Discussion Paper Series

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, 2 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)