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Television, Health, and Happiness : A Natural Experiment in West Germany
Chadi, Adrian; Hoffmann, Manuel - 2022
experiment in West Germany, where people in geographically restricted areas received commercial TV via terrestrial frequencies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087377
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The Politicians' Wage Gap : Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas - 2011
, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting …-60% compared to citizens with an executive position. Hence, we show that the widely held claim that politicians would earn more in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129100
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
Becker, Johannes - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework …, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings … that politicians facing low competition have substantially higher outside earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768170
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Inequality Perceptions, Distributional Norms, and Redistributive Preferences in East and West Germany
Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
East and West Germany. As expected, there are substantial differences with respect to all three of these measures … or redistributive preferences. Nonetheless, individuals from East Germany tend to be more supportive of state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128215
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A Different Look at Lenin's Legacy : Trust, Risk, Fairness and Cooperativeness in the Two Germanies
Heineck, Guido - 2010
question, we use the reunification of Germany as a natural experiment and study the post-reunification trajectory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137530
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Women in Political Bodies as Policymakers
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023
We investigate how female representation impacts policymaking using the example of child care and new hand-collected data on local council elections in Bavaria. RDD estimations (mixed-gender races for last party-specific council seats) show that an additional female councilor accelerates the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260150
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Who Will Be Idol? The Importance of Social Networks for Winning on Reality Shows
Heizler-Cohen, Odelia - 2010
This paper examines, both theoretically and empirically, the effect of social networks and belonging to minority groups (or race) on the probability of winning in reality television shows. We develop a theoretical model that studies viewer behavior by presenting a framework of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141211
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Does Policy Communication During Covid-19 Work?
Coibion, Olivier - 2020
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831220
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Countering Public Opposition to Immigration : The Impact of Information Campaigns
Facchini, Giovanni - 2017
Popular sentiment toward immigration is often antagonistic, making the integration of migrants one of the most important yet daunting challenges facing societies in advanced economies. Can information campaigns decrease public opposition to immigration? This paper reports results from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966825
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The Political Economy of Propaganda : Evidence from Us Newspapers
Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022
We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083860