of this paper is on the choice of the unemployed between becoming an entrepreneur or not. It contributes to the literature by empirically investigating two hitherto neglected issues: What is the impact of risk aversion and personal contact with a role model in shaping the decision to...

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The Accident Externality from Trucking

Muehlenbachs, Lucija A. - 2017

How much risk does a heavy truck impose on highway safety? To answer this question, we look at the rapid influx of trucks during the shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. Using quasi-experimental variation in truck traffic, we isolate the effect of adding a truck to the road. We find an additional...

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Speed Limit Enforcement and Road Safety

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2020

We study the impact on road safety of one-day massive speed limit monitoring operations (SLMO) accompanied by media campaigns that announce the SLMO and provide information on the dangers of speeding. Using register data on the universe of police reported accidents in a generalized...

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When the Market Drives You Crazy : Stock Market Returns and Fatal Car Accidents

Giulietti, Corrado - 2018

The stock market influences some of the most fundamental economic decisions of investors, such as consumption, saving, and labor supply, through the financial wealth channel. This paper provides evidence that daily fluctuations in the stock market have important - and hitherto neglected -...

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Keep Your Clunker in the Suburb : Low Emission Zones and Adoption of Green Vehicles

Wolff, Hendrik - 2014

Germany, we assess the distribution of air pollution and the spatial substitution effects in green versus dirty vehicles …

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