Cluster-Veröffentlichungen: Working Papers

Die 'The Politics of Inequality' Working Papers dienen zur Weitergabe von Forschungsergebnissen aus der laufenden Arbeit vor der eigentlichen Veröffentlichung. Aufnahme eines Papiers in die Working Paper-Reihe ist nicht gleichbedeutend mit einer Veröffentlichung und sollte für die Veröffentlichung in einem anderen Organ keinen Hinderungsgrund darstellen. Die Working Papers, die vom Cluster herausgebracht werden, repräsentieren die Ansichten der betreffenden Autorschaft, nicht des Clusters als Ganzem.

Working Paper Series Nº 42 | October 2024
Oliver Schlenker (2024): The Deadly Consequences of Labor Scarcity : Evidence from Hospitals

This paper estimates the impact of nursing shortages in hospitals on healthcare provision and patient outcomes by exploiting a strong and stable appreciation of the Swiss franc in 2011. Due to collective bargaining  hindering wage adjustments in the German healthcare sector, cross-border wage differentials increased and led to a significant outflow of German registered nurses to Switzerland, causing a 12.5% reduction in nurse staffing rates in German hospitals near the border. Using a matched difference-in-differences approach, I find that hospitals responded by decreasing care intensity, leading to a 12% decrease in surgeries. Although hospitals are increasingly performing triage, also patients with high medical needs – such as elderly and emergency cases – face a reduction in care and, consequently, a stark increase in mortality rates, resulting in a measurable decline in regional life expectancy.


Working Paper Series Nº 41 | October 2024

Eduard Brüll; Davud Rostam-Afschar; Oliver Schlenker (2024): Cut Off from New Competition: Threat of Entry and Health Care Quality

We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general practitioners (GPs). We leverage Germany’s needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile novel data covering all German primary care regions and up to 30,000 GP-level observations from 2014 to 2019. Reduced threat of entry lowers patient satisfaction for incumbent GPs without nearby competitors but not in areas with competitors. We find no effects on working hours or quality measures at the regional level including hospitalizations and mortality.


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Working Paper Series Nº 40 | Oktober 2024

Eva Thomann; Jana Gómez Díaz; Jonas Dieterich; Dominik Suhner; Michelle Selensky; Jannis Griem (2024): Ausmaß, Ursachen und Folgen der Überlastung der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Baden-Württemberg und Rheinland-Pfalz: Eine Studie der Arbeitsgruppe für Verwaltungswissenschaft der Universität Konstanz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Südwestrundfunk (Schlussbericht)

Die Studie erhebt das Ausmaß, die Ursachen und Folgen einer möglichen Überlastung der öffentlichen Verwaltung in Baden-Württemberg und Rheinland-Pfalz aus Sicht der Behörden. Die Daten wurden in einer repräsentativen Online-Verwaltungsumfrage in den Bundesländern Baden-Württemberg (N=676) und Rheinland-Pfalz (N=211) erhoben, welche vom Südwestrundfunk unter der wissenschaftlichen Anleitung der Arbeitsgruppe Verwaltungswissenschaft der Universität Konstanz im ersten Quartal des Jahres 2024 durchgeführt wurde. Hierzu wurden sechs Arten von Behörden berücksichtigt: Bürgerbüros, Ausländerbehörden, Sozialämter, Baubehörden, Jugendämter und Kfz-Zulassungsstellen.


