Discussion Paper Series

A Paradise for Foreign Capitalists? Expenditure-based Taxation in Switzerland, 1916-2020

Thibaud Giddey, Geoffroy Legentilhomme, Matthieu Leimgruber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 73, August 2025 (PDF, 4 MB)

Disconnecting Women: Gender Disparities in the Impact of Online Instruction

Uschi Backes-Gellner, Xiaoyue Shan, Ulf Zölitz

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 72, August 2025 (PDF, 3 MB)

Parents' Perceptions of Occupational Fit

Anne Ardila Brenøe and Daphne Rutnam

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 71, August 2025 (PDF, 1 MB)

Defying Distance? The Provision of Medical Services in the Digital Age

Amanda Dahlstrand

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 70, July 2025 (PDF, 3 MB)

Die relative Immunität in der Schweiz

Hanna Stoll

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 69, May 2025 (PDF, 884 KB)

Multidimensional Skills on LinkedIn Profiles: Measuring Human Capital and the Gender Skill Gap

David Dorn, Florian Schoner, Moritz Seebacher, Lisa Simon, Ludger Woessmann

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 68, May 2025 (PDF, 3 MB)

Can Government Policies Moderate Backlash to Structural Change?

Reto Bürgisser, Silja Häusermann, Thomas Kurer, Susana de Pinho Tavares

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 67, May 2025 (PDF, 8 MB)

How Do Firms Respond to Parental Leave Absences?

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Urša Krenk, Andreas Steinhauer, Joseph Zweimüller

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 66, April 2025 (PDF, 8 MB)

Putting the `Finance` into `Public Finance`: A Theory of Capital Gains Taxation

Mark Aguiar, Benjamin Moll, Florian Scheuer

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 65, March 202 (PDF, 2 MB)5

Same-Sex Teacher Effects

Alexandra de Gendre, Jan Feld, Nicolàs Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 64, March 2025 (PDF, 5 MB)

The Labour Market Effects of Insurance for Disability Supports: Evidence from the National Disability Scheme in Australia

Garyn Tan

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 63, March 2025 (PDF, 5 MB)

Distributive politics and asymmetric participation

Victor Araùjo, Philipp Kerler

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 62, February 2025 (PDF, 1 MB)

Places versus People: The Ins and Outs of Labor Marekt Adjustment to Globalization

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson, Maggie R. Jones, Bradley Setzler

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 61, February 2025 (PDF, 2 MB)

The role of narratives in transferring rational choice models into political science

Catherine Herfeld, Alexandra Quack

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 60, January 2025 (PDF, 793 KB)

How Narratives Can Deidealize Models

Alexandra Quack

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 59, January 2025 (PDF, 530 KB)

Gender Identity and Economic Decision Making

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Zeynep Eyibak, Lea Heursen, Eva Ranehill, Roberto A. Weber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 58, December 2024 (PDF, 4 MB)

CEO-Firm Matches and Productivity in 42 Countries

Oriana Bandiera, Amanda Dahlstrand, Dávid László, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, Helena Schweiger

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 57, December 2024 (PDF, 3 MB)

Labour Market Impacts of the China Shock: Why the Tide of Globalisation Did Not Lift All Boats

David Dorn, Peter Levell

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 56, September 2024 (PDF, 1 MB)

Billionaire Superstar: Public Immage and Demand for Taxation

Ricardo Perez-Truglia, Jeffrey Yusof

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 55, July 2024 (PDF, 13 MB)

Seeking Opportunity in the Knowledge Economy: Moving Places, Moving Politics?

Valentina Consiglio, Thomas Kurer

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 54, June 2024 (PDF, 2 MB)

Carbon Pricing and Inflation Expectations: Evidence from France

Jannik Hensel, Giacomo Mangiante, Luca Moretti

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 53, June 2024 (PDF, 2 MB)

The Labor Market Effects of Housing Subsidies

Luca Moretti, Marco Schmid

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 52, June 2024 (PDF, 11 MB)

Carbon Pricing and Trade Diversion

Jannik Hensel, Giacomo Mangiante, Luca Moretti

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 51, June 2024 (PDF, 1 MB)

Who Should Get Money? Estimating Welfare Weights in the U.S.

