across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

across jurisdictions. In parallel surveys with German citizens and state parliamentarians, we document that both groups … educational performance information may incentivize politicians to implement welfare-enhancing reforms. …

behavioral experiment, we elicit German legislators’ social welfare criteria unconfounded by political economy constraints. When … resolving preference conflicts across individuals, politicians place substantially more importance on least-favored than on most …” which insists that choices merit intervention only if the lure of immediacy may bias intertemporal choice. Politicians’ and …

Using data from a unique survey of members of parliaments in France, Germany and Italy in 2018, we estimate the effects … of three dimensions on EU and euro area fiscal reform preferences: nationality, political ideology, and populism. We … predict and confirm that a German populist party on the right is most opposed to a more developed European fiscal union, while …

We study how connections to German federal parliamentarians affect firm dynamics by constructing a novel dataset to … measure connections between politicians and the universe of firms. To identify the causal effect of access to political power …

, likely harming people in midlife more than at the start of their working lives. Using over twenty years of the German Socio …

, disentangling the effect of the accent from that of omitted variables. We collected data on workers' speech in Germany, a country …