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  1. Firm size and society
    the link between firm size, job outcomes, and political attitudes
    Author: Hadziabdic, Sinisa; Kohl, Sebastian
    Published: November 2024
    Publisher:  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany

    Given the recent reconcentration of the economy in many private industries, the impact of working in firms of different sizes on occupational and political outcomes is of renewed interest. Using micro-level data for the US and Germany, two most... more

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    Given the recent reconcentration of the economy in many private industries, the impact of working in firms of different sizes on occupational and political outcomes is of renewed interest. Using micro-level data for the US and Germany, two most dissimilar cases in terms of labor market and political institutions, we show that large firms provide substantially more material and welfare benefits to their workers, while small firms are characterized by the highest job satisfaction and more harmonious relational dynamics. Workers in medium-sized firms appear to be "betwixt and between," being worst off in many dimensions, thus contradicting utopias of medium-sized-firm capitalism. Within firms of similar size, we also document a significant polarization between employers' and their employees' job experiences and political views. Given the number of waking hours spent in the workplace, the firm, hitherto a neglected locus of social sorting and socialization through which the economy shapes society, should figure more prominently in economic sociology research. Angesichts der jüngsten Re-Konzentration der Wirtschaft in vielen privaten Sektoren rücken die Auswirkungen der Arbeit in Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größe auf gesellschaftliche Zusammenhänge erneut in den Mittelpunkt des Interesses. Anhand von Mikro- ebene-Daten für die USA und Deutschland, zwei Länder, die sich in Bezug auf den Ar- beitsmarkt und die politischen Institutionen stark unterscheiden, zeigen wir, dass große Unternehmen ihren Arbeitnehmenden wesentlich mehr materielle und soziale Leistungen bieten, während sich kleine Unternehmen durch die höchste Arbeitszufriedenheit und eine harmonischere Beziehungsdynamik auszeichnen. Arbeitnehmende in mittelständischen Unternehmen scheinen hingegen "zwischen den Stühlen zu sitzen" und in vielerlei Hinsicht am schlechtesten gestellt zu sein, was den Verheißungen des Mittelstandskapitalismus widerspricht. In Unternehmen ähnlicher Größe dokumentieren wir auch eine signifikante Polarisierung zwischen den beruflichen Erfahrungen und den politischen Ansichten der Arbeitgebenden und ihrer Arbeitnehmenden. In Anbetracht der am Arbeitsplatz verbrachten Lebenszeit sollte das Unternehmen als Ort der sozialen Selektion und der Sozialisierung, durch den die Wirtschaft die Gesellschaft prägt, stärker in den Blick wirtschaftssoziologischer Forschung genommen werden.

     
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    Series: MPIfG discussion paper ; 24,9
    Subjects: company size; Germany; job outcomes; political attitudes; Arbeitsplatzqualität; Deutschland; politische Einstellungen; Unternehmensgröße; USA
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  2. The impact of massive protests on individual attitudes
    Author: Nupia, Oskar; Álvarez, Andrés
    Published: agosto de 2024
    Publisher:  Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia

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    Series: Documento CEDE ; 2024, 34
    Subjects: Social protest; political attitudes; political behavior; ideology; humanrights; income distribution; clientelism
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  3. Winning or buying hearts and minds?
    cash transfers and political attitudes in Pakistan
    Author: Ghorpade, Yashodhan; Justino, Patricia
    Published: November 2019
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The... more

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    This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to estimate causal effects. The main results show evidence of improved satisfaction with the government among beneficiaries of the programme. The paper discusses what potential mechanisms may explain this result and finds no evidence of changes in attitudes being associated with improvements in state capacity or better economic and security prospects. Instead, we find that the effect is present only when the programme has been in place in communities for over two years, which coincides with the switch to proxy-means test-based targeting from the earlier modality of nominations by parliamentarians. The main result is therefore driven by better connected and politically important communities that were favoured by incumbent parliamentarians for programme rollout before the introduction of objective targeting criteria.

