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A different look at Lenin's legacy : trust, risk, fairness and cooperativeness in the two Germanies
Heineck, Guido; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be … interpreted as evidence for the passing of cultural traits across generations and for cooperation being sustained by values rather …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697515
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Induced civic pride and integration
Süßmuth, Bernd; Heyne, Malte; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2009
methods, we use the FIFA World Cup 2006 as a natural experiment. The significant ex-post increase in valuation is shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818015
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Don't raise the retirement age! : an experiment on opposition to pension reforms and East-West differences in Germany
Scheubel, Beatrice; Schunk, Daniel; Winter, Joachim - 2009
to age 67. By introducing an experiment into a representative household survey, we are able to disentangle expectations … appears to strongly affect responses from East German households. -- retirement ; health ; work ability ; survey experiment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872791
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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697044
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From politics to the family : how sex-role attitudes keep on diverging in reunified Germany
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2010
experiment to address this question. During the divided years, East German institutions encouraged high levels of full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938702
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Tax morale after the reunification of Germany : results from a quasi-natural experiment
Feld, Lars P. (contributor); Torgler, Benno (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003495768
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Apprenticeship, vocational training and early labor market outcomes : in East and West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zibrowius, Michael - 2015
We study the returns to apprenticeship and vocational training for three early labor market outcomes all measured at age 25 for East and West German youths: non-employment (i.e., unemployment or out of the labor force), permanent fulltime employment, and wages. We find strong positive effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496141
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Inequality and the state : comparing U.S. and German preferences
Corneo, Giacomo - 2000
Survey data from the United States, West Germany and East Germany are analyzed to compare individual attitudes towards political redistribution in each country. In West Germany the homo oeconomicus effect , the social rivalry effect and the public values effect simultaneously retain an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009780207
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Large losses from little lies : randomly assigned opportunity to misrepresent substantially lowers later cooperation and worsens income inequality
Drouvelis, Michalis; Gerson, Jennifer; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2020
cooperation? This paper investigates the possibility that a small deceptive act of misrepresenting some information about one … cooperation level by approximately 12-13 percentage points. Not only that the average catfisher was substantially more likely to …-term opportunities to misrepresent one’s identity to others can potentially be extremely harmful to later human cooperation and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288025
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A theory of reciprocity
Falk, Armin; Fischbacher, Urs - 2001
This paper presents a formal theory of reciprocity. Reciprocity means that people reward kind actions and punish unkind ones. The theory takes into account that people evaluate the kindness of an action not only by its consequences but also by the intention underlying this action. The theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011398368