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The figure reports mean lifetime fertility (realised + planned) by work-from-home (WFH) status. The sample is restricted to respondents aged 20 to 45 who live with a partner. ‘No one WFH’ means neither the respondent nor the partner works from home; ‘Only self WFH’ means only the respondent works from home at least one day per week; and ‘Both WFH’ means both partners work from home at least one day per week.

Fertility has fallen to very low levels in many advanced economies, and many pro-natalist policies appear to deliver modest gains at high cost. Using survey data covering 38 countries, this column shows that both planned and realised fertility are higher among adults who work from home at least one day a week. For couples, fertility is higher still when both partners work from home, indicating that hybrid work may be an overlooked margin for easing the trade-off between family and paid work.

The figure reports mean lifetime fertility (realised + planned) by work-from-home (WFH) status. The sample is restricted to respondents aged 20 to 45 who live with a partner. ‘No one WFH’ means neither the respondent nor the partner works from home; ‘Only self WFH’ means only the respondent works from home at least one day per week; and ‘Both WFH’ means both partners work from home at least one day per week. Fertility has fallen to very low levels in many advanced economies, and many pro-natalist policies appear to deliver modest gains at high cost. Using survey data covering 38 countries, this column shows that both planned and realised fertility are higher among adults who work from home at least one day a week. For couples, fertility is higher still when both partners work from home, indicating that hybrid work may be an overlooked margin for easing the trade-off between family and paid work.

Steven Davis, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Jose Maria Barrero, @nickbloom.bsky.social, Katelyn Cranney, @mathiasdolls.bsky.social, & Pablo Zarate find that both planned and realised fertility are higher among adults who work from home at least one day a week.
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4 weeks ago 4 2 0 0
Description of the figure: Comparing actual 2023 revenues against counterfactual scenarios in which the 2019 system had been kept unchanged or fully indexed shows that governments limited fiscal drag to varying degrees.

The 2022 inflationary spike in Europe has brought renewed interest in fiscal drag. Using harmonised microdata for 21 European countries, this column documents that the progressivity of personal income tax systems gives rise to large tax‑to‑base elasticities, implying substantial potential for fiscal drag if parameters are not adjusted. These effects are more prevalent for labour income and for taxpayers at the bottom and middle of the income distribution. Furthermore, it documents very heterogeneous policy responses across countries over 2019–2023, ranging from incomplete offsetting to over‑compensation of potential fiscal drag.

Description of the figure: Comparing actual 2023 revenues against counterfactual scenarios in which the 2019 system had been kept unchanged or fully indexed shows that governments limited fiscal drag to varying degrees. The 2022 inflationary spike in Europe has brought renewed interest in fiscal drag. Using harmonised microdata for 21 European countries, this column documents that the progressivity of personal income tax systems gives rise to large tax‑to‑base elasticities, implying substantial potential for fiscal drag if parameters are not adjusted. These effects are more prevalent for labour income and for taxpayers at the bottom and middle of the income distribution. Furthermore, it documents very heterogeneous policy responses across countries over 2019–2023, ranging from incomplete offsetting to over‑compensation of potential fiscal drag.

Data from 21 European countries show the progressivity of personal income tax systems gives rise to large tax-to-base elasticities, implying substantial potential for fiscal drag
@mathiasdolls.bsky.social, M Freier, @estebangmiralles.bsky.social, A Mazzon, S Riscado
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1 month ago 5 2 0 2
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Working Paper! 📢
“How Does Information About Inequalities Affect Fairness Views and Policy Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment”
✍️Julia Baarck @mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social

Find out more in the latest CESifo Working Paper!
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

5 months ago 2 1 0 0
Speaking of debt: Framing, guilt, and economic choices In many Germanic languages, the word for ‘debt’ also means ‘guilt’. This column explores whether the linguistic overlap leads to greater debt aversion in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Switzerland. Using a guilt-laden term reduces willingness to borrow, lowers approval for government debt, and influences firms’ financing plans and politicians’ framing of fiscal policy. While support for public debt goes down with use of the laden term, the effect disappears when the purpose of the debt is clear. Linguistic framing may help guide borrowing toward socially optimal levels.

Speaking of debt: Framing, guilt, and economic choices
online at @voxeu.org @cepr.org

@mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social
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5 months ago 4 2 0 0

The paper provides new evidence on the fiscal and distributional implications of fiscal drag in Europe and offers useful data for public-finance analysis.
Many thanks to all contributors! (2/2)

6 months ago 0 0 0 0

Pleased to share collaborative research with the ESCB Network of Microsimulation Modelling: “Fiscal drag in theory and practice – a European perspective.”
Now available as ECB Working Paper:
www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpw... (1/2)

6 months ago 2 0 1 0
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Approval of Government Debt in Germany Rises When the Term “Kredite” Is Used Instead of “Schulden”

Press release on our new @cesifo.org WP w
@mathiasdolls.bsky.social @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social + Cevat & Justyna:
www.ifo.de/en/press-rel...

6 months ago 18 5 0 0
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Words matter!
Change the language about debt → change how people think, feel, and choose.

Our new paper featured in the @faznet.bsky.social : zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha...

Full paper (with C. Aksoy, J. Klejdysz, @apeichl.bsky.social, @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social): www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

8 months ago 6 2 0 0
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Was, glaube ich, immer noch nicht richtig verstanden wird bei den #Zoellen von #Trump : Es geht hier gar nicht um Höhe, unfaire Handelspraktiken, etc. Es geht einzig und allein um einen weiteren Versuch (nach der Ukraine), Europa zu schwächen.