     
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    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2019, 91
    Subjects: Social protection; political attitudes; cash transfers; Pakistan
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  4. Beliefs about public debt and the demand for government spending
    Author: Roth, Christopher; Settele, Sonja; Wohlfart, Johannes
    Published: February 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards government spending and taxation. Using representative samples of the US population, we run a series of experiments in which we provide half of our respondents with... more

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    We examine how beliefs about the debt-to-GDP ratio affect people's attitudes towards government spending and taxation. Using representative samples of the US population, we run a series of experiments in which we provide half of our respondents with information about the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US. Based on a total of more than 4,000 respondents, we find that most people underestimate the debt-to-GDP ratio and reduce their support for government spending once they learn about the actual amount of debt, but do not substantially alter their attitudes towards taxation. The treatment effects seem to operate through changes in expectations about fiscal sustainability and persist in a four-week follow-up.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8087 (2020)
    Subjects: government debt; political attitudes; beliefs; expectations; information
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  5. When distrust goes viral
    causal effects of Covid-19 on European political attitudes
    Author: Daniele, Gianmarco; Martinangeli, Andrea F.M.; Passarelli, Francesco; Sas, Willem; Windsteiger, Lisa
    Published: December 2020
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given... more

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    To investigate how Covid-19 is shaping the way Europeans think about institutions, we conducted a large online survey experiment during the first wave of the epidemic (June). With a randomised survey ow we varied whether respondents are given Covid-related treatment questions first, before answering the outcome questions. We find that the crisis has severely undermined trust in politicians, the media, the EU and social welfare spending financed by taxes. This is mainly due to economic insecurity, but also because of health concerns. We also uncover a rallying effect around (scientific) expertise combined with populist policies losing ground.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 8804 (2020)
    Subjects: Covid-19; institutional trust; political attitudes; online survey experiment; European Union; welfare; taxation; populism
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  6. Disguising prejudice
    popular rationales as excuses for intolerant expression
    Author: Bursztyn, Leonardo; Haaland, Ingar; Rao, Aakaash; Roth, Christopher
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  The University of Warwick, Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy, Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom

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    Series: Working paper series / Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy ; no. 555 (April 2021)
    Subjects: Social image; xenophobia; propaganda; political attitudes
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  7. Disguising prejudice
    Popular rationales as excuses for intolerant expression
    Author: Bursztyn, Leonardo; Haaland, Ingar; Rao, Aakaash; Roth, Christopher
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  University of Warwick, Department of Economics, Coventry, United Kingdom

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    Series: Warwick economics research papers ; no: 1340 (March 2021)
    Subjects: Social image; xenophobia; propaganda; political attitudes
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  8. Do the numbers matter?
    an experiment on policy preferences
    Author: Rasooly, Itzhak
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  SciencesPo, Department of Economics, [Paris]

    In theory, voter attitudes towards policy changes (e.g., whether to increase the minimum wage) ought to depend on their beliefs about the current level of the relevant policy variable. In this paper, I test this hypothesis using a large-scale (n = 5,... more

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    In theory, voter attitudes towards policy changes (e.g., whether to increase the minimum wage) ought to depend on their beliefs about the current level of the relevant policy variable. In this paper, I test this hypothesis using a large-scale (n = 5, 000) and pre-registered survey experiment that spans four different policy areas. The experiment yields four main results. First, voters have both inaccurate and biased beliefs about the levels of the policy variables. Second, voters' attitudes are remarkably unresponsive to changes in their beliefs about levels: for example, exogenously increasing average beliefs about the top tax rate by ∼8.5 percentage points does not increase the share who want to cut the top tax rate. Third, the observed unresponsiveness cannot be rationalised by a model in which voters form attitudes towards policy changes by comparing actual and preferred policy levels. Fourth, although attitudes are unresponsive to the quantitative information presented, they can be swayed by qualitative arguments.

     
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    Series: Sciences Po Economics discussion paper ; no. 2024, 02
    Subjects: political attitudes; survey experiment
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  9. Who cares?
    attitudes towards redistribution and fiscal austerity
    Author: Brown, Sarah; Kontonikas, Alexandros; Montagnoli, Alberto; Moro, Mirko; Papoutsaki, Dafni; Sas, Willem
    Published: November 2021
    Publisher:  CESifo, Center for Economic Studies & Ifo Institute, Munich, Germany

    We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution:... more

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    We present new evidence showing that fiscal austerity strengthens support for redistribution, especially for the relatively well-off. Our theoretical model proposes two mechanisms to explain this heterogeneity in support for redistribution: "altruism" and "appreciation". We test our theoretical model's predictions by matching attitudes reported in the British Social Attitudes Survey with local area-level spending cuts in England over the period 2010 to 2015. We exploit the spatial and temporal variation in spending cuts at the Local Authority level to compute a plausibly exogenous measure of the austerity shock. We find evidence for these two channels.

