Similar Search Results

No longer top of the class: Professorial salaries in the 20th century

Sohn, Alexander - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Using individual income data from university archives, we look at the development of professorial salaries over a time-span covering the Kaiserreich, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich as well as the Federal Republic of Germany. We find that relative salaries have fallen dramatically, both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957921

Prejudice in Swiss Naturalization Decisions: Theory and Evidence

Ilic, Dragan - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Recent empirical studies have revealed prejudice based on country of origin in the Swiss naturalization system before courts banned closed ballot voting in 2003. Although the switch to elected councils has ameliorated the situation for the discriminated applicant groups, little has been known...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958095

A weighty issue revisited: the dynamic effect of body weight on earnings and satisfaction in Germany

Kropfhäußer, Frieder; Sunder, Marco - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

We estimate the effect of changes in the body mass index on wages and satisfaction in a panel of German employees. Dynamic models indicate that satisfaction with life in general and with health are responsive to weight changes, but wages and satisfaction with work are not. These results mainly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010986001

Lobbying for Subsidies with Heterogeneous Firms

Kammerer, Hannes - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Recent empirical evidence shows that the few firms that receive subsidies are large, and that large firms take a prominent role in shaping public policy by lobbying. In this paper, I present a theoretical framework that accounts for these empirical facts in a unified way. I study the role of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957938

Majority Vote on Educational Standards

Schwager, Robert - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

The direct democratic choice of an examination standard, i.e., a performance level required to graduate, is evaluated against a utilitarian welfare function. It is shown that the median preferred standard is inefficiently low if the marginal cost of reaching a higher performance reacts more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957954

The Value of Information in Asymmetric All-Pay Auctions

Seel, Christian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

This paper analyzes a two-player all-pay auction with incomplete information. More precisely, one bidder is uncertain about the size of the initial advantage of his rival modeled as a head start in the auction. I derive the unique Bayesian Nash equilibrium outcome for a large class of cumulative...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957988

Welfare Effects of Public Service Broadcasting in a Free-to-Air TV Market

Sieg, Gernot; Rothbauer, Jula - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

A welfare-maximizing Public Service Broadcaster (PSB) broadcasts both information-type and show-type content if (i) the information consumption of TV viewers generates external benefits for society by improving the ability of voters to control politicians and (ii) the marginal external benefits...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957992

Does the Field of Study Influence Students' Political Attitudes?

Potrafke, Niklas; Fischer, Mira; Ursprung, Heinrich - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958006

Electoral cycles in savings bank lending

Stowasser, Till; Englmaier, Florian - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

systematically adjust lending policies in response to local electoral cycles. The different timing of county elections across states … connectedness allow for clean identification of causal effects of county elections on savings banks lending. These effects are … entrenchment and in the contestedness of upcoming elections. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958029

Radio and the rise of Nazi in pre-war Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013

How far can media undermine democratic institutions and how persuasive can it be in assuring public support for dictator policies? We study this question in the context of Germany before World War II, between 1929 and 1939. First, we estimate the impact of radio signal on voting for the Nazi...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010958047