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State-owned enterprises, fiscal transparency, and the circumvention of fiscal rules : the case of Germany
Heinemann, Friedrich; Nover, Justus - 2023
State-owned enterprises (SOEs) provide opportunities for a more flexible and market-based provision of public services. At the same time, they may impair fiscal transparency and offer politicians discretion in the presence of strict fiscal rules if these only constrain the core udget. Using a...
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Are the supporters of socialism the losers of capitalism? : conformism in East Germany and transition success
Deter, Max; Lange, Martin - 2022
The empirical literature is inconclusive about whether a country’s democratization has a long-lasting impact on former supporters or opponents of the bygone regime. With newly available individual-level data of former residents of the socialist German Democratic Republic (GDR), we analyze how...
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The generation gap in direct democracy
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Mueller, Steffen Q. - 2018
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Temps dip deeper : temporary employment and the midlife nadir in human well-being
Piper, Alan T. - 2020
well-being. In parallel, much research has shown that the relationship between age and well-being traces an approximate U …-economic panel (SOEP), this investigation considers the relationship between temporary employment, age and well-being. In doing so … oft-found U-shaped relationship between age and well-being. The results show that temporary employment deepens the U …
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Age, intentions and the implicit role of out-selection factors of international migration
Beine, Michel - 2020
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The (in)elasticity of moral ignorance
Serra-Garcia, Marta; Szech, Nora - 2019
We investigate the elasticity of moral ignorance with respect to monetary incentives and social norm information. We propose that individuals suffer from higher moral costs when rejecting a certain donation, and thus pay for moral ignorance. Consistent with our model, we find significant...
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Seasonal scarcity and sharing norms
Bartoš, Vojtěch - 2018
How does scarcity affect individual willingness to share and willingness to enforce sharing from others? Sharing in poor communities gains importance as an insurance mechanism during adverse shocks, yet shocks make it costlier to share. I conducted repeated economic experiments in both a lean...
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Neighbors, knowledge, and nuggets : two natural field experiments on the role of incentives on energy conservation
Dolan, Paul; Metcalfe, Robert M. - 2013
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Breaking the silence : group discussions, and the adoption of welfare-improving technologies
Castro, Silvia; Mang, Clarissa - 2023
Social pressure and stigma can hinder the adoption of available technologies, especially in the context of sensitive health issues. We run a field experiment on the take-up of menstrual products in Bangladesh and test a discussion-based intervention in a work setting. We vary participation in...
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Social norms and market behavior : evidence from a large population sample
Riehm, Tobias; Fugger, Nicolas; Gillen, Philippe; … - 2021
We test the importance of social norms for market interactions associated with negative real-world externalities in a large-scale experiment with a heterogeneous population sample from Germany. The majority of experimental participants refuses to trade, thus behaving in a moral way. Our data...
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