Dramatic food price spikes in recent years have stimulated debate on the welfare implications of food price risk. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the number of undernourished people in sub-Saharan Africa rose to a record 265 million in 2009. There is a...

Being beautiful gives a person an advantage in many settings. Attractive people earn more and have an easier time getting hired. People spend large amounts of money on goods and services to enhance their beauty. Is this enhancement worth pursuing? Research suggests that the expected improvement...

Politikberatung ist in einer komplexen Umwelt nicht trivial. Versucht man mit theoretischen Modellen Politikfragen zu beantworten, sind die Modellvoraussetzungen entscheidend, aber oft nicht mit der Realität vereinbar. Der Sachverständigenrat setzt auf eine evidenzbasierte Politikberatung....

Wir diskutieren Ergebnisse einer Studie über die Akzeptanz und Effektivität kognitiver und moralischer Nudges am Beispiel von Standardeinstellungen und sozialer Information. Unsere Studienteilnehmenden ordnen diese beiden Dimensionen von Nudges unterschiedlich ein. Im Fokus des Beitrags stehen...

The study investigates how government can implement an increase in the rate of value-added tax (VAT) to ensure that the final rate of 15% is achieved in a way that satisfies the public (households and business community) and also ensures maximum revenue generation for the government. The...

This study examines the relationship between the access to homebuyer credits and housing satisfaction among those buying affordable apartments, using a sample of 1,000 respondents from our own survey in 2016 in Hanoi, Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh Cities. Our regression analysis reveals the education...

Attainment of 70 years life expectancy by 2020 is one of the millennium development goals in Nigeria. This study examined the socio-economic determinants of life expectancy in Nigeria using data from 1980 - 2011. Judging from the endogeneity feature of the variables, A VAR and VECM frameworks...

This paper provides a unified vision of a number of results that appeared in three separate streams of literature. The author emphasizes the strong parallelism between the results obtained in a number of papers that analyzed the relationships between price cap regulation, welfare maximization,...

The authors investigate the desirability of income taxes when the objective is to mitigate wasteful conspicuous consumption generated by people's status-seeking behavior. They consider the joint role of pre-tax wage inequality and of social norms determining how social status is assigned. They...