Sabrina Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 303502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sabrina Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sabrina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0864-7795 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tailored information and the public support for carbon pricing in Germany
Providing information about carbon pricing is widely considered to be key to increasing public support for it. A number of studies have analyzed such effects, but little attention has been paid to how changes to the design can enhance the effectiveness of information treatments. Typically, generic information with low affective appeal has been used. In contrast, this paper, drawing on recent research into the design of information provisions, emp…
How resilient is public support for carbon pricing? Longitudinal evidence from Germany
The success of climate policies depends crucially on the dynamics of public support. Using unique longitudinal data from three surveys conducted between 2019 and 2022, we study the variations of public support for carbon pricing and revenue use in Germany. Using panel methods, we show that support is very persistent over time. However, people who incur high energy cost decrease their support. Regarding revenue use, we find that social cushioning …
Prädiktoren der persönlichen Verpflichtung in Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen im Erwachsenenalter
In der Eltern-Kind-Beziehung spielen innerfamiliäre Erwartungen und Verpflichtungen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Beziehungsgestaltung und der Entwicklung gegenseitiger Verhaltenserwartungen über die Lebensspanne. Verpflichtungen innerhalb von Familienbeziehungen werden als persönliche Verpflichtung (felt obligation) beschrieben, definiert als Erwartung angemessenen Verhaltens, die durch Merkmale der Beziehung zu den Eltern geprägt ist. Mithilfe ei…
Attitudes toward water conservation
Based on randomized information treatments that were embedded in a large survey among more than 6000 single-family homeowners from Germany, we investigate the malleability of attitudes toward water conservation and a variety of conservation policies. The empirical results indicate that respondents generally have a positive attitude toward water conservation. Information treatments that included balanced or negatively biased information about the …
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements
Spatial distributive justice has many faces
Infrastructures for using renewable energy sources (RES) produce local benefits and burdens for communities in their vicinity. The spatial distribution of these local benefits and burdens is typically heterogeneous, which frequently raises concerns of spatial distributive justice. In this paper, we first develop an analytical framework to synthesize the literature in this field. Our framework highlights that approaches to spatial distributive jus…
Green SÖP Extended
The proliferation of instruments targeted at combatting climate change necessitates evidence-based evaluation to identify strategies that are not only effective and cost-efficient, but also supported by the population. In Germany, the data needed to support such analysis is scarce, however. A rare exception is Green SÖP, a panel data set that was established within the project Eval-MAP funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF…
Local support of climate change policies in Germany over time
Political conflicts about energy and climate change policies often have local implications, yet little is known about local public opinion towards these policies. Here, we estimate support towards 26 climate change mitigation policies for 402 German counties and for up to four points of time using multilevel regression and poststratification. We find that local support for climate policies varies by up to 60 percentage points across German counti…
The stability of personal traits and preferences in times of the Corona pandemic
Based on panel data on around 5500 German households, this article analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to the Corona pandemic has affected three kinds of personal traits and preferences: the willingness to take risks, patience, and the locus of control (LOC). Our empirical results indicate that patience and the LOC remain unchanged by the experience of pandemic‐related financial losses, whereas we find a negative effect of sev…
Intergenerational Value Similarity and Subjective Well-Being
This investigation concentrates on the association of intergenerational value similarity and adult children's and parents' subjective well-being, on the linkage between relationship quality and subjective well-being. Mediation effects of the relationship quality on the associations between value similarity and subjective well-being were focused. The sample consisted of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents. Dyadic correlations…
The Social Sustainability Barometer 2017–2019
A large majority of citizens supports the German transition toward clean energy production (Energiewende). Yet, the Energiewende involves a large suite of aspects that determine the support. The social sustainability barometer provides a comprehensive data base on a large variety of questions related to the Energiewende that was collected in three survey waves spanning from 2017 to 2019 among more than 6000 household heads
Supporting carbon taxes
Green-SÖP
Evaluating environmental questions is a crucial issue in today’s economic research and policy making. The Green-SÖP offers a comprehensive data base to enrich an empirically led scientific discourse as a survey data set on environmental and energy-related topics in Germany. The data set on more than 6000 households was collected by RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and partners between 2012 and 2016. The questions are very diverse and…
