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  1. Medical marijuana laws and mental health in the United States
    Author: Kalbfuß, Jörg; Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: [2018]
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science, London

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    Series: CEP discussion paper ; no 1546 (May 2018)
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  2. Tobacco control policies and smoking behavior in Europe
    more than trends?
    Author: Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: September 2018
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    In many European countries, there is an unmissable trend towards stricter tobacco control policies and a parallel reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We therefore... more

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    In many European countries, there is an unmissable trend towards stricter tobacco control policies and a parallel reduction in the prevalence of smoking. The extent to which policies promote this latter trend, however, is less clear. We therefore analyze the staggered introductions of smoking bans and the variation in cigarette taxes over more than twenty years. After taking into account unobserved country- and time-specfiic effects as well as country-specific trends, we find no clear evidence that smoking bans are associated with lower levels of smoking. In contrast, higher cigarette prices tend to be negatively related to smoking, in particular for men and people under the age of 30. However, price elasticities are small. Overall, the results suggest that only about one sixth of the decline in the prevalence of smoking in Europe can be explained by our policy variables.

     
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  3. Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
    Author: Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics, University of St.Gallen, St. Gallen

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    Series: Discussion paper / University of St.Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economics ; no. 2018, 13 (November 2018)
    Subjects: Attention; campaign finance; interest groups; legislative voting; mass media; media attention; roll call voting; US House of Representatives
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  4. Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention
    Author: Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: November 2018
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn, Germany

    Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of... more

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    Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to politics. Combining data on campaign finance donations made by individuals and special interest groups with information on their preferences for particular bills, we construct novel measures of electoral and organized interests pressure that representatives face with regard to specific legislative votes. In our analysis based on 490 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we find strong evidence that representatives are more likely to vote with special interests and against constituency interests when the two are in conflict. Importantly, the latter effect is significantly larger when there is less attention on politics. Thereby, we draw on exogenous newsworthy shock events that crowd out news on the legislative process, but are themselves not related to it. The opportunistic behavior seems not to be mediated by short-term scheduling of sensitive votes right after distracting events.

     
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  5. Overstrained citizens?
    the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N.
    Published: October 2018
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with... more

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    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation in the number of federal propositions and plausibly exogenous variation in the number of cantonal propositions. Only with a relatively high number of propositions on the ballot do voters have less knowledge about federal propositions. Otherwise, we find no indication that the number of ballot propositions impedes the quality of decision making in direct democracy. For instance, a higher number of propositions does not lead more voters to support proposals endorsed by pole parties. If anything, having more federal propositions on the ballot relates to higher perceived political influence and satisfaction with democracy.

     
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  6. The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners' location choices
    Author: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: January 2019
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland... more

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    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland which had previously been hidden. We exploit this fact as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we find that the probability of their moving to a municipality which unexpectedly expressed stronger reservations decreases initially by about 40 percent. The effect is accompanied by a drop of housing prices in these municipalities and levels off over a period of about 5 months. Moreover, foreigners in high-skill occupations react relatively more strongly highlighting a tension when countries try to attract well-educated professionals from abroad.

     
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  7. Happiness and economics
    how the economy and institutions affect [human] well-being
    Author: Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ [u.a.]

    Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish... more

     

    Curiously, economists, whose discipline has much to do with human well-being, have shied away from factoring the study of happiness into their work. Happiness, they might say, is an ''unscientific'' concept. This is the first book to establish empirically the link between happiness and economics--and between happiness and democracy. Two respected economists, Bruno S. Frey and Alois Stutzer, integrate insights and findings from psychology, where attempts to measure quality of life are well-documented, as well as from sociology and political science. They demonstrate how micro- and macro-econom

