Browsing Rechts-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften by Advisor "Schwager, Robert Prof. Dr."
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Theoretic Essays in Public Economics
(2024-02-09)This dissertation combines four theoretic models in public economics. The first two chapters consider welfare and distributional effects within a general equilibrium trade model with oligopoly focusing on corporate taxation ... -
Empirical Studies on Migration
(2023-10-02)Research over the past decades has documented growing migration flows worldwide; and specifically increased immigration into developed countries of the global north. Against this background, this thesis investigates the ... -
Linguistic Relativity and Economic Outcomes
(2022-06-03)Research by linguists, psychologists and cognitive scientists has shown that the grammatical and lexical structures of languages affect human cognition. This hypothesis of linguistic relativity has been taken up by economists ... -
Behavioral Interventions and Students' Success at University - Evidence from Randomized Field Experiments
(2022-01-20)Research over the past decades has documented the various individual and social returns to tertiary education. In many countries, however, the realization of those returns is jeopardized by high dropout rates and delayed ... -
Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study
(2017-04-24)The thesis „Everyday Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Study“ analyzes the individuals' decision-making and the role of institutions in creating incentives and influencing individuals' choices. The first part ... -
Modeling Approaches in Educational Research
(2017-02-03)This dissertation focuses on three different questions in the field of education, using the method of theoretical modeling. The subject discussed first refers to the existence of tuition fees. If the personal question of ... -
Student Performance in Higher Education: Ability, Class Attendance, Mobility and the Bologna Process
(2016-12-14)The thesis “Student Performance in Higher Education: Ability, Class Attendance, Mobility and the Bologna Process” empirically analyzes determinants of students’ success at university. Administrative student data as well ... -
Telling stories or solving problems? The 20-20-20 package and the efficiency of EU Climate Change Policies
(2016-06-20)The main instrument for the EU climate change protection plans relies on the 20-20-20 by 2020 targets. This roadmap, adopted in 2008, is the result of years of continuing work for a joint programme for Europe-wide application ... -
Microanalyses of Voting, Regulation and Higher Education
(2015-06-22)This dissertation contains economic microanalyses of voting, regulation and higher education. It is about individual decisions, institutions, and the incentives the latter create. Three chapters of this dissertation are ... -
Institutions, Incentives and Local Policies
(2009-10-27)At the core of this book are theoretical and empirical analyses of how local policies are shaped by the incentives that various institutions in education and media markets create for economic ... -
Wettbewerb im öffentlichen Schulwesen: Strategische Interaktion und Politikinnovation in US-amerikanischen Schuldistrikten
(2006-10-25)Several empirical studies on the innovation activity of local jurisdictions are presented. Focussing on the innovation activity of local school districts in the US, structural evidence on ...