TY - JOUR A1 - Zahedi, Anoushiravan A1 - Öznur Akalin, Renin A1 - Lawrence, Johanna E. A1 - Baumann, Annika A1 - Sommer, Werner T1 - The nature and persistence of posthypnotic suggestions' effects on food preferences BT - an online study JF - Frontiers in nutrition : FNUT N2 - Food preferences are crucial for diet-related decisions, which substantially impact individual health and global climate. However, the persistence of unfavorable food preferences is a significant obstacle to changing eating behavior. Here we explored the effects of posthypnotic suggestions (PHS) on food-related decisions by measuring food choices, subjective ratings, and indifference points. In Session 1, demographic data and hypnotic susceptibility of participants were assessed. In Session 2, following hypnosis induction, PHS aiming to increase the desirability of healthy food was delivered. Afterward, a task set was administrated twice, once when PHS was activated and once deactivated. The order of PHS activation was counterbalanced across participants. The task set included a liking-rating task for 170 pictures of different food items, followed by an online supermarket where participants were instructed to select enough food for a fictitious week of quarantining from the same item pool. After 1 week, Session 3 repeated Session 2 without hypnosis induction in order to assess the persistence of PHS. The crucial dependent measures were food choices, subjective ratings, and the indifference points as a function of time and PHS condition. KW - eating behavior KW - food choice KW - food preferences KW - hypnosis KW - online-supermarket KW - posthypnotic suggestions Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2022.859656 SN - 2296-861X VL - 9 PB - Frontiers Media CY - Lausanne ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benlian, Alexander A1 - Wiener, Martin A1 - Cram, W. Alec A1 - Krasnova, Hanna A1 - Maedche, Alexander A1 - Mohlmann, Mareike A1 - Recker, Jan A1 - Remus, Ulrich T1 - Algorithmic management BT - bright and dark sides, practical implications, and research opportunities JF - Business and information systems engineering Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s12599-022-00764-w SN - 2363-7005 SN - 1867-0202 VL - 64 IS - 6 SP - 825 EP - 839 PB - Springer Gabler CY - Wiesbaden ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Loewenthal, Amit A1 - Miaari, Sami H. A1 - Abrahams, Alexei T1 - How civilian attitudes respond to the state's violence BT - lessons from the Israel-Gaza conflict JF - Conflict management and peace science N2 - States, in their conflicts with militant groups embedded in civilian populations, often resort to policies of collective punishment to erode civilian support for the militants. We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of such policies in the context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and military interventions, purportedly intended to erode support for Hamas, have inflicted hardship on the civilian population. We combine Palestinian public opinion data, Palestinian labor force surveys, and Palestinian fatalities data, to understand the relationship between exposure to Israeli policies and Palestinian support for militant factions. Our baseline strategy is a difference-in-differences specification that compares the gap in public opinion between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank during periods of intense punishment with the gap during periods when punishment is eased. Consistent with previous research, we find that Palestinian fatalities are associated with Palestinian support for more militant political factions. The effect is short-lived, however, dissipating after merely one quarter. Moreover, the blockade of Gaza itself appears to be only weakly associated with support for militant factions. Overall, we find little evidence to suggest that Israeli security policies toward the Gaza Strip have any substantial lasting effect on Gazan support for militant factions, neither deterring nor provoking them relative to their West Bank counterparts. Our findings therefore call into question the logic of Israel's continued security policies toward Gaza, while prompting a wider re-examination of the efficacy of deterrence strategies in other asymmetric conflicts. KW - Israeli-Palestinian conflict KW - political preferences KW - public opinion KW - conflict KW - Palestine Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/07388942221097325 SN - 0738-8942 SN - 1549-9219 PB - Sage Publ. CY - Thousand Oaks ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Abramova, Olga A1 - Wagner, Amina A1 - Olt, Christian M. A1 - Buxmann, Peter T1 - One for all, all for one BT - social considerations in user acceptance of contact tracing apps using longitudinal evidence from Germany and Switzerland JF - International Journal of Information Management N2 - We propose a conceptual model of acceptance of contact tracing apps based on the privacy calculus perspective. Moving beyond the duality of personal benefits and privacy risks, we theorize that users hold social considerations (i.e., social benefits and risks) that underlie their acceptance decisions. To test our propositions, we chose the context of COVID-19 contact tracing apps and conducted a qualitative pre-study and longitudinal quantitative main study with 589 participants from Germany and Switzerland. Our findings confirm the prominence of individual privacy calculus in explaining intention to use and actual behavior. While privacy risks are a significant determinant of intention to use, social risks (operationalized as fear of mass surveillance) have