     
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    ISBN: 9781400829262
    Subjects: Well-being; Happiness; Economics
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    Part I. Setting the stage : 1. Happiness2. Well-being and economics -- 3. Personality and socio-demographic influences on happiness -- Part II. Economic effects on happiness : 4. Income -- 5. Employment -- 6. Inflation -- Part III. Political effects on happiness : 7. The current politico-economic process -- 8: Constitution: popular referenda and federalism -- 9: Outcome and process -- Part IV. Conclusions : 10. Happiness inspires economics.
  8. Overstrained citizens?
    the number of ballot propositions and the quality of the decision process in direct democracy
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Baltensperger, Michael; Meier, Armando N.
    Published: June 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with... more

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    We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation in the number of federal and cantonal propositions. Voters know the most about the content of federal propositions when they are exclusively presented and less with a high number of concurrent cantonal propositions on the ballot. Across other outcomes we find no consistent indications that – for the observed variation in the exposure to popular votes – a high number of propositions impedes the quality of decision making in Swiss federal direct democracy. In the medium to longer term, more federal propositions on the ballot rather relate to higher perceived political influence and satisfaction with democracy.

     
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  9. Tobacco sales prohibition and teen smoking
    Author: Meier, Armando N.; Odermatt, Reto; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: March 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from 1990 to 2016. The estimates indicate a less than 1... more

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    We evaluate one of the most prevalent prohibitory policies: banning the sales of tobacco to teens. We exploit the staggered introduction of sales bans across Switzerland and the European Union from 1990 to 2016. The estimates indicate a less than 1 percentage point reduction in teen smoking because of the bans. The reduction is substantially lower than the 5 percentage point reduction expected by health officials. We examine additional outcomes relevant to assessing any prohibitory policy. We find that teens circumvent the bans through peers. Moreover, they consider smokers less cool but do not think smoking is more dangerous.

     
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  10. Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
    Author: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman
    Published: February 2018
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known... more

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    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper their participation in the labor market, in particular during the important initial period of their stay in the host country. In order to evaluate whether inclusive labor market policies increase the labor market participation of asylum seekers, we exploit the variation in asylum policies in Swiss cantons to which asylum seekers are randomly allocated. During our study period from 2011 to 2014, the employment rate among asylum seekers varied between 0% and 30.2% across cantons. Our results indicate that labor market access regulations are responsible for a substantial proportion of these differences, in which an inclusive regime increases participation by 11 percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in their host canton.

     
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  11. Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
    Author: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known... more

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    In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as an important mechanism for easing their economic and social lot in the short as well as in the long term. However, little is known about the policies that foster or hamper their participation in the labor market, in particular during the important initial period of their stay in the host country. In order to evaluate whether inclusive labor market policies increase the labor market participation of asylum seekers, we exploit the variation in asylum policies in Swiss cantons to which asylum seekers are as good as randomly allocated. During our study period from 2011 to 2014, the employment rate among asylum seekers varied between 0% and 30.2% across cantons. Our results indicate that labor market access regulations are responsible for a substantial proportion of these differences, in which an inclusive regime increases participation by 11 percentage points. The marginal effects are larger for asylum seekers who speak a language that is linguistically close to the one in their host canton.

     
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  12. Does public attention reduce the influence of moneyed interests?
    policy positions on SOPA/PIPA before and after the internet blackout
    Author: Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: May 2019
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January... more

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    We investigate the role of public attention in determining the effect that campaign contributions by interest groups have on legislators' policy positions. We exploit the shock in public attention induced by the Internet service blackout of January 2012 that increased the salience of the SOPA/PIPA bills aimed at stronger protection of property rights on the Internet. Using a new dataset of U.S. congressmen's public statements, we find a strong statistical relationship between campaign contributions funded by the affected industries and legislators' positions. However, this relationship evaporates once the two bills become primary policy issues. Our results are consistent with the notion that legislators choose positions on secondary policy issues in order to cater to organized interests, whereas positions on primary policy issues are driven by electoral support.