Francesco Capozza, Krishna Srinivasan

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 50, February 2024 (PDF, 3 MB)

Beliefs about Inequality and the Nature of Support of Redistribution

Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr, Aljosha Henkel, Julien Senn

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 49, January 2024 (PDF, 1 MB)

Help for Heartland? The Employment and Electoral Effects of the Trump Tariffs in the United States

David Autor, Anne Beck, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 48, January 2024 (PDF, 7 MB)

Social Preferences and Redistributive Politics

Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr, Julien Senn

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 47, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Social Preferences Across Subject Pools: Students vs. General Population

Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr, Julien Senn

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 46, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

The Fundamental Properties, Stability and Predictive Power od Distributional Prefernces

Thomas Epper, Ernst Fehr, Julien Senn

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 45, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Social Preferences: Fundamental Characteristics and Economic Consequences

Gary Charness, Ernst Fehr

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 44, December 2023 (PDF, 3 MB)

Does a Progressive Waelth Tax Reduce Top Wealth Inequality? Evidence from Switzerland

Samira Marti, Isabel Martinez, Florian Scheuer

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 43, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Whose preferences matter for redistribution: Cross-country evidence

Michel André Maréchal, Alain Cohn, Jeffery Yusof, Raymond Fisman

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 42, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

How are Gender Norms Perceived?

Leonardo Bursztyn, Alexander W. Cappelen, Bertil Tungodden, Alessandra Voena, David Yanagizawa-Drott

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 41, December 2023 (PDF, 17 MB)

Introducing HESSS: Home Economics at Swiss Secondary Schools

Anja Grob, Garret Binding, Judith Spirig

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 40, December 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Born to Create and Lead? The Role of Cognitive Skills and Personality Traits for Entrepreneurship and Management

Tuomas Kari, Lukas Leucht, Matteo Tranchero, Joosua Virtanen

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 39, November 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

And Tracking for All: Causes and Effects of Pupil Sorting in Middle School

Tuomas Kari

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 38, November 2023 (PDF, 766 KB)

How perceived distributive effects shape labor market policy support

Reto Bürgisser, Fabienne Eisenring, Silja Häusermann

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 37, November 2023 (PDF, 3 MB)

The Causal Impact of Socio-Emotional Skills Training of Educational Success

Manuel Eisner, Denis Ribeaud, Giuseppe Sorrenti, Ulf Zölitz

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 36, November 2023 (PDF, 5 MB)

Richesse et pouvoir: les grandes fortunes zurichoises entre 1890 at 1952

Geoffroy Legentilhomme, Matthieu Leimgruber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 35, September 2023 (PDF, 3 MB)

Inequality Perceptions: A research agenda

Tarik Abou-Chadi, Silja Häusermann, Tabea Palmtag, Stefanie Walter

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 34, September 2023 (PDF, 910 KB)

Economic foundations of sociocultural politics: How new left and radical right voters think about inequality

Silja Häusermann, Tabea Palmtag, Delia Zollinger, Tarik Abou-Chadi, Stefanie Walter, Sarah Berkinshaw

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 33, September 2023 (PDF, 675 KB)

Does symbolic representation through class signalling appeal to voters? Evidence from a conjoint experiment

David Weisstanner, Sarah Engler

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 32, September 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Subnational governance in Ghana: a comparative assessment of data and performance

Daniel Chacu, Michael Danquah, Rachel M. Gisselquist

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 31, September 2023 (PDF, 13 MB)

Same-Sex Role Model Effects in Education

Alexandra de Gendre, Jan Feld, Nicolás Salamanca, Ulf Zölitz

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 30, September 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

Reconfiguring essential and discretionary public goods

Friedemann Bieber, Maurits de Jongh

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 29, September 2023 (PDF, 524 KB)

The Spillover Effects of Top Income Inequality

Joshua D. Gottlieb, David Hémous, Jeffrey Hicks, Morten Olsen

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 28, September 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

