Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteering is a consumption good, we analyze the determinants of individuals' charitable cash donations...

Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital...

This article revisits an analysis by Frondel, Ritter and Schmidt (2008) of Germany's Renewable Energy Act, which legislates a system of feed-in tariff s to promote the use of renewable energies. As in the original article, we argue that Germany's support scheme subsidizes renewable energy...

Volunteering plays a prominent role in the charitable provision of goods and services, yet we know relatively little about why individuals spend time and money to the charity. Assuming that volunteering is a consumption good, we analyze the determinants of individuals' charitable cash donations...

This paper examines the patterns of educational assortative mating in East and West Germany. In the literature it is well known that individuals do not mate randomly with respect to social and cultural traits, and that highly assortative mating can lead to polarization and exacerbate economic...

There is a consensus in the international community that rural electrification and, in particular, the productive use of electricity contributes to poverty alleviation. At the same time, efforts to evaluate the impacts of development projects have increased substantially. This paper provides a...

Die vorliegende Studie ist das Ergebnis eines gemeinsamen Projektes der ADMED GmbH und des RWI. Ziel ist die Darstellung wesentlicher Ineffizienzen im deutschen Gesundheitswesen. Zur Beurteilung ihrer Bedeutung erfolgt eine grobe Abschätzung der damit verbundenen Einsparpotenziale, wobei es...

Der Europäische Sozialfonds (ESF) soll die Tätigkeiten der EU-Mitgliedstaaten zur Entwicklung des Arbeitsmarktes und der Humanressourcen unterstützen und ergänzen. Im Rahmen des ESF-Förderprogramms ist eine Halbzeitbewertung vorgesehen, um die ersten Ergebnisse der arbeitsmarktpolitischen...

Der Bericht der Regierungskommission für die Nachhaltigkeit in der Finanzierung der Sozialen Sicherungssysteme ("Rürup-Kommission") stellt zwei Modelle zur Finanzierung der Krankenversicherung gegenüber: die sog. Bürgerversicherung und das Modell der pauschalen Gesundheitsprämien mit...