10 months ago 704 199 23 14

(with Julia Baarck and @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social). Thanks to the organizers for putting together such a great program!
www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa... (2/2)

11 months ago 1 0 0 0

I very much enjoyed attending the inspiring International Research Workshop on Perceptions of Inequality at @lseinequalities.bsky.social. I presented my paper "How Do Perceptions of Inequalities Affect Fairness Views and Political Preferences? Evidence from a Randomized Survey Experiment" (1/2)

11 months ago 2 0 1 0

Unser paper (mit @pschuele.bsky.social & @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social) zeigt, dass Informationen von den Teilnehmern unseres Experiments nur dann akzeptiert werden, wenn sie nicht zu stark mit bestehenden Überzeugungen kollidieren. Dies stellt politische Kommunikation vor große Herausforderungen.2/2

11 months ago 1 0 0 0
Geliebter Mietendeckel

Lesenswerter Beitrag in der morgigen FAS über unsere kürzlich veröffentlichte Studie, in der wir untersuchen, warum die Einschätzungen in der Bevölkerung zu Mietpreiskontrollen so stark von jenen in unserer Profession abweichen (1/2):

zeitung.faz.net/fas/wirtscha...

11 months ago 2 1 1 0

Unsere Studie ist daher ein weiterer Hinweis darauf, dass es, u.a. aufgrund des in uns allen ausgeprägten Wunsches nach kognitiver Konsistenz, schwierig ist, im Bereich wirtschaftspolitischer Maßnahmen persönliche Überzeugungen durch wissenschaftliche Informationen zu beeinflussen. END

11 months ago 0 0 0 0

Unsere Ergebnisse stehen im Einklang mit sogenanntem „prior-biased updating“: nach dieser Theorie verändern Menschen ihre Meinung nur, wenn sie Informationen erhalten, die grundsätzlich im Einklang mit den eigenen Überzeugungen stehen. Ist dies nicht der Fall, ändert sich die Meinung nicht. 8/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0
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Allerdings sind diese Ergebnisse getrieben von Befragten, deren Überzeugungen bereits grundsätzlich mit den erhaltenen Informationen übereinstimmten. Befragte, die z.B. stark von den Vorteilen des Mietendeckels überzeugt sind, lassen sich durch Effizienzargumente nicht überzeugen. 7/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

Befragte, die über Effizienzverluste informiert wurden, hatten danach eine weniger positive Einstellung zum Mietendeckel. Genau andersherum ist es, wenn man aufzeigt, dass Mietendeckel Bestandsmieter schützen und so Gentrifizierungsprozesse verlangsamen können. 6/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

Um das herauszufinden, haben wir ein Informationsexperiment unter 18.000 Befragten durchgeführt. Dabei wurden verschiedene Gruppen nicht nur mit den beschriebenen Effizienzverlusten konfrontiert, sondern auch mit weiteren potenziell relevanten Aspekten. 5/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

und zu einer Fehlallokation von Wohnraum (sog. Lock-in Effekt). Wieso war der Mietendeckel dennoch so beliebt? Aus Unkenntnis dieser negativen Effekte, oder befürworten viele Menschen Mietpreiskontrollen aus anderen Gründen, trotz der Effizienzverluste? 4/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

Gleichzeitig gibt es kaum eine wirtschaftspol. Maßnahme, bei der sich die ökonomische Forschung derart einig in ihrer Ablehnung zeigt wie bei Mietpreiskontrollen. Denn diese führen tendenziell zu einer Verringerung des Angebots an Mietwohnungen, Vernachlässigung von Instandhaltungsarbeiten, 3/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0

In der Studie untersuchen wir am Bsp des Berliner Mietendeckels, wieso Mietpreiskontrollen eine derart breite Zustimmung genießen. Der von 2020-21 bestehende Berliner Mietendeckel war eine besonders strenge Form der Mietpreiskontrolle, die laut Umfragen von 3/4 der Bevölkerung befürwortet wurde.2/n

11 months ago 0 0 1 0
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Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. We find that highlighting undesirable price and supply effects low....

Unser paper "Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany" (mit @pschuele.bsky.social und @lisawindsteiger.bsky.social) ist in Economica veröffentlicht:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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11 months ago 6 3 1 0
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Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office What is their love of working from home doing to their economies?

Great piece in The Economist covering our latest research on Working from Home. Despite much coverage of return-to-office mandates put out by large firms, work from home arrangements have been stable since 2023.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

11 months ago 1 0 0 0

What a blast! We had a wonderful, inspiring & FUN 3rd Annual Conference at ifo Fürth 🤩🤓 🥳

Fantastic keynotes by Massimo Morelli, @johannarickne.bsky.social & @michelebelot.bsky.social as well as many many great presentations and very nice poster session 🚀

1 year ago 14 4 1 0
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It was a great honor and pleasure to give the keynote lecture at the First Workshop of the ESCB Network of Microsimulation Modelling at the Banco de Portugal! Many thanks to the organizers for inviting me and for putting together such a great program!
www.bportugal.pt/evento/first...

1 year ago 3 0 0 0

EU econ bubble: We are hiring a senior expert on EU economic policy. All the details in the thread and the link, spread the word!

1 year ago 5 5 0 0

Our results indicate that the tax burden of the real estate transfer tax mainly falls on the sellers. We show that higher transaction taxes have a larger price effect on properties with shorter holding periods because these properties are traded more frequently. (3/3)

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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German proper…

This was a great collaboration, thanks to my amazing coauthors!

Link to the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... (2/3)

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

I'm delighted to share that our paper 'Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market' (with @clemensfuest.bsky.social, @ckrolage.bsky.social and Florian Neumeier) has been published in the Journal of Urban Economics. (1/3)

1 year ago 15 4 2 0

Great workshop in Salzburg for the next two days👇. I very much appreciate the opportunity to present a project on the new digital pension planning tool at an early stage!

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