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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19 : Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina K. - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831658
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Social Capital and the Spread of Covid-19: Insights from European Countries
Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Sieglich, … - 2020
, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227686
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Do Immigrants Affect Crime? Evidence from Panel Data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German … administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no … positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime rate. We assess the robustness of this result by considering the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867015
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Supermajorities and Political Rent Extraction
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015
Models of political competition portray political candidates as seeking the support of the median voter to win elections by majority voting. In practice, political candidates seek supermajorities rather than majorities based on support of the median voter. We study the political benefits from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388195
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Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?
Fischer, Mira; Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2015
We investigate whether the field of study influences university students’ political attitudes. To disentangle self-selection from learning effects, we first investigate whether the fields of study chosen by the incoming students correlate with their political attitudes. In a second step we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388219
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External Influence as an Indicator of Scholarly Importance
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Schaffner, … - 2013
The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323015
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Does the John Bates Clark Medal Boost Subsequent Productivity and Citation Success?
Chan, Ho Fai; Frey, Bruno S.; Gallus, Jana; Torgler, Benno - 2013
Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This paper investigates whether a specific, yet important, award in economics, the John Bates Clark Medal, raises recipients' subsequent research activity and status compared to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323024
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Commitment to Pay Taxes: A Field Experiment on the Importance of Promise
Koessler, Ann-Kathrin; Torgler, Benno; Feld, Lars P.; … - 2016
The ability of a tax authority to successfully collect taxes depends critically on both its relationship with the taxpayers and how strongly these taxpayers are committed to contributing to the common good. We present evidence on a new non-intrusive approach aimed at fostering the commitment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584885
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Dimensions of Donation Preferences: The Structure of Peer and Income Effects
Drouvelis, Michalis; Marx, Benjamin M. - 2019
. Estimation of the model reveals substantial heterogeneity in subjects’ adherence to the norm and perceptions of its form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018187
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Comfort and Conformity: A Culture-based Theory of Migration
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2018
This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to value comfort (high wages) and conformity (interactions with individuals who share similar world views). Regions are assumed to differ economically (average wages) and culturally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932044