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Tullock Challenges : Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical “Tullock Challenges." The first relates to method: The measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - 2021

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Does Female Suffrage Increase Public Support for Government Spending? Evidence from Swiss Ballots

Jaronicki, Katharina - 2013

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...

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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...

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Media, Fake News, and Debunking

Van Long, Ngo - 2018

We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for one provider or the other and value real news. However,...

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Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2017

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...

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Do Permit Allocations Matter?

Verbon, Harrie A. A. - 2010

of the system, under various institutional arrangements, through the initial allocation of permits …

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Rogue Aid? The Determinants of China's Aid Allocation

Dreher, Axel - 2011

allocation decisions. We estimate the determinants of China's allocation of project aid, food aid, medical teams and total aid … money to developing countries, comparing its allocation decisions with traditional and other so-called emerging donors. We … find that political considerations are an important determinant of China's allocation of aid. However, in comparison to …

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Partial Coercion, Conditional Cooperation, and Self-Commitment in Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods

Cettolin, Elena - 2011

In this paper we experimentally investigate whether partial coercion can in combination with conditional cooperation increase contributions to a public good. We are especially interested in the behavior of the non-coerced populations. The main finding is that in our setting conditional...

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Collective versus Decentralized Wage Bargaining and the Efficient Allocation of Resources

Cai, Xiaoming - 2015

disadvantage is that it takes more time before an optimal allocation is reached because more productive firms (for a particular …

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