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings
Given the gaps between EU ambitions regarding energy community development and the current reality of clean energy communities in Europe, we explore a research framework enabling viable multi- and interdisciplinary research into new clean energy communities. We offer a definition of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and …
Determining the efficiency of residential electricity consumption
Increasing energy efficiency is a key global policy goal for climate protection. An important step toward an optimal reduction of energy consumption is the identification of energy saving potentials in different sectors and the best strategies for increasing efficiency. This paper analyzes these potentials in the household sector by estimating the degree of inefficiency in the use of electricity and its determinants. Using stochastic frontier ana…
Do more chargers mean more electric cars
To reverse the trend of rising CO 2 emissions in the European Union’s (EU) transportation sector, several European governments have introduced programs that promote electric vehicles (EVs). One frequently cited impediment to their uptake is insufficient charging infrastructure. Drawing on panel data from Germany, this paper estimates the relationship between public charging infrastructure and the uptake of EVs. We specify models with fixed effect…
Reducing vehicle cold start emissions through carbon pricing
A large proportion of local pollutants originating from the road transport sector is generated during the so-called cold-start phase of driving, that is, the first few minutes of driving after a car has stood inactive for several hours. Drawing on data from the German Mobility Panel (MOP), this paper analyzes the factors that affect the frequency of cold starts, approximated here by the number of car tours that a household takes over the course o…
Intergenerational Value Similarity in Adulthood
This investigation concentrates on value similarity between parents and their children during adulthood. The interplay between gender, age, relationship quality, and frequency of contact on value similarity was analyzed. A total of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents took part in a questionnaire study. Value orientation was measured with a short version of Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire, and relationship quality wi…
Climate Change, Population Ageing and Public Spending
Risk Perception of Climate Change
Intergenerational Value Similarity in Adulthood
This investigation concentrates on value similarity between parents and their children during adulthood. The interplay between gender, age, relationship quality, and frequency of contact on value similarity was analyzed. A total of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents took part in a questionnaire study. Value orientation was measured with a short version of Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire, and relationship quality wi…
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements
Risk Perception of Climate Change
Climate Change, Population Ageing and Public Spending
Green-SÖP
Evaluating environmental questions is a crucial issue in today’s economic research and policy making. The Green-SÖP offers a comprehensive data base to enrich an empirically led scientific discourse as a survey data set on environmental and energy-related topics in Germany. The data set on more than 6000 households was collected by RWI – Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and partners between 2012 and 2016. The questions are very diverse and…
New clean energy communities in polycentric settings
Given the gaps between EU ambitions regarding energy community development and the current reality of clean energy communities in Europe, we explore a research framework enabling viable multi- and interdisciplinary research into new clean energy communities. We offer a definition of new clean energy communities, discuss their potential for wider dissemination and identify four factors that contribute to the current mismatch between ambitions and …
Determining the efficiency of residential electricity consumption
Increasing energy efficiency is a key global policy goal for climate protection. An important step toward an optimal reduction of energy consumption is the identification of energy saving potentials in different sectors and the best strategies for increasing efficiency. This paper analyzes these potentials in the household sector by estimating the degree of inefficiency in the use of electricity and its determinants. Using stochastic frontier ana…
Do more chargers mean more electric cars
To reverse the trend of rising CO 2 emissions in the European Union’s (EU) transportation sector, several European governments have introduced programs that promote electric vehicles (EVs). One frequently cited impediment to their uptake is insufficient charging infrastructure. Drawing on panel data from Germany, this paper estimates the relationship between public charging infrastructure and the uptake of EVs. We specify models with fixed effect…
Reducing vehicle cold start emissions through carbon pricing
A large proportion of local pollutants originating from the road transport sector is generated during the so-called cold-start phase of driving, that is, the first few minutes of driving after a car has stood inactive for several hours. Drawing on data from the German Mobility Panel (MOP), this paper analyzes the factors that affect the frequency of cold starts, approximated here by the number of car tours that a household takes over the course o…
Intergenerational Value Similarity in Adulthood
