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Popular Attitudes Towards Markets and Democracy : Russia and United States Compared 25 Years Later
Boycko, Maxim - 2016
1992) are added to compare attitudes towards democracy. Two comparisons are made: between countries, and through time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997900
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
We study whether current spending levels and public knowledge of them contribute to transatlantic differences in policy preferences by implementing parallel survey experiments in Germany and the United States. In both countries, support for increased education spending and teacher salaries falls...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979764
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Why Europe Should Love Tax Competition - and the U.S. Even More so
Janeba, Eckhard - 2010
parliamentary democracies (Europe) and presidential-congressional systems (USA) to show that increasing tax competition is likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012762903
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People'S Opium? Religion and Economic Attitudes
Guiso, Luigi; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
Since Max Weber, there has been an active debate on the impact of religion on people's economic attitudes. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on cross-country studies in which this impact is confounded by differences in other institutional factors. We use the World Values Surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236680
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Why is Economic Policy Different in New Democracies? Affecting Attitudes About Democracy
Brender, Adi - 2008
democracy may affect fiscal policy in new democracies in comparison to countries where democracy is older and often more …When democracy is new, it is often fragile and not fully consolidated. We investigate how the danger of a collapse of … established. We argue that the attitude of the citizenry towards democracy is important in preventing democratic collapse, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773336
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Joblessness and Perceptions About the Effectiveness of Democracy
Altindag, Duha T. - 2010
individuals and the prevailing unemployment rate in the country impact perceptions of the effectiveness of democracy. We find that … personal joblessness experience translates into negative opinions about the effectiveness of democracy and it increases the … that democracies are ineffective, regardless of joblessness. People's beliefs about the effectiveness of democracy as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143456
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Can Market and Voting Institutions Generate Optimal Intergenerational Risk Sharing?
Rangel, Antonio; Zeckhauser, Richard J. - 2021
Are market and voting institutions capable of producing optimal intergenerational risk-sharing? To study this question, we consider a simple endowment economy with uncertainty and overlapping generations. Endowments are stochastic; thus it is possible to increase the welfare of every generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013221836
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Good Bye Lenin (or Not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2009
Preferences for redistribution, as well as the generosities of welfare states, differ significantly across countries. In this paper, we test whether there exists a feedback process of the economic regime on individual preferences. We exploit the quot;experimentquot; of German separation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012767506
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Gender Differences in Covid-19 Related Attitudes and Behavior : Evidence from a Panel Survey in Eight OECD Countries
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2020
Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831280
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Income-Comparison Attitudes in the Us and the UK : Evidence from Discrete-Choice Experiments
Shigeoka, Hitoshi - 2016
Economists have long been aware of utility externalities such as a tendency to compare own income with others'. If welfare losses from income comparisons are significant, any governmental interventions that alter such attitudes may have large welfare consequences. We conduct an original online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998421