     
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  13. Happiness and public policy
    a procedural perspective
    Author: Stutzer, Alois
    Published: September 2019
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should... more

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    This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented towards a decision rule maximizing some aggregate measure of subjective well-being. This social engineering perspective, implicit in much reasoning about well-being policy, neglects i) important motivation problems on the part of government actors, such as incentives to manipulate indicators, but also on the part of citizens to truthfully report their well-being, and ii) procedural utility as a source of well-being. Instead, well-being research should be oriented towards gaining insights that improve the diagnoses of societal problems and help to evaluate alternative institutional arrangements to address them, both as inputs into the democratic process.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 12622
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  14. Blood donations and incentives
    evidence from a field experiment
    Author: Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 16 April 2019
    Publisher:  Centre for Economic Policy Research, London

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  15. The deterrent effect of an anti-minaret vote on foreigners' location choices
    Author: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht

    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland... more

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    In a national ballot in 2009, Swiss citizens surprisingly approved an amendment to the Swiss constitution to ban the further construction of minarets. The ballot outcome manifested reservations and anti-immigrant attitudes in regions of Switzerland which had previously been hidden. We exploit this fact as a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of negative attitudes towards immigrants on foreigners' location choices and thus indirectly on their utility. Based on a regression discontinuity design with unknown discontinuity points and administrative data on the population of foreigners, we find that the probability of their moving to a municipality which unexpectedly expressed stronger reservations decreases initially by about 40 percent. The effect is accompanied by a drop of housing prices in these municipalities and levels off over a period of about 5 months. Moreover, foreigners in high-skill occupations react relatively more strongly highlighting a tension when countries try to attract well-educated professionals from abroad.

     
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  16. Power sharing at the local level
    evidence on opting-in for non-citizen voting rights
    Author: Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: November 2019
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens... more

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    The enfranchisement of foreigners is likely one of the most controversial frontiers of institutional change in developed democracies, which are experiencing an increasing number of non-citizen residents. We study the conditions under which citizens are willing to share power. To this end, we exploit the unique setting of the Swiss canton of Grisons, where municipalities are free to decide on the introduction of non-citizen voting rights at the local level (a so called opting-in regime). Consistent with the power dilution hypothesis, we find that enfranchisement is less likely the larger the share of resident foreigners. Moreover, municipalities with a large language/cultural minority are less likely to formally involve foreigners. In contrast, municipality mergers seem to act as an institutional catalyst, promoting democratic reforms. A supplementary panel analysis on electoral support for an opting-in regime in the canton of Zurich also backs the power dilution hypothesis, showing that a larger share of foreigners reduces support for a regime change.

     
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  17. Blood donations and incentives
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    Author: Götte, Lorenz; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: November 2019
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month... more

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    There is a longstanding concern that material rewards might undermine pro-social motivations, thereby leading to a decrease in blood donations. This paper provides an empirical test of how material rewards affect blood donations in a three-month large-scale field experiment and a fifteen-month follow-up period, involving more than 10,000 previous donors. We examine the efficacy of a lottery ticket as a reward vis-à-vis a standard invitation, an appeal, and a free cholesterol test. The offer of a lottery ticket, on average, increases the probability to donate blood during the experiment by 5.6 percentage points over a baseline donation rate of 46 percent. We find that this effect is driven by less motivated donors. Moreover, no reduction in donations is observed after the experiment.

     
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  18. Rain, emotions and voting for the status quo
    Author: Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: August 2019
    Publisher:  Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Basel, Switzerland

    Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests... more

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    Do emotions affect the decision between change and the status quo? We exploit exogenous variation in emotions caused by rain and analyze data on more than 870,000 municipal vote outcomes in Switzerland to address this question. The empirical tests are based on administrative ballot outcomes and individual postvote survey data. We find that rain decreases the share of votes for political change. Our robustness checks suggest that this finding is not driven by changes in the composition of the electorate and changes in information acquisition. In addition, we provide evidence that rain might have altered the outcome of several high-stake votes. We discuss the psychological mechanism and document that rain reduces the willingness to take risks, a pattern that is consistent with the observed reduction in the support for change.

