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Dr. Timm Bönke
Post-doc
Boltzmannstraße 20
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Room
305
14195
Berlin
Phone:
+ 49 30 838 53331
Fax:
+ 49 30 838 52560
E-mail: timm.boenke@fu-berlin.de
Office hours:
by appointmentFields of interest:
- Microsimulation
- Income and wealth distributions
- Tax-benefit systems
Education:
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11/2010 |
Dissertation in Economics, FU Berlin. Thesis: Essays on Income Inequality, Poverty and Mobility. |
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10/2005 |
Diplom in Economics (eq. Master in Economics). |
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2001-2005 |
Studies in economics at Freie Universität Berlin. |
Refereed publications:
- Can households and welfare states mitigate rising earnings instability? (with C. Bartels), Review of Income and Wealth (early view). [former title: German male income volatility 1984 to 2008: Trends in permanent and transitory income components and the role of the welfare state]
- Charitable Giving in the German Welfare State: Fiscal Incentives and Crowding Out (with N. Massarrat-Mashhadi and C. Sielaff), Public Choice (online first).
- Zur Entwicklung der Einkommensverteilung unter älteren Menschen in Deutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung (with C. Schröder and K. Schulte), Vierteljahreshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung - Quarterly Journal of Economic Research 80/2 (2011), 81 - 99.
- Poverty in Germany - statistical inference and decomposition (with C. Schröder), Journal of Economics and Statistics - Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 231/2 (2011), 178 - 209.
- Horizontal equity in the German tax-benefit system: A simulation approach for employees (with S. Eichfelder), FinanzArchiv - Public Finance Analysis 66 (2010), 295-331.
- Incomes and inequality in the long run: the case of German elderly (with C. Schröder and K. Schulte), German Economic Review 11 (2010), 487-510.
- Bestimmung ökonomischer Einkommen und effektiver Einkommensteuerbelastungen mit der Faktisch Anonymisierten Lohn- und Einkommensteuerstatistik (with F. Neher and C. Schröder), Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 127 (2007), 585-623.
- Was hätte man sonst machen können? Alternativszenarien zur Rot-Grünen Steuerreform (with G. Corneo), Schmollers Jahrbuch - Journal of Applied Social Science Studies 126 (2006), 489-519.
Contributions to edited volumes:
- Ungleichheitsdynamik in Deutschland: permanente Divergenz oder transitorische Fluktuation? (with M. Giesecke and H. Lüthen), in Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (eds.): DRV-Schriften Band 55/2010, 177 - 193.
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Lebenseinkommensungleichheit westdeutscher Männer: Ergebnisse auf Basis deutscher Sozialversicherungsdaten für die Jahrgänge 1938-1944 (with G. Corneo and H. Lüthen), in Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (eds.): DRV-Schriften Band 55/2010, 232 - 249.
- Die Funktionsweise des bundesdeutschen Finanzausgleichs und seine ökonomischen Anreizeffekte auf Länderebene (with B. Joachimsen and C. Schröder), in Christiana Albertina Band 70/2010, 6 - 17.
- Gekappte Einkommen in prozessgenerierten Daten der Deutschen Rentenversicherung - Ein paretobasierter Imputationsansatz, in Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (ed.): DRV-Schriften Band 55/2009, 214 - 230.
Recent discussion papers:
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Lifetime Earnings Inequality in Germany (with G. Corneo and H. Lüthen), CEPR Discussion Paper no. 8929. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research.
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Fiscal equalization and regions’ (un)willingness-to-tax – evidence from Germany (with B. Jochimsen and C. Schröder), Economics Working Paper, Department of Economics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, No. 2011/06.
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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes (with C. Schröder), Discussion Paper, DIW Berlin, No. 1068/2010 [former title: Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation].
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Compiling a Harmonized Database from Germany's 1978 to 2003 Sample Surveys of Income and Expenditure (with C. Schröder and C. Werdt), Economics Discussion Paper, School of Business & Economics, FU Berlin, No. 2010/4.
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Horizontale Gleichheit im Abgaben-Transfersystem: eine Analyse äquivalenter Einkommen von Arbeitnehmern in Deutschland (with S. Eichfelder), Arbeitskreis quantitative Steuerlehre, Diskussionsbeitrag 36/2008.
Refereeing:
German Economic Review; International Review of Economics; Journal of Applied Social Science Studies; Journal of Economics and Statistics; Journal of Economic Inequality; Journal of Income Distribution
Memberships:
Econometric Society; European Economic Association (EEA); International Institute of Public Finance (IIPF); Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ)
