This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

This volume was prepared by Susanne Link during her stay at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich and the Department of Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute of Economic Research. It was accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Departure of the University of Munich in...

Diese Dissertation besteht aus drei eigenständigen Aufsätzen zur semiparametrischen Schätzung von Behandlungseffekten. Behandlungseffekte bezeichnen den kausalen Effekt einer Variablen auf eine bestimmte Zielgröße und die semiparametrischen Schätzungen vermeiden die parametrischen Annahmen...