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Leibniz Research Alliance on Energy Transitions

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2013 - 2020

26 - 27 June 2014

Causes and Consequences of Immigration and Citizenship Policies

Over the last decade a new development has taken place, first in the citizenship and then in the immigration literature: more and more researchers have started to quantify admission, integration and naturalization policies and to build indices that aim at measuring the restrictiveness of formal regulations. The developments in the citizenship and immigration fields have however taken place mostly independently from each other. The aim of this conference is therefore to bring together for the first time political scientists, sociologists, economists and others who work on policy indices in these two fields.

26 - 27 June 2014

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Caroline Heuer

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When parents need care

Not all siblings become caregivers, a new study shows

18 March 2014

Not all siblings become caregivers, a new study shows

17 March 2014

When parents need care

Siblings are not equally involved in caregiving when their ageing parents start needing care. In 75 percent of all cases, only one adult child will become a caregiver. Mothers are primarily cared for by their daughters, whereas sons continue to be less willing to become the sole caregivers for their parents. In families without daughters, brothers frequently divide the caregiving work among them. These are the findings that WZB researcher Marcel Raab recently published in a study co-authored with Henriette Engelhardt (University of Bamberg) and Thomas Leopold (University of Amsterdam).

School choice, university admissions, and entry-level labor markets

Hafalir, Isa E./Hakimov, Rustamdjan/Kübler, Dorothea/Kurino, Morimitsu (2014): College Admissions with Entrance Exams: Centralized versus Decentralized. DiscussionPaper SP II 2014-208. Berlin: WZB.

Privacy, social image, trust, and corruption

Market participants not only concerned with their direct monetary benefit from interactions. We show how image concerns affect consumer choices and tax morale, how personal privacy can be protected, trust created and corruption reduced.

Biases in markets

Systematic mistakes in judgements affect economic decisions in many contexts. Over- and underconfidence can affect decisions by job searchers to accept job offers. The endowment effect hinders efficient trading. Finally, people tend to exaggerate the availability of their own information for others or their own past selves (hindsight bias).