The EU and the Politics of Blacklisting Tax Havens

Vincent Arel-Bundock, Loriana Crasnic, Indra Römgens, Aanor Roland

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 27, July 2023 (PDF, 660 KB)

Asymmetric effects of group-based appeals: the case of urban rural divide

Lukas Haffert, Tabea Palmtag, Dominik Schraff

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 26, July 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

Trends in Worker Bargaining Power

Paolo Mengano

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 25, May 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

Social Networks and the Education Cleavage

Delia Zollinger, David Attewell

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 24, May 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

The News We Choose: Unfair Inequality and the Growing Success of Populist News

Michele Fenzl, Christine Stedtnitz

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 23, May 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

Media platforming and the normalisation of extreme right views

Diane Bolet, Florian Foos

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 22, May 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

The Race between Tax Enforcement and Tax Planning: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Chile

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 21, May 2023 (PDF, 9 MB)

Eigentum und Sachwaltung als Grundlagen einer unternehmerischen Kreislaufwirtschaft

Francis Cheneval

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 20, April 2023 (PDF, 663 KB)

The Labor Market Effects of Housing Subsidies: Evidence from Switzerland

Luca Moretti, Marco Schmid

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 19, April 2023 (PDF, 10 MB)

The Housing Market Effects of Public Transport Integration: Evidence from Geneva`s Léman Express

Marco Schmid

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 18, April 2023 (PDF, 17 MB)

Within-Country Inequality and the Patterns of Trade

Reto Foellmi, Marco Schmid, Josef Zweimüller

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 17, April 2023 (PDF, 2 MB)

The importance contingently public goods

Friedemann Bieber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 16, March 2023 (PDF, 18 MB)

Narratives of Backlash? Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses

Magdalena Breyer, Tabea Palmtag, Delia Zollinger

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 15, February 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Voter Reactions to Trajectories of Women`s Representations

Magdalena Breyer

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 14, February 2023 (PDF, 1 MB)

Mobilization versus Mitigation: How do cash transfers affect participation in elections?

Victor Araújo

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 13, February 2023 (PDF, 3 MB)

Ghosting the Tax Authority: Fake Firms and Tax Fraud in Ecuador

Paul Carrillo, Dave Donaldson, Dina Pomeranz, Monica Singhal

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 12, February 2023 (PDF, 4 MB)

Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers?

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Serena Canaan, Nikolaj A. Harmon, Heather N. Royer

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 11, January 2023 (PDF, 4 MB)

Trading Places: Mobility Responses of Native and Foreign-Born Adults to the China Trade Shock

David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 10, January 2023 (PDF, 20 MB)

Labour Justice in the Platform Economy

Friedemann Bieber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 9, January 2023 (PDF, 736 KB)

Job Mobility and Wage Growth between Regions

Julius Lüttge

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 8, November 2022 (PDF, 763 KB)

Urban Wage Premia and Heterogeneous Sorting

Julius Lüttge

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 7, November 2022 (PDF, 2 MB)

Occupational Change and Wage Inequality in Germany

Julius Lüttge

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 6, November 2022 (PDF, 2 MB)

Top wealth in Switzerland, 1890 - 1990. Debates, sources, and research perspectives

Matthieu Leimgruber, Geoffroy Legentilhomme

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 5, September 2022 (PDF, 1 MB)

Teaching Self-Regulation

Eva M. Berger, Ernst Fehr, Henning Hermes, Daniel Schunk, Kirsten Winkel

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 4, August 2022 (PDF, 8 MB)

Universal Basic Income: Inspecting the Mechanisms

Nir Jaimovich, Itay Saporta-Eksten, Ofer Setty, Yaniv Yedid-Levi

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 3, March 2022 (PDF, 1 MB)

Continuous Gender Identity and Economics

Anne Ardila Brenøe, Lea Heursen, Eva Ranehill, Roberto A. Weber

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 2, January 2022 (PDF, 1 MB)

Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US

David Dorn, Peter Levell

URPP Equality of Opportunity Discussion Paper Series No. 1, December 2021 (PDF, 2 MB)