a notably stronger impact. Our mediation analysis suggests that social risks represent the underlying mechanism behind the observed negative link between individual privacy risks and contact tracing apps' acceptance. Furthermore, we find a substantial intention–behavior gap. KW - digital contact tracing KW - privacy calculus KW - longitudinal study KW - privacy risks KW - surveillance KW - intention-behavior gap Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102473 SN - 0268-4012 SN - 1873-4707 VL - 64 SP - 1 EP - 16 PB - Elsevier CY - Kidlington ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Balderjahn, Ingo A1 - Lee, Michael S. W. A1 - Seegebarth, Barbara A1 - Peyer, Mathias T1 - A sustainable pathway to consumer wellbeing BT - the role of anticonsumption and consumer empowerment JF - The Journal of consumer affairs N2 - This study investigates the effect of different anticonsumption constructs on consumer wellbeing. The study assumes that people will only lower their level of consumption if doing so does not also lower personal wellbeing. More precisely, this research investigates how specific subtypes of sustainable anticonsumption (e.g., voluntary simplicity, collaborative consumption, and debt-free living) relate to different states of consumer's wellbeing (e.g., financial, psychosocial, and subjective wellbeing). This work also examines whether consumer empowerment can improve personal wellbeing and strengthen the anticonsumption wellbeing relationship. The results show that voluntarily foregoing consumption does not reduce wellbeing and consumer empowerment plays a significant role in supporting sustainable pathways to consumer wellbeing. This study reasons that empowerment improves consumer sovereignty, but may be detrimental for consumers heavily concerned about debt-free living. The present investigation concludes by proposing implications for public and consumer policymakers wishing to promote appropriate sustainable (anticonsumption) pathways to consumer wellbeing. Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1111/joca.12278 SN - 0022-0078 SN - 1745-6606 VL - 54 IS - 2 SP - 456 EP - 488 PB - Wiley CY - Malden, Mass. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - AbuJarour, Safa'a A1 - Ajjan, Haya A1 - Fedorowicz, Jane A1 - Köster, Antonia T1 - ICT support for refugees and undocumented immigrants JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems : CAIS N2 - Immigrant integration has become a primary political concern for leaders in Germany and the United States. The information systems (IS) community has begun to research how information and communications technologies can assist immigrants and refugees, such as by examining how countries can facilitate social-inclusion processes. Migrants face the challenge of joining closed communities that cannot integrate or fear doing so. We conducted a panel discussion at the 2019 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) in Cancun, Mexico, to introduce multiple viewpoints on immigration. In particular, the panel discussed how technology can both support and prevent immigrants from succeeding in their quest. We conducted the panel to stimulate a thoughtful and dynamic discussion on best practices and recommendations to enhance the discipline's impact on alleviating the challenges that occur for immigrants in their host countries. In this panel report, we introduce the topic of using ICT to help immigrants integrate and identify differences between North/Central America and Europe. We also discuss how immigrants (particularly refugees) use ICT to connect with others, feel that they belong, and maintain their identity. We also uncover the dark and bright sides of how governments use ICT to deter illegal immigration. Finally, we present recommendations for researchers and practitioners on how to best use ICT to assist with immigration. KW - refugees KW - immigration KW - social inclusion KW - deterrence KW - ICT KW - bright side KW - dark side Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04840 SN - 1529-3181 VL - 48 SP - 456 EP - 475 PB - Association for Information Systems CY - New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - AbuJarour, Safa'a A1 - Ajjan, Haya A1 - Fedorowicz, Jane A1 - Owens, Dawn T1 - How working from home during COVID-19 affects academic productivity JF - Communications of the Association for Information Systems : CAIS N2 - The coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has forced most academics to work from home. This sudden venue change can affect academics' productivity and exacerbate the challenges that confront universities as they face an uncertain future. In this paper, we identify factors that influence academics' productivity while working from home during the mandate to self-isolate. From analyzing results from a global survey we conducted, we found that both personal and technology-related factors affect an individual's attitude toward working from home and productivity. Our results should prove valuable to university administrators to better address the work-life challenges that academics face. KW - work from home KW - academic KW - COVID-19 KW - productivity KW - WFH KW - technology KW - usefulness KW - family-work conflict Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.04808 SN - 1529-3181 VL - 48 SP - 55 EP - 64 PB - Association for Information Systems CY - New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Steckel, Jan Christoph A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar T1 - All or nothing BT - climate policy when assets can become stranded JF - Journal of environmental economics and management