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How Vatican II influenced female enfranchisement: A story of rapid cultural change

Koukal, Anna Maria - 2017

The importance of culture for human behavior is well established in the economic literature. So far, most authors have emphasized the long persistence of cultural traits. In contrast, this paper deals with an important case of a rapid update of culturally rooted beliefs and behavior. Using a...

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Evaluations: Hidden Costs, Questionable Benefits, and Superior Alternatives

Frey, Bruno S.; Osterloh, Margit - 2006

Research evaluation is praised as the symbol of modern quality management. We claim firstly, performance evaluations in research have higher costs than normally assumed, because the evaluated persons and institutions systematically change their behavior and develop counter strategies. Moreover,...

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Tullock Challenges: Happiness, Revolutions and Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy: Lessons from youth enfranchisement

Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … referendums on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18. We focus on the role of institutional price variations by (i) the depth of … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …

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To swing or not to swing: An assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting

Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021

first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism … Parliamentary Election Survey (DPES) 1989 to 2010. Our results indicate that swing voting is less likely to occur in older age … groups and more likely among individuals with higher levels of political cynicism. The age effects tend to be stronger among …

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Benediktinerabteien aus ökonomischer Sicht

Inauen, Emil; Frey, Bruno S. - 2008

Die Benediktinerklöster weisen im Vergleich zu anderen Institutionen eine ungewöhnlich lange Lebensdauer auf. Unsere empirische Untersuchung aller je existierenden Benediktinerabteien in Bayern, Baden-Württemberg und der Deutschschweiz zeigt, dass ein durchschnittliches Kloster fast 500...

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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History: A Comment on Becker and Woessmann

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Torgler, Benno - 2009

This comment makes a contribution to Becker and Woessmann's paper on a human capital theory of Protestant economic history eventually challenging the famous thesis by Max Weber who attributed economic success to a specific Protestant work ethic (Quarterly Journal of Economics 124 (2) (2009)...

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The emergence of emotions and pro-social and religious sentiments during the September 11 disaster

Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2011

Analysing emotional states under duress or during heightened, life-and-death situations is extremely difficult, especially given the inability of laboratory experiments to adequately replicate the environment and the inherent biases of post event surveys. It is in this area that natural...

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Inherited Trust and Growth - Comment

Müller, Daniel; Torgler, Benno; Uslaner, Eric M. - 2012

Algan and Cahuc in "Inherited Trust and Growth" (AER, 2010) argue that "inherited trust" is a key factor in explaining growth rates across countries. They derive a measure of inherited trust by linking respondents' "home countries" in the United States General Social Survey (1972-2004) and the...

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Suicide and Religion: New Evidence on The Differences Between Protestantism and Catholicism

Torgler, Benno; Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2012

In this study of the persistent social phenomenon of suicide, we find that even though theological and social differences between Catholicism and Protestantism have decreased, Catholics are still less likely than Protestants to commit or accept suicide. This difference remains even after we...

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