IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12451

Cristina Miragaya-Casillas, Raimundo Aguayo-Estremera, Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde

{"title":"Are Business Students More Self-Interested Than Law Students? A Longitudinal Study","authors":"Cristina Miragaya-Casillas, Raimundo Aguayo-Estremera, Alberto Ruiz-Villaverde","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12451","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Substantial academic debate exists regarding whether students with economics training exhibit distinct behavioral patterns that differentiate them from students in other academic disciplines. On one hand, the debate remains open due to the heterogeneity of the results. On the other hand, establishing the reasons for these possible differences is complicated. The existing academic literature proposes two explanatory hypotheses: self-selection and indoctrination. Most of the current results support a self-selection effect and reject indoctrination. Despite this, most studies present methodological limitations that should be considered. This study aims to address and overcome these limitations. To enhance our understanding of the potential effects stemming from economic training, it contributes to the existing literature in three main ways: Firstly, it conducts a longitudinal study of self- and other-interested behavior in university students following a standard microeconomics course. Secondly, it employs a novel instrument to measure self- and other-interest, with strong psychometric properties of validity and reliability. Thirdly, the sample is limited to business and law students to ensure homogeneity in the comparison. Our results suggest the existence of behavioral differences, mainly due to the self-selection effect. No evidence was found to suggest an indoctrination effect from the study of microeconomics.</p>","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"78 3","pages":"922-933"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12451","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144524767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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To Equality: Gendered Outcomes, Economic Freedom & Gender Laws 迈向平等：性别结果、经济自由与性别法律

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-03-21 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12449

Nabamita Dutta, Adam Stivers, Russell S. Sobel

{"title":"To Equality: Gendered Outcomes, Economic Freedom & Gender Laws","authors":"Nabamita Dutta, Adam Stivers, Russell S. Sobel","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12449","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>While prior literature has found that greater economic freedom improves economic growth, development, and productive entrepreneurship, the literature is mixed on economic freedom's impact on gender outcomes. We add to this literature by exploring several measures of gender outcome gaps in employment, financial inclusion, and education utilizing the women, business, and law index from the World Bank to proxy for the strength of legal institutions for women. Employing the Fraser Institute's economic freedom of the world index as our measure of economic institutions, our results show that greater economic freedom only results in improved (relative) gender outcomes when strong legal institutions are available to women. Thus, while improving economic freedom as a path to development and growth is important, the benefits for gender outcomes clearly depend upon the extent to which a country's underlying laws and legal institutions provide equal treatment to women and men. In areas where legal institutions are most discriminatory against women, higher economic freedom actually seems to have a negative impact on (relative) gender outcomes. We test the robustness of our results and examine the findings for (relative) gender equality in non-market areas such as political representation and health outcomes.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"78 3","pages":"896-921"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-03-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Citizenship, Math and Gender: Exploring Immigrant Students' Choice of Majors 公民身份、数学与性别：移民学生的专业选择

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-03-10 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12447

Marina Murat

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Evaluating Chef's Creativity and Restaurant Quality: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Gastronomic Guides in the Italian Fine-Dining Market 评价厨师的创造力和餐厅质量：意大利美食市场中美食指南作用的实证分析

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-03-06 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12446

Francesco Angelini, Massimiliano Castellani, Pierpaolo Pattitoni

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Interdependent Preferences for Financing and Providing Public Goods—The Case of National Defense 融资和提供公共产品的相互依赖偏好——以国防为例

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12442

Armin A. Bolouri, Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari

{"title":"Interdependent Preferences for Financing and Providing Public Goods—The Case of National Defense","authors":"Armin A. Bolouri, Tim Lohse, Salmai Qari","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12442","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Governments often choose deficit financing over budget cuts or tax increases to fund public goods, driven by the political unpopularity of the latter options. This study investigates the potential trade-off between maintaining prudent public finances and securing voter support by analyzing the relationship between preferences for the provision and financing of public goods. We use a survey-based discrete choice experiment with 1808 respondents representative of the German population. Focusing on national defense as a case study, our findings reveal a strong interdependence between spending and financing preferences: individuals who highly value defense readiness and are aware of its costs tend to support deficit-neutral budgeting, favoring tax increases to finance budget expansions. Conversely, those less supportive of defense expenditure prefer debt issuance and budget consolidation, avoiding immediate cost-bearing. Additionally, preferences vary by political and sociodemographic characteristics. These results indicate that citizens' preferences are interdependent, influenced by both revenues and expenditures in the public budget. Moreover, they suggest that prudent fiscal policies aligned with public support—such as tax-based financing for defense—may be politically feasible. Policymakers can leverage these insights to design fiscal strategies that reflect voter priorities, thereby reducing the risk of electoral backlash and promoting sustainable public finances.</p>","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"78 3","pages":"807-821"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/kykl.12442","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perceptions, Contagion, and Civil Unrest 观念、传染和内乱

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12443

Christophe Abi-Nassif, Asif Mohammed Islam, Daniel Lederman

{"title":"Perceptions, Contagion, and Civil Unrest","authors":"Christophe Abi-Nassif, Asif Mohammed Islam, Daniel Lederman","doi":"10.1111/kykl.12443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12443","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper investigates the impact of citizens' perceptions of economic and political conditions on nonviolent uprisings. For a global sample of high-income (Europe) and developing economies (Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, and Middle East and North Africa), on average, negative perceptions of political conditions have a significant positive effect on the number of anti-government protests and general strikes while negative perceptions of economic conditions do not, even after accounting for actual economic conditions and the quality of governance. This holds for European and high-income countries but not for developing economies where both economic and political perceptions matter. The international contagion of protests attenuates this regional heterogeneity, possibly implying that in Europe, the incidence of uprisings in nearby countries tends to generate protests at home through its effect on political perceptions. This invites the possibility of countries perennially facing vicious cycles of protests. Overall, the effects of political perceptions and protest contagion are robust to the inclusion of numerous control variables, seemingly valid instrumental variables, alternative count-data estimators, and sample composition.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47739,"journal":{"name":"Kyklos","volume":"78 3","pages":"822-851"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144525125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Spatial Spillover Effects of Corruption Controls: Focusing on the Public Sector in Vietnam 腐败控制的空间溢出效应：以越南公共部门为例

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12445

Nhan Thanh Trinh, Khoa Anh Trinh

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Public Debt and the Income Share of the Top One Percent: The Italian Case, 1974–2019 公共债务和收入最高的1%的收入份额：1974-2019年的意大利案例

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-02-13 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12444

Aggela Papadopoulou

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Effects of Teaching Practices on Life Satisfaction and Test Scores: Evidence From the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) 教学实践对生活满意度和考试成绩的影响：来自国际学生评估项目（PISA）的证据

IF 1.5 3区经济学

Kyklos Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1111/kykl.12441

Kelsey J. O'Connor, Stefano Bartolini

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Statute of Limitations for Tax Evasion 逃税的诉讼时效