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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

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Joblessness and perceptions about the effectiveness of democracy

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci - 2010

Using micro data on more than 130,000 individuals from 69 countries, we analyze the extent to which joblessness of the individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that personal joblessness experience translates...

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Is there such thing as middle class values? : class differences, values and political orientations in Latin America

López-Calva, Luis F.; Rigolini, Jamele; Torche, Florencia - 2012

Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...

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Hard times, hard attitudes? : the effect of economic downturns on gender norms

Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2024

This paper examines the impact of economic fluctuations on social norms, specifically exploring the link between changes in unemployment and shifts in attitudes toward gender roles in the labor market. The results are not immediately obvious, as the literature suggests several potential...

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Recession experiences during early adulthood shape prosocial attitudes later in life

Bietenbeck, Jan; Sunde, Uwe; Thiemann, Petra - 2023

This paper explores whether the experience of a severe recession during early adulthood shapes individuals' prosocial attitudes. The analysis uses survey responses to experimentally validated questions that measure prosocial attitudes for approximately 65,000 respondents in 75 countries. The...

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Incentives, search engines, and the elicitation of subjective beliefs : evidence from representative online survey experiments

Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2019

A large literature studies subjective beliefs about economic facts using unincentivized survey questions. We devise randomized experiments in a representative online survey to investigate whether incentivizing belief accuracy affects stated beliefs about average earnings by professional degree...

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Public opinion on immigration in Europe : preference versus salience

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the … of public opinion move differently over time and in response to different macro-level variables. The results suggest that … both dimensions need to be taken into account when assessing the overall climate of public opinion towards immigration …

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The effect of private health insurance on medical care utilization and self-assessed health in Germany

Hullegie, Patrick; Klein, Tobias J. - 2010

In Germany, employees are generally obliged to participate in the public health insurance system, where coverage is universal, co-payments and deductibles are moderate, and premia are based on income. However, they may buy private insurance instead if their income exceeds the compulsory...

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Reveal it or conceal it: on the value of second opinions in a low-entry-barriers credence goods market

Bindra, Parampreet Christopher; Kerschbamer, Rudolf; … - 2020

field experiment in the market for computer repairs. We find that revealing a second opinion from another expert to the … conditions gathering a second opinion can be valuable. …

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Hedonic estimation under very general conditions using experimental and quasi-experimental designs

Rohlfs, Chris; Sullivan, Ryan; Kniesner, Thomas J. - 2013

This paper develops a generalized hedonic model in which an exogenous shock to a single product attribute can affect other attributes, the markets for the product's complements and substitutes, and aggregate quantity produced. These factors are shown to be empirically relevant and to cause bias...

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