     
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    Series: CESifo working paper ; no. 9393 (2021)
    Subjects: austerity; fiscal consolidation; fiscal policy; redistribution; political attitudes; altruism; appreciation
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  10. Learning from the origins
    Author: Yarkin, Alexander
    Published: August 2023
    Publisher:  CESifo, Munich, Germany

    How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad.... more

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    How do political preferences and voting behaviors respond to information coming from abroad? Focusing on the international migration network, I document that opinion changes at the origins spill over to 1st- and 2nd-generation immigrants abroad. Local diasporas, social media, and family ties to the origins facilitate the transmission, while social integration at destination weakens it. Using the variation in the magnitude, timing, and type of origin-country exposure to the European Refugee Crisis of 2015, I show that salient events trigger learning from the origins. Welcoming asylum policies at the origins decrease opposition to non-Europeans and far-right voting abroad. Transitory refugee flows through the origins send abroad the backlash. Data from Google Trends and Facebook suggests elevated attention to events at the origins and communication with like-minded groups as mechanisms. Similar spillovers following the passage of same-sex marriage laws show the phenomenon generalizes beyond refugee attitudes.

     
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    Series: CESifo working papers ; 10626 (2023)
    Subjects: immigration; social networks; spillovers; political attitudes; integration
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  11. Coronagraben
    culture and social distancing in times of COVID-19
    Author: Deopa, Neha; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  United Nations, Geneva

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    Series: UNCTAD research paper ; No. 49
    Subjects: Coronavirus; Infektionsschutz; Kulturelle Identität; Soziale Beziehungen; Soziale Werte; Schweiz; COVID-19; Culture; Social distancing; trust; political attitudes
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  12. Network analysis of the determinants of attitudes towards immigrants across regions
    Author: Kawasaki, Rachael Kei; Ikeda, Yūichi
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  RIETI, [Tokyo, Japan]

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    Series: RIETI discussion paper series ; 21-E, 097 (December 2021)
    Subjects: migration; political attitudes; network science; political economy
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  13. What do politicians think of technocratic institutions? Experimental Evidence on the European Central Bank
    Author: Ferrara, Federico M.; Masciandaro, Donato; Moschella, Manuela; Romelli, Davide
    Published: [2023]
    Publisher:  SSRN, [S.l.]

    Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have... more

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    Technocracy has come to be increasingly regarded as a threat to representative democracy. Significant attention has thus been recently devoted to exploring public preferences towards technocratic institutions. Elected policymakers’ attitudes have instead not been investigated as systematically. This paper fills this gap by examining politicians’ views on central banks. Based on an original elite survey of the Members of the European Parliament, we gauge elected policymakers’ attitudes towards the mandate and policy conduct of the European Central Bank. Our findings show that the political orientation of politicians largely drives attitudes towards the ECB’s institutional mandate. Interestingly, the findings from two experiments embedded in the survey also show that the attitudes of MEPs are not as static as ideological orientations would lead us to expect. The information set to which politicians are exposed significantly shapes their views on both the ECB’s mandate and its policy conduct, but less on ECB independence

     
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    Series: BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper ; No. 201
    Subjects: accountability; central banks; ECB; independence; political attitudes; technocracy; trust
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  14. E-government and democracy in Botswana
    observational and experimental evidence on the effect of e-government usage on political attitudes
    Author: Bante, Jana; Helmig, Felix; Prasad, Lara; Scheu, Lea Deborah; Seipel, Jean Christoph; Geray, Markus; Schiller, Armin von; Sebudubudu, David; Ziaja, Sebastian
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik, Bonn

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  15. Fairness views and political preferences
    evidence from a representative sample
    Author: Müller, Daniel; Renes, Sander
    Published: [2019]
    Publisher:  Research platform Empirical and Experimental Economics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized elicitation in a large and heterogeneous sample of the German population. We document several empirical facts: i) egalitarianism is the predominant ideal; ii)... more

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    We elicit distributional fairness ideals of impartial spectators using an incentivized elicitation in a large and heterogeneous sample of the German population. We document several empirical facts: i) egalitarianism is the predominant ideal; ii) females are more egalitarian than men; iii) men are relatively more efficiency minded; iv) left-leaning voters are more likely to be egalitarians whereas right-leaning voters are more likely to be efficiency minded; and v) young and highly-educated participants hold different fairness ideals than the rest of the population. Moreover, we show that the fairness ideals predict preferences for redistribution and intervention by the government, as well as actual charitable giving, even after controlling for a range of covariates. Hence, our paper contributes to our understanding of the underpinnings of voting behavior and ideological preferences, as well the literature that links lab and field behavior.

     
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    Series: Working papers in economics and statistics ; 2019, 08
    Subjects: Distributional fairness; impartial spectator; representative sample; political attitudes; voting behavior; lab to field
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