N2 - This paper develops a new perspective on stranded assets in climate policy using a partial equilibrium model of the energy sector. Political-economy related aspects are considered in the government's objective function. Lobbying power of firms or fiscal considerations by the government lead to time inconsistency: The government will deviate from a previously announced carbon tax which creates stranded assets. Under rational expectations, we show that a time-consistent policy outcome exists with either a zero carbon tax or a prohibitive carbon tax that leads to zero fossil investments - an "all-or-nothing" policy. Although stranded assets are crucial to such a bipolar outcome, they disappear again under time-consistent policy. Which of the two outcomes (all or nothing) prevails depends on the lobbying power of owners of fixed factors (land and fossil resources) but not on fiscal revenue considerations or on the lobbying power of renewable or fossil energy firms. KW - Climate policy KW - Optimal control KW - Political economy KW - Public finance KW - Credible policy KW - Time inconsistency Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2019.01.012 SN - 0095-0696 SN - 1096-0449 VL - 100 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baert, By Stijn A1 - Neyt, Brecht A1 - Siedler, Thomas A1 - Tobback, Ilse A1 - Verhaest, Dieter T1 - Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation BT - a field experiment JF - Economics of education review N2 - Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job interview. To estimate a causal relationship, we conducted a randomised field experiment in which we sent 1248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants with internship experience have, on average, a 12.6% higher probability of being invited to a job interview. KW - internship KW - hiring KW - field experiment KW - human capital KW - signalling Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102141 SN - 0272-7757 VL - 83 PB - Elsevier CY - Oxford ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Marcus, Jan A1 - Siedler, Thomas A1 - Ziebarth, Nicolas R. T1 - The long-run effects of sports club vouchers for primary school children JF - American economic journal: economic policy N2 - Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the twenty-first century. While small-scale experiments change behaviors among adults in the short run, we know little about the effectiveness of large-scale policies or the longer-run impacts. To nudge primary school children into a long-term habit of exercising, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in 2009. In 2018, we carried out a register-based survey to evaluate the policy. Even after a decade, awareness of the voucher program was significantly higher in the treatment group. We also find that youth received and redeemed the vouchers. However, we do not find significant short- or long-term effects on sports club membership, physical activity, overweightness, or motor skills. Apparently, membership vouchers for children are not a strong enough policy tool to overcome barriers to exercise regularly. Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20200431 SN - 1945-7731 SN - 1945-774X VL - 14 IS - 3 SP - 128 EP - 165 PB - American Economic Association CY - Nashville ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Felfe, Christina A1 - Kocher, Martin G. A1 - Rainer, Helmut A1 - Saurer, Judith A1 - Siedler, Thomas T1 - More opportunity, more cooperation? BT - the behavioral effects of birthright citizenship on immigrant youth JF - Journal of public economics N2 - Inequality of opportunity, particularly when overlaid with socioeconomic, ethnic, or cultural differences, may limit the scope of cooperation between individuals. A central question, then, is how to overcome such obstacles to cooperation. We study this question in the context of Germany, by asking whether the propensity of immigrant youth to cooperate with native peers was affected by a major integration reform: the introduction of birthright citizenship. Our unique setup exploits data from a large-scale lab-in-the-field experiment in a quasi-experimental evaluation framework. We find that the policy caused male, but not female, immigrants to significantly increase their cooperativeness toward natives. We show that the increase in out-group cooperation among immigrant boys is an outcome of more trust rather than a reflection of stronger other-regarding preferences towards natives. In exploring factors that may explain these behavioral effects, we present evidence that the policy also led to a near-closure of the educational achievement gap between young immigrant men and their native peers. Our results high -light that, through integration interventions, governments can modify prosocial behavior in a way that generates higher levels of efficiency in the interaction between social groups. KW - in-group favoritism KW - out-group discrimination KW - birthright citizenship KW - lab-in-the-field experiment KW - natural experiment Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2021.104448 SN - 0047-2727 SN - 1879-2316 VL - 200 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Fleischer, Julia A1 - Buzogány, Aron T1 - Unboxing international public administrations BT - the politics of structural change in the UN system (1998–2019) JF - The American review of public administration N2 - Recent debates in international relations increasingly focus on bureaucratic apparatuses of international organizations and highlight their role, influence, and autonomy in global public policy. In this contribution we follow the recent call