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Measuring Voters’ Multidimensional Policy Preferences with Conjoint Analysis : Application to Japan’s 2014 Election
Horiuchi, Yusaku - 2018
Representative democracy entails the aggregation of multiple policy issues by parties into competing bundles of policies, or ``manifestos,'' which are then evaluated holistically by voters in elections. This aggregation process obscures the multidimensional policy preferences underlying a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937159
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Procrastination, Prompts, and Preferences : Evidence from Daily Records of Self-Directed Learning Activities
Kikuchi, Rina; Onji, Kazuki - 2011
This paper presents evidence showing that a libertarian paternalistic intervention having significant but uneven effects on the student procrastination of a coursework assignment. We observe the degree of procrastination in a language course at a Japanese university with individuals’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014198228
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The causal effect of private and organizational climate-related identity on climate protection activities : evidence from a framed field experiment in Japan
Arimura, Toshihide; Groh, Elke D.; Nakai, Miwa; … - 2022
Based on data for more than 2,400 citizens in Japan, this paper empirically examines the effect of climate-related identity in private and organizational contexts on revealed climate protec-tion activities, measured through incentivized donations. To identify causal effects, we include the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013337354
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The Theory of Ethical Economy in the Historical School : Wilhelm Roscher, Lorenz von Stein, Gustav Schmoller, Wilhelm Dilthey and Contemporary Theory
Koslowski, Peter - 1995
The Historical School of Economics develops a historical theory of the economy and of business ethics. It investigates the ethical and cultural determinants of economic behaviour and economic institutions and forms an ethical and cultural theory of economics and business and the origin what, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013518561
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New liberalism in interwar Japan : a study of the magazine "The New Liberalism"
Yamamoto, Shimpei - In: War in the history of economic thought : economists and …, (pp. 117-137). 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011770768
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From new liberalism to neoliberalism : Japanese economists and the welfare state before 1980
Nishizawa, Tamotsu; Ikeda, Yukihiro - In: Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and …, (pp. 75-97). 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011740605
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Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state
Backhouse, Roger (ed.); Bateman, Bradley W. (ed.);  … - 2017
Machine generated contents note: -- Part I. Varieties of Liberalism and the early welfare state: UK, Germany, and Japan … -- 1. Liberalism and the welfare state in Britain, 1880-1945 -- Roger Backhouse, Bradley Bateman, and Tamotsu Nishizawa … -- 2. New liberalism to the new right: economists and the British welfare state after 1945 -- George Peden -- 3 …
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Comparing behavior between a large sample of smart students and a representative sample of Japanese adults
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Inukai, Keigo; Masuda, Takehito; … - 2022
We address a concern about the external validity, in particular, the representativeness of the sampled population, of an experiment conducted with university students. We do so by conducting largescale (partly) incentivized online surveys of students at a Japanese university and of a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012880164
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A Japan’s Experimental Comparison of Rebate and Matching in Charitable Giving
Sasaki, Shusaku; Kurokawa, Hirofumi; Ōtake, Fumio - 2021
This study uses a Japanese nationwide sample and experimentally compares rebate and matching, both of which are schemes intended to lower the price of monetary donation. Standard economic theory predicts that the two schemes will have the same effect on individuals’ donation behavior when...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241752