Politicians' social welfare criteria - An experiment with German legislators
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Positive welfare economics; politicians; preference aggregation; paternalism;All these keywords.
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- C9 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments
- D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EXP-2023-08-21 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-POL-2023-08-21 (Positive Political Economics)
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