made by Moloney and Rosenbloom in this journal to make use of “public administrative theory and empirically based knowledge in analyzing the behavior of international and regional organizations” and offer a systematic analysis of the inner structures of these administrative bodies. Changes in these structures can reflect both the (re-)assignment of responsibilities, competencies, and expertise, but also the (re)allocation of resources, staff, and corresponding signalling of priorities. Based on organizational charts, we study structural changes within 46 international bureaucracies in the UN system. Tracing formal changes to all internal units over two decades, this contribution provides the first longitudinal assessment of structural change at the international level. We demonstrate that the inner structures of international bureaucracies in the UN system became more fragmented over time but also experienced considerable volatility with periods of structural growth and retrenchment. The analysis also suggests that IO's political features yield stronger explanatory power for explaining these structural changes than bureaucratic determinants. We conclude that the politics of structural change in international bureaucracies is a missing piece in the current debate on international public administrations that complements existing research perspectives by reiterating the importance of the political context of international bureaucracies as actors in global governance. KW - global public policy KW - international public administration KW - structural change Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/02750740221136488 SN - 0275-0740 SN - 1552-3357 VL - 53 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 35 PB - Sage CY - Thousand Oaks, Calif. ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Bäuml, Matthias A1 - Marcus, Jan A1 - Siedler, Thomas T1 - Health effects of a ban on late-night alcohol sales JF - Health economics N2 - This paper studies the impact of a ban on late-night off-premise alcohol sales between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in Germany. We use three large administrative data sets: (i) German diagnosis related groups-Statistik, (ii) data from a large social health insurance, and (iii) Road Traffic Accident Statistics. Applying difference-in-differences and synthetic-control-group methods, we find that the ban had no effects on alcohol-related road casualties, but significantly reduced alcohol-related hospitalizations (doctor visits) among young people by around 9 (18) percent. The decrease is driven by fewer hospitalizations due to acute alcohol intoxication during the night—when the ban is in place—but not during the day. KW - alcohol control policies KW - binge drinking KW - difference-in-difference KW - road casualties KW - sales restriction KW - synthetic control Y1 - 2022 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4610 SN - 1099-1050 SN - 1057-9230 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 65 EP - 89 PB - Wiley CY - New York, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Singhal, Puja A1 - Pahle, Michael A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Sommer, Stephan A1 - Levesque, Antoine A1 - Berneiser, Jessica T1 - Beyond good faith BT - why evidence-based policy is necessary to decarbonize buildings cost-effectively JF - SSRN eLibrary / Social Science Research Network N2 - The ambitious climate targets set by industrialized nations worldwide cannot be met without decarbonizing the building stock. Using Germany as a case study, this paper takes stock of the extensive set of energy efficiency policies that are already in place and clarifies that they have been designed “in good faith” but lack in overall effectiveness as well as cost-efficiency in achieving these climate targets. We map out the market failures and behavioural considerations that are potential reasons for why realized energy savings fall below expectations and why the household adoption of energy-efficient and low-carbon technologies has remained low. We highlight the pressing need for data and modern empirical research to develop targeted and cost-effective policies seeking to correct these market failures. To this end, we identify some key research questions and identify gaps in the data required for evidence-based policy. KW - energy efficiency KW - decarbonization KW - housing sector KW - heat demand KW - evidence-based policy Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3947800 SN - 1556-5068 PB - SSRN - Elsevier CY - Rochester, NY ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Gruner, Friedemann A1 - Fuß, Sabine A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Minx, Jan C. A1 - Strefler, Jessica A1 - Merfort, Anne T1 - Wie CO2-Entnahmen helfen können, die Klimaziele zu erreichen JF - Klima und Recht Y1 - 2022 UR - https://beck-online.beck.de/?typ=reference&y=300&z=KLIMR&b=2022&s=18&n=1 SN - 2750-0551 VL - 1 IS - 1 SP - 18 EP - 21 PB - C.H. Beck CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Sedova, Barbora A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Mendelsohn, Robert T1 - Distributional impacts of weather and climate in rural India JF - Economics of disasters and climate change N2 - Climate-related costs and benefits may not be evenly distributed across the population. We study distributional implications of seasonal weather and climate on within-country inequality in rural India. Utilizing a first difference approach, we find that the poor are more sensitive to weather variations than the non-poor. The poor respond more strongly to (seasonal) temperature changes: negatively in