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District Magnitude and Representation of the Majority?s Preferences: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Popular and Parliamentary Votes

Portmann, Marco; Stadelmann, David; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010

Members of parliament have more effective incentives to cater for the majority?s preferences when they are elected in districts with few seats in parliament rather than in districts with many seats. We empirically investigate this hypothesis by matching voting behavior on legislative proposals...

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Sanfter Paternalismus, meritorische Güter, und der normative Individualismus

KirchgÄssner, Gebhard - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2012

Paternalism is an attempt to influence the decisions of individuals for their own benefit even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to be a contradiction to normative individualism which provides the general or ientation of our modern demo cracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism...

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Impact Evaluation of an Incentive Program on Educational Achievement of Indigenous Students

Dulleck, Uwe; Silva-Goncalves, Juliana; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014

This article introduces the Fogs Artie program that attempts to close the gap in educational attainment between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, and provides an evaluation of its effectiveness. The program is of special interest as it uses in-kind incentives conditional on achievement...

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Participation in Environmental Organizations: Political Interest and State Capacity

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

The literature on volunteering has strongly increased in the last few years. However, there is still a lack of substantial empirical evidence about the determinants of environmental participation. This empirical study analyses a cross-section of individuals using micro-data of the World Values...

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Income Equality, School Performance and Educational Mobility

Bauer, Philipp C.; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2011

Is income equality a precondition for higher school performance and higher educational mobility? Or is the opposite … true? We test empirically whether school performance and intergenerational transmission of educational attainment is … municipalities. Our results point to a beneficial effect of income inequality on school performance for children with middle educated …

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The Willingness to Pay for Preventing Environmental Damage

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valiñas, Maria A. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2005

Since the 70s, an increasing number of studies investigating environmental preferences have been made. However, papers related to a country and its regions or its development over time are still largely lacking, although it is a promising line to search empirically for factors that have been...

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Participation in Environmental Organizations: An Empirical Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Garcia-Valinas, Maria A. - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006

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Spatial Spillovers in Metropolitan Areas: Evidence from Swiss Communes

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Zemp, Simon - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2003

This paper investigates spatial spillovers in local spending decisions by using panel data of the Swiss communes in the canton of Lucerne during the 1990s. Due to the geographical fragmentation with a major central city and some 100 suburban communes within a distance from 4 to 55 kilometers to...

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On Government Centralization and Fiscal Referendums: A Theoretical Model and Evidence from Switzerland

Feld, Lars P.; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Schnellenbach, Jan - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2005

representative democracy, centralization is ineffi-ciently high because representatives can extract political rents by policy …

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Military careers of politicians matter for national security policy

Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco; Eichenberger, Reiner - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2014

Do politicians with a military background decide differently on military affairs? We investigate the informative institutional setting of the Swiss conscription army. Politicians who served in the military have a higher probability of accepting pro-military legislative proposals, even when...

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