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We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about her individual characteristics. In panel data, the...
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when a decision is complex, they implicitly treat different time delays to some degree alike. By experimentally measuring … when the decision environment is more complex. Third, cognitive uncertainty matters for choice architecture: people who are …
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lifestyle taxes may exist. In general, the First Best sin tax cannot be levied if Governments are also interested in corporate … harder to impose significant lifestyle taxes. We also provide some insights about the effects that the international effort … to fight profit shifting may have on lifestyle taxes. …
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crucial. Representative opinion polls, often involving simplified questions about the complex topics under debate, are an … ; public opinion poll ; PAYG pension system ; East Germany …
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We construct a panel of satisfaction with democracy (SWD) and economic, institutional, and environmental variables for 1990-2001 for fifteen European countries. In this sample, controlling for a number of factors, we find that average SWD is higher where (1) there exists an energy / CO2 tax,...
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This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...
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