     
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  19. The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
    Author: Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  CESifo, München

    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach... more

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    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation technique. The LSA builds on the recent development of subjective well-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income and other covariates. The estimated coefficients for the environmental good and income can then be used to calculate the implicit willingness-to-pay for the environmental good. -- life satisfaction approach ; subjective well-being ; non-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution

     
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    Series: Array ; 2836
    Subjects: Umweltbelastung; Umweltschutz; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Zufriedenheit; Lebensqualität; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse; Theorie
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  20. Ökonomische Überlegungen zur Kameraüberwachung als Maßnahme gegen den Terrorismus
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

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    Series: WWZ Working Paper ; 09,06
    Subjects: Messtechnik; Videogerät; Terrorismus; Kriminalität; Wahrnehmung
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  21. Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S.
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  IZA, Bonn

    Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective... more

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    Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the social sciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeing is often taken as a proxy measure for individual welfare. In our review, we intend to provide an evaluation of where the economic research on happiness stands and of three directions it might develop. First, it offers new ways for testing the basic assumptions of the economic approach and for going about a new understanding of utility. Second, it provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. -- Economics ; happiness ; life satisfaction ; survey data ; income ; public goods ; unemployment

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4850
    Subjects: Zufriedenheit; Wirtschaftswissenschaft; Empirische Methode; Wirtschaftspolitik
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  22. Camera surveillance as a measure of counterterrorism?
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Zehnder, Michael
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Economics of Security, Berlin

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    Series: Economics of security working paper series ; 34
    Subjects: Messtechnik; Videogerät; Terrorismus; Öffentliche Sicherheit; Schweiz
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  23. The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
    Author: Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit, Bonn

    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach... more

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    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation technique. The LSA builds on the recent development of subjective well-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income and other covariates. The estimated coefficients for the environmental good and income can then be used to calculate the implicit willingness-to-pay for the environmental good. -- Life satisfaction approach ; subjective well-being ; non-market valuation ; cost-benefit analysis ; air pollution

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit ; 4478
    Subjects: Umweltbelastung; Umweltschutz; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Zufriedenheit; Lebensqualität; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse; Theorie
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  24. Public servants in parliament
    theory and evidence on its determinants in Germany
    Author: Stutzer, Alois; Brändle, Thomas
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

    This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments... more

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    This paper addresses the personal linkages between the public service and the legislature that emerge because public servants pursue a political mandate. There are concerns that the strong representation of public servants in many Western parliaments compromises the constitutionally proposed political neutrality of the public service and generates a conflict of interest. We present a cost-benefit calculus and analyze specific legal provisions for the German Laender to understand the selection of public servants into parliaments. Based on a novel data set, we find that incompatibility rules decrease and abeyance compensation increases the fraction of public servants in Laender parliaments.

     
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    Series: WWZ research paper ; 09,08
    Subjects: Wahl; Gewaltenteilung; Staatliche Einflussnahme; Bürokratie; Teilstaat; Deutschland
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  25. The life satisfaction approach to environmental valuation
    Author: Frey, Bruno S.; Lüchinger, Simon; Stutzer, Alois
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  WWZ, Basel

    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach... more

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    In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improve environmental quality and thus individuals' well-being. However, how do individuals value the environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representing a new non-market valuation technique. The LSA builds on the recent development of subjective well-being research in economics and takes measures of reported life satisfaction as an empirical approximation to individual welfare. Micro-econometric life satisfaction functions are estimated taking into account environmental conditions along with income and other covariates. The estimated coefficients for the environmental good and income can then be used to calculate the implicit willingness-to-pay for the environmental good.

     
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    Series: WWZ Discussion Paper ; 09,07
    Subjects: Umweltbelastung; Umweltschutz; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Zufriedenheit; Lebensqualität; Zahlungsbereitschaftsanalyse; Theorie
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