ZEW Mannheim

Jul 19, 2024 | academic.oup.com | Leibniz Universität Hannover |IZA Bonn |ZEW Mannheim |Universitat Pompeu Fabra

We investigate the impact of public childcare provision on the incidence of severe child maltreatment. For identification, we exploit a reform that expanded early childcare in Germany, generating large temporal and spatial variation in childcare coverage at the county level.

Apr 30, 2024 | link.springer.com | ZEW Mannheim |IZA Bonn

AbstractAbout half of government expenditure in the United States takes the form of government consumption (e.g., education, defense, infrastructure). In many studies of post-tax inequality based on the Dina framework (including the influential study by Piketty et al. (Q J Econ 133(2):553–609, 2018), government consumption is allocated either proportionally to post-tax disposable income or on a per-capita basis, and the level of inequality is fairly sensitive to this choice.

Dec 13, 2023 | academic.oup.com | TU Dortmund |ZEW Mannheim |IZA Bonn |KU Leuven

We analyze the effect of subsidies on firm R&D, conditional on firms’ access to external financing during the financial crisis when access to external financing was particularly difficult. Specifically, we determine whether subsidies can mitigate or completely offset the effect of external financing constraints of firms or banks. Financial constraints are considered through (i) firms’ credit ratings, and (ii) the capital reserves of their banks.