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Equality of the sexes and gender differences in competition : evidence from three traditional societies

Klonner, Stefan; Pal, Sumantra; Schwieren, Christiane - 2020

Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional patriarchic as well as in modern societies? We experimentally assess men's and women's preferences to compete in a traditional society where women and men have similar rights and...

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Finding your right (or left) partner to merge

Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - 2015

We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using an extensive data set on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and...

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The size of political jurisdictions : evidence from a fascist consolidation

Andini, Monica; Dalmazzo, Alberto; De Blasio, Guido - 2013 - This version: 28 January 2013

The paper uses the consolidation of municipalities brought about by the Fascist dictatorship in Italy during the 1920s to gauge the role of the size of local jurisdictions for economic development. It finds that the consolidation was associated with relevant net welfare gains for the communities...

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Public expenditure, policy coordination, and regional inequality

Ott, Ingrid; Soretz, Susanne - 2019

We analyze within a spatial endogenous growth setting the impact of public policy coordination on regional inequality. Governments in each of the two symmetric regions provide a local public input that becomes globally effective due to integration. Micro-foundation of governmental behavior is...

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Photovoltaics and the solar rebound : evidence for Germany

Frondel, Manuel; Kaestner, Kathrin; Sommer, Stephan; … - 2021

Recent research suggests that households would increase their electricity consumption in the aftermath of installing photovoltaics (PV) panels, a behavioral change commonly referred to as the solar rebound. Drawing on panel data originating from the German Residential Energy Consumption Survey...

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Analysis of commuting in the Moscow region using GIS techniques

Shitova, Yulia Yu.; Shitov, Yury A.; Mitroshin, Anton A.; … - 2014

The distance and time of home-workplace commuter journeys of more than 700,000 workers in the Moscow region have been determined by GIS techniques using data from the year 2001. This has allowed visualization of commuting patterns in the Moscow region in the framework of a geospatial approach...

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Age and cohort effects on regional migration in Turkey

Var, Elif Berna; Dökmeci, Vedia F. - 2013

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Does it really get better with age? : life-cycle patterns of confidence in Germany

Friehe, Tim; Pannenberg, Markus - 2019

This paper investigates if and how confidence at the individual level changes over the course of a life. We provide age … probability increase non-linearly with age up to the fifties. To illustrate the economic importance of the identified age gradient …-related confidence levels are, in all likelihood, a hindrance for prudent financial decisions in preparation for old age. …

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Impact of political marketing in digital environment on voters with regard to their age

Stilin, Žarko; Samardžić, Vinko; Šustar, Kristijan - 2020

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On the relevance of economic preferences, values, norms, and socio-demographics for electricity consumption

Groh, Elke D.; Ziegler, Andreas - 2020

As long as electricity is generated from fossil fuels, the reduction of its consumption is an important direction for climate protection and related policy measures. Based on data of more than 3700 respondents in Germany, we thus empirically examine the relevance of a large set of well-known...

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