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We analyse the effect of mass violent conflict on individual expectations in Northern Uganda. We find that the expectations of the future economic situation are negatively affected by recent conflict while the effect on broadly defined welfare is less robust.
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Economics Letters
113 (2011), 3, S. 288-291
| Carlos Bozzoli, Tilman Brück, Tony Muhumuza
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This paper studies risk attitudes using a large representative survey and a complementary experiment conducted with a representative subject pool in subjects' homes. Using a question asking people about their willingness to take risks -in general -, we find that gender, age, height, and parental background have an economically significant impact on willingness to take risks. The experiment confirms ...
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Journal of the European Economic Association
9 (2011), 3, S. 522-550
| Thomas Dohmen, Armin Falk, David Huffman, Uwe Sunde, Jürgen Schupp, Gert G. Wagner
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Research on ethnolinguistic heterogeneity has so far mostly focused on domestic measures, while little attention has been paid to ethnolinguistic relations between nations. In this paper, I propose a way of measuring ethnolinguistic affinity between nations. This index measures the degree of similarity two randomly drawn individuals from two different populations are expected to display. I show that ...
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Journal of Development Studies
47 (2011), 3, S. 436-454
| Olaf J. de Groot
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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from rich to poor, the rich should favour mixed over pure public provision, but if public provision redistributes ...
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European Journal of Political Economy
27 (2011), 3, S. 436-454
| Rainald Borck, Katharina Wrohlich
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We study the strategic utilization of storage in imperfect electricity markets. We apply a game-theoretic Cournot model to the German power market and analyze different counterfactual and realistic cases of pumped hydro storage. Our main finding is that both storage utilization and storage-related welfare effects depend on storage ownership and the operator's involvement in conventional generation. ...
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The Energy Journal
32 (2011), 3, S. 59-87
| Wolf-Peter Schill, Claudia Kemfert
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Hedonism, or wanting to feel good, is central to human motivation. At times, however, people also seek to maintain or enhance negative affect or to dampen positive affect, and this can be instrumental for the later attainment of their goals. Here, we investigate the assumption that such contra-hedonic orientation is cognitively more demanding than prohedonic orientation, above and beyond the effects ...
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Emotion
11 (2011), 3, S. 656-665
| Michaela Riediger, Cornelia Wrzus, Florian Schmiedek, Gert G. Wagner, Ulman Lindenberger
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Boone (2008a) proposes a new competition measure based on Relative Profit Differences (RPD) that, from its theoretical properties, proves to be more robust than the Lerner-Index. However, the proof of the empirical practicability and robustness of the Boone-Indicator is missing. To fill this gap, we use a rich, newly built, data set for German manufacturing enterprises and test its empirical validity ...
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Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik
231 (2011), 3, S. 336-357
| Alexander Schiersch, Jens Schmidt-Ehmcke
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This paper investigates the short-term effects of public smoking bans on individual smoking behavior. In 2007 and 2008, state-level smoking bans were gradually introduced in all of Germany's federal states. We exploit this variation to identify the effect that smoke-free policies had on individuals' smoking propensity and smoking intensity. Using rich longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic ...
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Journal of Health Economics
30 (2011), 3, S. 591-601
| Silke Anger, Michael Kvasnicka, Thomas Siedler
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We study life satisfaction data from the 2005 World Values Survey and a 2009 survey of users of the virtual world Second Life. Second Life users do not have the same demographic profile as the general population, but the differences are not as large as we expected. The mechanisms and causes of life satisfaction seem to be similar in the two samples. Among Second Life users, satisfaction with their ...
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Kyklos
64 (2011), 3, S. 313-328
| Edward Castronova, Gert G. Wagner
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While previous research has looked at the determinants of the quality of institutions, not much research has been done that looks at the determinants of institutional change. This paper examines what determines the probability of an improvement in political freedoms. Several path-dependent variables, such as the history of political freedom, are clearly influential. In addition to that, economic openness ...
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Kyklos
64 (2011), 3, S. 410-426
| Olaf J. de Groot