Ruhr Economic Papers

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585: Spillover effects of local human capital stock on adult obesity: Evidence from German neighborhoods

Rui Dang

584: Indirect fiscal effects of long-term care insurance

Johannes Geyer, Peter Haan and Thorben Korfhage

583: Start me up: How fathers' unemployment affects their sons' school-to-work transitions

Michael Kind

582: The dynamics of earnings in Germany: Evidence from social security records

Timm Bönke, Matthias Giesecke and Holger Lüthen

581: Health shocks and risk aversion

Simon Decker and Hendrik Schmitz

580: Explaining the body mass index gaps between Turkish immigrants and Germans in West Germany 2002-2012: A decomposition analysis of socio-economic causes

Rui Dang

579: The lighting transition in Africa: From kerosene to LED and the emerging dry-cell battery problem

Gunther Bensch, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

578: That's just - not fair: Gender differences in notions of justice

Nicole Becker, Kirsten Häger and Jan Heufer

577: Beyond Balassa and Samuelson: Real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece

Ansgar Belke, Ulrich Haskamp, Gunther Schnabl and Holger Zemanek

576: The nonparametric approach to evolutionary oligopoly

Hamed M.Moghadam

575: Price and non-price competition in oligopoly: An analysis of relative payoff maximizers

Hamed M.Moghadam

574: Long-term care reform and the labor supply of household members: Evidence from a quasi-experiment

Johannes Geyer and Thorben Korfhage

573: Time lags in the pass-through of crude-oil prices: Big data evidence from the German gasoline market

Manuel Frondel, Colin Vance and Alex Kihm

572: What works? A meta analysis of recent active labor market program evaluations

David Card, Jochen Kluve and Andrea Weber

571: The long shadows of past insults intergenerational transmission of health over 130 years

Claudia Andreella, Martin Karlsson, Therese Nilsson and Matthias Westphal

570: Rural electrification and domestic violence in Sub-Saharan Africa

Maximiliane Sievert

569: Planned fiscal consolidations and growth forecast errors: New panel evidence on fiscal multipliers

Ansgar Belke, Dominik Kronen and Thomas Osowski

568: Disentangling two causes of biased probability judgment: Cognitive skills and perception of randomness

Kai Duttle

567: Do hospitals respond to increasing prices by supplying fewer services?

Martin Salm and Ansgar Wübker

566: Does height affect labor supply? Implications of product variety and caloric needs

Martin Micheli

565: On the relation between capital flows and the current account

Anne Oeking and Lina Zwick

564: International liquidity shocks and domestic loan supply in the euro area

Lina Zwick

563: Does parenthood make happy people happier? A lifecycle analysis using panel quantile regression

Evgenia Samoilova and Colin Vance

562: Experimental evidence on the long term impacts of a youth training program

Pablo Ibarraran, Jochen Kluve, Laura Ripani and David Rosas Shady

561: Weight loss and sexual activity in adult obese individuals: Establishing a causal link

Arndt Reichert, Harald Tauchmann and Ansgar Wübker

560: The robustness of the effects of public investment in infrastructure on private output: Evidence for Germany

Tobias Kitlinski

559: The role of targeted predictors for nowcasting GDP with bridge models: Application to the Euro area

Tobias Kitlinski and Philipp an de Meulen

558: With or without you: Do financial data help to forecast industrial production?

Tobias Kitlinski

557: The Political Economy of Public Investment when Population is Aging – A Panel Cointegration Analysis

Philipp Jäger and Torsten Schmidt

556: Impacts of Rural Electrification Revisited – The African Context

Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

555: Does Large Scale Infrastructure Investment Alleviate Poverty? Impacts of Rwanda's Electricity Access Roll-Out Program

Luciane Lenz, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

554: A First Step Up the Energy Ladder? Low Cost Solar Kits and Household's Welfare in Rural Rwanda

Michael Grimm, Anicet Munyehirwe, Jörg Peters and Maximiliane Sievert

553: The Pecuniary and Non-pecuniary Returns to Voucher-financed Training

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

552: Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Katja Görlitz and Marcus Tamm

551: Am I my Peer's Keeper? Social Responsibility in Financial Decision Making

Sascha Füllbrunn and Wolfgang Luhan

550: Income Shocks or Insurance - What Determines Consumption Inequality?

Johannes Ludwig

549: Ready for Take-off? The Economic Effects of Regional Airport Expansion

Philipp Breidenbach

548: Banking Union as a Shock Absorber

Ansgar Belke and Daniel Gros

547: Communication Problems? The Role of Parent-child Communication for the Subsequent Health Behavior of Adolescents

Daniel Avdic and Tugba Büyükdurmus

546: Crowdsourcing of Economic Forecast – Combination of Forecasts Using Bayesian Model Averaging

Dongkoo Kim, Tae-hwan Rhee, Keunkwan Ryu and Changmock Shin

545: How Health Plan Enrollees Value Prices Relative to Supplemental Benefits and Service Quality

Christian Bünnings, Hendrik Schmitz, Harald Tauchmann and Nicolas Ziebarth

544: Alliance Formation in Contests with Incomplete Information

Lars P. Metzger

543: The Effects of Introducing Mixed Payment Systems for Physicians – Experimental Evidence

Jeannette Brosig-Koch, Heike Hennig-Schmidt, Nadja Kairies-Schwarz and Daniel Wiesen

542: The Burden of Germany's Energy Transition – An Empirical Analysis of Distributional Effects

Manuel Frondel, Stephan Sommer and Colin Vance

541: Towards a Multidimensional Poverty Index for Germany

Nicolai Suppa

540: Does the Burglar Also Disturb the Neighbor? Crime Spillovers on Individual Well-being

Daniel Avdic and Christian Bünnings

539: Weather, the Forgotten Factor in Business Cycle Analyses

Roland Döhrn and Philipp an de Meulen

538: Beer, Wood, and Welfare

Michael Grimm and Jörg Peters

537: How Do Consumers Choose Health Insurance? – An Experiment on Heterogeneity in Attribute Tastes and Risk Preferences

Nadja Kairies-Schwarz, Johanna Kokot, Markus Vomhof and Jens Wessling

536: The Effect of Ethnic Clustering on Migrant Integration in Germany

Sandra Schaffner and Barbara Treude