This investigation concentrates on value similarity between parents and their children during adulthood. The interplay between gender, age, relationship quality, and frequency of contact on value similarity was analyzed. A total of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents took part in a questionnaire study. Value orientation was measured with a short version of Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire, and relationship quality wi…
The Social Sustainability Barometer 2017–2019
A large majority of citizens supports the German transition toward clean energy production (Energiewende). Yet, the Energiewende involves a large suite of aspects that determine the support. The social sustainability barometer provides a comprehensive data base on a large variety of questions related to the Energiewende that was collected in three survey waves spanning from 2017 to 2019 among more than 6000 household heads
Supporting carbon taxes
Green SÖP Extended
The proliferation of instruments targeted at combatting climate change necessitates evidence-based evaluation to identify strategies that are not only effective and cost-efficient, but also supported by the population. In Germany, the data needed to support such analysis is scarce, however. A rare exception is Green SÖP, a panel data set that was established within the project Eval-MAP funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF…
Local support of climate change policies in Germany over time
Political conflicts about energy and climate change policies often have local implications, yet little is known about local public opinion towards these policies. Here, we estimate support towards 26 climate change mitigation policies for 402 German counties and for up to four points of time using multilevel regression and poststratification. We find that local support for climate policies varies by up to 60 percentage points across German counti…
The stability of personal traits and preferences in times of the Corona pandemic
Based on panel data on around 5500 German households, this article analyzes whether the experience of financial losses due to the Corona pandemic has affected three kinds of personal traits and preferences: the willingness to take risks, patience, and the locus of control (LOC). Our empirical results indicate that patience and the LOC remain unchanged by the experience of pandemic‐related financial losses, whereas we find a negative effect of sev…
Intergenerational Value Similarity and Subjective Well-Being
This investigation concentrates on the association of intergenerational value similarity and adult children's and parents' subjective well-being, on the linkage between relationship quality and subjective well-being. Mediation effects of the relationship quality on the associations between value similarity and subjective well-being were focused. The sample consisted of 600 adult German children (53.8% women) and their parents. Dyadic correlations…
Spatial distributive justice has many faces
Infrastructures for using renewable energy sources (RES) produce local benefits and burdens for communities in their vicinity. The spatial distribution of these local benefits and burdens is typically heterogeneous, which frequently raises concerns of spatial distributive justice. In this paper, we first develop an analytical framework to synthesize the literature in this field. Our framework highlights that approaches to spatial distributive jus…
Attitudes toward water conservation
Based on randomized information treatments that were embedded in a large survey among more than 6000 single-family homeowners from Germany, we investigate the malleability of attitudes toward water conservation and a variety of conservation policies. The empirical results indicate that respondents generally have a positive attitude toward water conservation. Information treatments that included balanced or negatively biased information about the …
Pro-environmental behavior and environmentalist movements
Tailored information and the public support for carbon pricing in Germany
Providing information about carbon pricing is widely considered to be key to increasing public support for it. A number of studies have analyzed such effects, but little attention has been paid to how changes to the design can enhance the effectiveness of information treatments. Typically, generic information with low affective appeal has been used. In contrast, this paper, drawing on recent research into the design of information provisions, emp…
How resilient is public support for carbon pricing? Longitudinal evidence from Germany
The success of climate policies depends crucially on the dynamics of public support. Using unique longitudinal data from three surveys conducted between 2019 and 2022, we study the variations of public support for carbon pricing and revenue use in Germany. Using panel methods, we show that support is very persistent over time. However, people who incur high energy cost decrease their support. Regarding revenue use, we find that social cushioning …
Prädiktoren der persönlichen Verpflichtung in Eltern-Kind-Beziehungen im Erwachsenenalter
In der Eltern-Kind-Beziehung spielen innerfamiliäre Erwartungen und Verpflichtungen eine wichtige Rolle bei der Beziehungsgestaltung und der Entwicklung gegenseitiger Verhaltenserwartungen über die Lebensspanne. Verpflichtungen innerhalb von Familienbeziehungen werden als persönliche Verpflichtung (felt obligation) beschrieben, definiert als Erwartung angemessenen Verhaltens, die durch Merkmale der Beziehung zu den Eltern geprägt ist. Mithilfe ei…
Economics (13 works) · Geography (8 works) · German (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sustainability and Climate Change Governance (7 works) · Climate change (6 works) · Econometrics (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (5 works) · Environmental economics (5 works)