[Introduction] An important issue in the current German public and political discourse is the development of housing prices. Sharply increasing rents, shortage of living space in urban areas and rural exodus are some of the discussed problems. Despite its topicality, few data are available on...

There exists empirical evidence for Germany that income inequality has increased. Further, development of housing prices is quite heterogeneous between regions. In this paper we analyze regional inequality regarding purchasing power per capita. By contrast to the existing literature we apply...

[Introduction] Against the backdrop of global warming, many countries have implemented a large suite of environmental and energy policies. Germany has initiated the so-called "Energiewende" (Energy Transition), which involves a withdrawal from nuclear power, an increase in energy efficiency, and...

Low Emission Zones (LEZs) reduce local air pollution by restricting emission-intensive vehicles from accessing designated areas and have been shown to improve population health. Little is known about the effects of driving restriction policies on other areas of life. This paper studies the...

How does a new highway in Germany impact residential real estate prices - both owner-occupied and rental properties? Construction of the A38 highway was completed in 2009 and expanded by additional interchanges at several points in time, through 2013. The highway connects the east and west of...

The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany from 2007 onwards. The data are based on information from the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers both apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data are available for scientific research only. The...

The FDZ Ruhr provides a dataset on real estate advertisements in Germany from 2007 onwards. The data are based on information from the internet platform ImmobilienScout24 and covers both apartments and houses for sale and for rent. The data are available for scientific research only. The...

This report gives a short description of the data set Smaragd-Survey. The data have been collected by a commercial market research institute, infas360. Infas360 conducts online surveys several times a year with about 10,000 participants. These surveys are distributed as "Casa Monitor" and focus...

During the pandemic, many measures were taken to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Some of these measures, such as school closures, directly affected students. Children from different backgrounds are likely to have different abilities to cope with the challenges of the pandemic and associated...