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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008462037
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161436
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903998
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536937
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835205
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673528
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673535
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Corruption and Social Interaction: Evidence from China
Dong, Bin; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2010
We explore theoretically and empirically whether social interaction, including local and global interaction, influences the incidence of corruption. We first present an interaction-based model on corruption that predicts that the level of corruption is positively associated with social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008740319
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Energy Regulation, Roll Call Votes and Regional Resources: Evidence from Russia
Grigoriadis, Theocharis N.; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2006
This paper investigates the relative impact of regional energy production on the legislative choices of Russian Duma deputies on energy regulation between 1994 and 2003. We apply Poole?s optimal classification method of roll call votes using an ordered probit model to explain energy law reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808594
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Conditional Corruption
Dong, Bin; Dulleck, Uwe; Torgler, Benno - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2008
We argue that the decision to bribe bureaucrats depends on the frequency of corruption within a society. We provide a behavioral model to explain this conduct: engaging in corruption results in a disutility of guilt. This implies that people observe a lower probability to be involved in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005808595