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Working Paper Series Nº 31-39

Working Paper Series Nº 39 | August 2024
Prateek Chandra Bhan; Jinglin Wen (2024): Role Models Among Us: Experimental Evidence on Inspirations and Gender Disparities Set in Stones

Working Paper Series Nº 38 | August 2024
Prateek Chandra Bhan; Judith Vornberger; Jinglin Wen (2024): Reflection and Mental Health: Experimental Evidence from Germany

Working Paper Series Nº 37 | August 2024
Rebecca Strauch; Viktoria Jansesberger; Sebastian Koos; Gabriele Spilker (2024): Voices of Change in the Global South: Understanding the Dynamics of Environmental Protest

Working Paper Series Nº 36 | July 2024
Eva Thomann; Carolin Hjort Rapp; Katharina Ziegler; Jana Gómez Díaz (2024): Modelling the Effect of Passive Representation and Intersectionality on Perceived Bureaucratic Discrimination

Working Paper Series Nº 35 | July 2024
Claudia Diehl; Katja Pomianowicz; Thomas Hinz (2024): On the Wrong Track? Perceived Track Mismatch Among Ethnic Minority and Majority Students in the German Educational System

Working Paper Series Nº 34 | July 2024
Stefanie Rueß; Gerald Schneider; Jan Vogler (2024): Priming and Prejudice: Experimental Evidence on Negative News Frames and Discrimination in German Welfare Offices

Working Paper Series Nº 33 | July 2024
Claudia Diehl; Julia Lang; Susanne Strauß; Ole Brüggemann,(2024): Is My Wage Fair? Validating Fairness Perceptions Among Women and Men

Working Paper Series Nº 32 | July 2024
Lea Haiges; Christina Isabel Zuber (2024): Within, Rather than Against the State? How Indigenous Movements in Ecuador and Peru Engage with Elections

Working Paper Series Nº 31 | July 2024
Alexander Horn; Martin Haselmayer; Jonathan Klüser (2024): Parties’ (Non)Responses to Levels and Changes of Inequality : Reconciling Rival Views Using New Data on Equality Concepts

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Working Paper Series Nº 30 | July 2024
Segun T. Aroyehun; Almog Simchon; Fabio Carrella; Jana Lasser; Stephan Lewandowsky; David García (2024): Computational Analysis of US Congressional Speeches Reveals a Shift from Evidence to Intuition

Working Paper Series Nº 29 | July 2024
Susanne Strauß; Ole Brüggemann; Julia Lang (2024): Who Perceives Lower Wages for Women to be Fair? How Perceptions of the Fairness of Men’s and Women’s Wages Vary by Firm and Workplace Characteristics

Working Paper Series Nº 28 | July 2024
Viktoria Jansesberger (2024): Storms, Floods, Landslides and Elections in India’s Growing Metropolises : Hotbeds for Political Protest?

Working Paper Series Nº 27 | July 2024
Viktoria Jansesberger; Gabriele Spilker (2024): Silencing Dissent in the Wake of Catastrophe? An Examination of the Repression Dynamics Following Weather-Related Rapid-Onset Events in Autocracies

Working Paper Series Nº 26 | July 2024
Sophia Stutzmann (2024): The Electoral Consequences of the Coal Phase-out in Germany

Working Paper Series Nº 25 | July 2024
Sebastian Findeisen; Wolfgang Dauth; Oliver Schlenker (2024): Organized Labor Versus Robots? Evidence from Micro Data

Working Paper Series Nº 24 | July 2024
Friedrich Breyer; Maj-Britt Sterba (2024): Are Taxes or User-Fees more Popular among Politicians? The Case of Childcare

Working Paper Series Nº 23 | June 2024
Friedrich Breyer; Christian Breunig; Mark Kapteina; Guido Schwerdt; Maj-Britt Sterba (2024): Between Beveridge and Bismarck: Preferences for Redistribution through Public Pensions

Working Paper Series Nº 22 | June 2024
Luna Bellani; Kattalina Berriochoa; Mark Kapteina; Guido Schwerdt (2024): Information Provision and Support for Inheritance Taxation: Evidence from a Representative Survey Experiment in Germany

Working Paper Series Nº 21 | May 2024
Marius R. Busemeyer; Nathalie Giger; Nadja Wehl (2024): Individual Ideology and Biased Perceptions of Income

Working Paper Series Nº 20 | April 2024
Julian Schuessler; Thomas Hinz; Dirk Leuffen; Peter Selb(2024): Income, Identity, and International Redistribution : Evidence from the European Union

