Der Bildungsföderalismus gerät immer wieder in die Kritik. Er bringe im internationalen Vergleich schlechte Schülerleistungen hervor. Die Schulabschlüsse in den einzelnen Bundesländern seien nicht vergleichbar, was die Mobilität von Familien mit schulpflichtigen Kindern erschwere....

Economic models on voting usually assume that voters maximize their own material interests. Yet there is convincing evidence that people also tend to care about fairness and the common good. Furthermore, some voters may derive utility from the act of voting in a certain way, independent of...

Quasi‐hyperbolic discounted preferences imply that consumers overemphasize immediate current rewards and overlook future ones (they have a “bias for the present”). Within this context the literature has emphasized that the misalignment between immediate and future rewards can be rectified...