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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

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Chancen auf einen höheren Wachstumspfad

2000

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Relative price changes of ecosystem services : evidence from Germany

Heckenhahn, Jonas; Drupp, Moritz A. - 2022

Discounting future costs and benefits is a crucial yet contentious practice in the appraisal of long-term public projects with environmental consequences. The standard approach typically neglects that ecosystem services are not easily substitutable with manufactured goods and often exhibit...

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Does federalism affect e-government in Germany?

Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Steinhoff, Peter - 2023

International comparisons show that the reasons why e-government development in Germany does not occupy the desired "top spot" in rankings lie primarily in the inadequate provision of online services with little corresponding user orientation. In order to provide better and faster public...

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Democratic participation and the size of regions : an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

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Financing democracy

Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2002

Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that democracies should use a mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding for parties can be reduced without expecting undesirable effects...

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later …

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