the (warm) spring season, more positively in the (cold) rabi season. Less precipitation is harmful to the poor in the monsoon kharif season and beneficial in the winter and spring seasons. We show that adverse weather aggravates inequality by reducing consumption of the poor farming households. Future global warming predicted under RCP8.5 is likely to exacerbate these effects, reducing consumption of poor farming households by one third until the year 2100. We also find inequality in consumption across seasons with higher consumption during the harvest and lower consumption during the sowing seasons. KW - climate change KW - weather KW - inequality KW - household analysis KW - India KW - econometrics Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s41885-019-00051-1 SN - 2511-1280 SN - 2511-1299 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 5 EP - 44 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Roolfs, Christina T1 - Carbon pricing and revenue recycling BT - an overview of vertical and horizontal equity effects for Germany JF - CESifo forum Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.cesifo.org/DocDL/CESifo-Forum-2021-5-edenhofer-kalkuhl-roolfs-carbon-pricing-september.pdf SN - 2190-717X SN - 1615-245X VL - 22 IS - 5 SP - 10 EP - 14 PB - Ifo CY - Munich ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Baldenius, Till A1 - Bernstein, Tobias A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - von Kleist-Retzow, Maximilian A1 - Koch, Nicolas T1 - Ordnungsrecht oder Preisinstrumente? BT - zur Verteilungswirkung von Klimaschutzmaßnahmen im Verkehr JF - Ifo-Schnelldienst Y1 - 2021 UR - https://www.ifo.de/DocDL/sd-2021-06-loeschel-etal-klimapolitik-verteilungswirkungen.pdf#page=4 SN - 0018-974X SN - 2700-8371 SN - 2199-4455 VL - 74 IS - 6 SP - 6 EP - 10 PB - Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung CY - München ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Edenhofer, Ottmar A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Requate, Tilman A1 - Steckel, Jan Christoph T1 - How assets get stranded BT - the impact of climate policy on capital and fossil fuel owners : introduction to the JEEM special section on climate policy and political economy JF - Journal of environmental economics and management N2 - Internalizing external costs of carbon is a fundamental goal of climate policy. Since the seminal work of Arthur Pigou in 1920, economic theory has analyzed the efficiency gains arising from various instruments that internalize externalities and lead to Pareto-improvements. It is widely recognized in environmental economics that a carbon price would effectively reflect the scarcity of the atmospheric disposal space for carbon depending on the temperature target that is to be achieved. The question of how to organize the transition process, i.e. moving from inefficient to efficient allocations, and implementing the necessary policies, has gained increasing attention in recent years. Arguably, the transition process is tightly interwoven with political processes that include complex interactions between societal stakeholders, such as households and firms, on the one hand, and political decision makers, on the other. Accordingly, understanding political-economy aspects of the transition process, including distributional outcomes, is becoming increasingly relevant. While a growing literature discusses the distributional implications of climate policy on households, it is less well understood how asset owners might be affected by climate policy and how these potential impacts would interact with the transition process. This Special Section focuses on public policy challenges related to this transition problem, with special emphasis on asset owners. A core theme is the special role of stranded assets, i.e. a devaluation of capital stocks or financial assets either by introducing a stringent carbon price or by omitting a pre-announced policy of this kind. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102300 SN - 0095-0696 SN - 1096-0449 VL - 100 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Wenz, Leonie T1 - The impact of climate conditions on economic production BT - evidence from a global panel of regions JF - Journal of Environmental Economics and Management N2 - We present a novel data set of subnational economic output, Gross Regional Product (GRP), for more than 1500 regions in 77 countries that allows us to empirically estimate historic climate impacts at different time scales. Employing annual panel models, long-difference regressions and cross-sectional regressions, we identify effects on productivity levels and productivity growth. We do not find evidence for permanent growth rate impacts but we find robust evidence that temperature affects productivity levels considerably. An increase in global mean surface temperature by about 3.5°C until the end of the century would reduce global output by 7–14% in 2100, with even higher damages in tropical and poor regions. Updating the DICE damage function with our estimates suggests that the social cost of carbon from temperature-induced productivity losses is on the order of 73–142$/tCO2 in 2020, rising to 92–181$/tCO2 in 2030. These numbers exclude non-market damages and damages from extreme weather events or sea-level rise. KW - climate change KW - climate damages KW - climate impacts KW - growth regression KW - global warming KW - panel regression KW - cross-sectional regression KW - damage KW - function KW - social costs of carbon Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2020.102360 SN - 0095-0696 SN - 1096-0449 VL - 103 PB - Elsevier CY - San Diego ER -