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Right-Wing Extremism and the Well-Being of Immigrants
Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen; Thomsen, Stephan L. - CESifo - 2009
show that the life satisfaction of immigrants is significantly reduced if right-wing extremism in the native population … increases. Moreover, the life satisfaction of highly educated immigrants is affected more strongly than that of low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533995
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Subjective Well-Being, Income, Economic Development and Growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - CESifo - 2010
most countries around the world. Turning to the relationship between countries, we show that average life satisfaction is … higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …-being. Finally, studying changes in satisfaction over time, we find that as countries experience economic growth, their citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671708
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Optimal Income Taxation and Public Goods Provision in a Large Economy with Aggregate Uncertainty
Bierbrauer, Felix - CESifo - 2009
We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences. Moreover, there is aggregate uncertainty so that the social benefits from taxation and public goods provision are a priori unknown. The analysis is based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013044
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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2008
This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406217
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Sustainability and Discounted Utilitarianism in Models of Economic Growth
Asheim, Geir B.; Mitra, Tapan - CESifo - 2009
Discounted utilitarianism treats generations unequally and leads to seemingly unappealing consequences in some models of economic growth. Instead, this paper presents and applies sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU). SDU respects the interests of future generations and resolves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181313
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The Invisible Hand Plays Dice: Eventualities in Religious Markets
Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2004
, as secular societies tend to host on average more demanding sects. Our main methodological contribution to the theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181566
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Surviving the Titanic Disaster: Economic, Natural and Social Determinants
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - CESifo - 2009
The sinking of the Titanic in April 1912 took the lives of 68 percent of the people aboard. Who survived? It was women and children who had a higher probability of being saved, not men. Likewise, people traveling in first class had a better chance of survival than those in second and third...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196272
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Identification of Voters with Interest Groups Improves the Electoral Chances of the Challenger
Sadiraj, Vjollca; Tuinstra, Jan; Winden, Frans Van - CESifo - 2010
Interest groups are introduced in a spatial model of electoral competition between two political parties. We show that, by coordinating voting behavior, these interest groups increase the winning set, which is defined as the set of policy platforms for the challenger that will defeat the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596579
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On a Three-Alternative Condorcet Jury Theorem
Goertz, Johanna; Maniquet, Francois - CESifo - 2011
We investigate whether the simple plurality rule aggregates information efficiently in a large election with three alternatives. The environment is the same as in the Condorcet Jury Theorem (Condorcet (1785)). Voters have common preferences that depend on the unknown state of nature, and they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021241
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth; Danziger, Leif - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009150636