Working Paper Series N° 19 | March 2024
Melanie Arntz; Sebastian Findeisen; Stephan Maurer; Oliver Schlenker (2024): Are We Yet Sick of New Technologies? : The Unequal Health Effects of Digitalization

Working Paper Series N° 18 | March 2024
Kattalina M. Berriochoa; Marius R. Busemeyer (2024): Local Knowledge Economies, Mobility Perceptions and Support for Right-Wing Populist Parties: New Survey Evidence for the Case of Germany

Working Paper Series N° 17 | March 2024
Thomas Hinz; Anna Marczuk; Frank Multrus (2024): Student Opinions on the Escalation of Violence in Israel and Gaza and Antisemitism at German Universities

Working Paper Series N° 16 | March 2024
Thomas Hinz; Anna Marczuk; Frank Multrus (2024): Studentisches Meinungsklima zur Gewalteskalation in Israel und Gaza und Antisemitismus an deutschen Hochschulen

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Working Paper Series N° 15 | February 2024
Henning Hermes; Philipp Lergetporer; Fabian Mierisch; Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold (2024): Does Information about Inequality and Discrimination in Early Child Care Affect Policy Preferences?

Working Paper Series N° 14 | August 2023
Alessandro Di Nola; Luke Haywood; Haomin Wang (2023): Gendered Effects of the Minimum Wage

Working Paper Series N° 13 | April 2023 
Almuth Scholl (2023): The Politics of Redistribution and Sovereign Default

Working Paper Series N° 12 | January 2023 
Stefan Maurer; Guido Schwerdt; Simon Wiederhold (2023): Do Role Models Matter in Large Classes? New Evidence on Gender Match Effects in Higher Education

Working Paper Series N° 11  |  December 2022
Luna Bellani; Ariane Bertogg; Nevena Kulic; Susanne Strauß (2022): How information about inequality impacts support for school closure policies. Evidence from the pandemic

Working Paper Series N° 10 | June 2022
Nils B. Weidmann (2022): Esoteric Beliefs and Opposition to Corona Restrictions

Working Paper Series N° 09 | March 2022
Eric A. Hanushek; Babs Jacobs; Guido Schwerdt; Rolf van der Velden; Stan Vermeulen; Simon Wiederhold (2022): The Intergenerational Transmission of Cognitive Skills : An Investigation of the Causal Impact of Families on Student Outcomes

Working Paper Series N° 08 | January 2022
Luna Bellani; Andrea Fazio; Francesco Scervini (2022): Collective Negative Shocks and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany

Working Paper Series N° 07 | December 2021
Ariane Bertogg; Sebastian Koos (2021): Changes of Social Networks during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Who is affected and what are its Consequences for Psychological Strain?

Working Paper Series N° 06 | October 2021
Erik Hornung; Guido Schwerdt; Maurizio Strazzeri (2021): Religious practice and student performance: Evidence from Ramadan fasting

Working Paper Series N° 05 | August 2021
Lidwina Gundacker; Yuliya Kosyakova; Gerald Schneider (2021): Global norms, regional practices: Taste-based and statistical discrimination in German asylum decision-making

Working Paper Series N° 04 | July 2021
Majed Dodin; Sebastian Findeisen; Lukas Henkel; Dominik Sachs; Paul Schüle (2021): Social Mobility in Germany

Working Paper Series Nº 03 | June 2021
Luna Bellani; Nona Bledow; Marius R. Busemeyer; Guido Schwerdt (2021): Perception of Inequality and Social Mobility in Germany: evidence from the Inequality Barometer

Working Paper Series Nº 02 | May 2021:
Bentley Schieckoff; Maximilian Sprengholz (2021): The labor market integration of immigrant women in Europe: context, theory and evidence

Working Paper Series Nº 01 | April 2021
Marius R. Busemeyer (2021): Health care attitudes and institutional trust during the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from the case of Germany