Towards a social discount rate for the economic evaluation of health...
AbstractOver the last decades, methods for the economic evaluation of health care technologies were increasingly used to inform reimbursement decisions. For a short time, the German Statutory Health...
View ArticleEducation Policy and Intergenerational Income Mobility
AbstractPublic investment in human capital may be beneficial for two reasons: on the one hand they promote equal opportunity, on the other hand they may have a redistributive effect. In addition,...
View ArticleSocial Beliefs and Redistributive Politics
AbstractWith uncertainty about the relative weighting of the income determinants, different beliefs regarding, for example, the role of effort significantly affect incentives to work, the demand for...
View ArticleIntergenerational Income Persistence in Germany: the Role of Education and...
AbstractSince the late 1980s in the field of economics, empirical studies have enhanced the focus on intergenerational income mobility within societies (for international comparisons see, for example,...
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AbstractOpportunities for economic success are usually not equal across individuals in a society; in fact, they are characterized by inherited social structures. During feudalism in medieval Europe...
View ArticleIncome Mobility and Preferences for Redistribution: Empirical Observations
AbstractThere is a growing body of literature questioning the proposition that solely the relative position in the income distribution determines individual preferences for redistribution as stated by...
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AbstractAt present, the refusal of extensive redistributive policy in the U.S. population is conspicuous when tracing Obamaʼs attempt to reform the health care system. In contrast to the United States,...
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AbstractEconomic mobility across generations is important in terms of equity and efficiency. Recently intergenerational income mobility has aroused great interest in the field of economics. With regard...
View ArticleGeneral Introduction and Motivation
AbstractWith his book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, Thomas Piketty doubtlessly caught the spirit of the age. He addresses the dynamics which drive the accumulation and distribution of capital,...
View ArticleConclusions
AbstractAccording to Piketty (1995), supporters of left-wing parties—characterized by favoring an extensive welfare state—are more represented in low-income classes and less represented in high-income...
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AbstractThere is a growing consensus in economic literature that culture, as revealing social norms, values, and beliefs, crucially influences society and potentially produces critical economic...
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AbstractThis part focuses on how education investment influences intergenerational income mobility both on theoretical and empirical grounds. As demonstrated in the theory-based study in Chapter 3,...
View ArticleDifferential discounting in the economic evaluation of healthcare programs
AbstractBackgroundThe question of appropriate discount rates in health economic evaluations has been a point of continuous scientific debate. Today, it is widely accepted that, under certain conditions...
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