Ifo Institute for Economic Research

How cultural norms affect attitudes toward immigration

We examine how cultural norms shape attitudes toward immigration. Using representative survey data on German university students from the 1990s, we exploit the stark cultural differences between former East and West Germany to study whether moving to a different cultural environm...

Populism and impatience

Abstract We develop a model where highly impatient voters are more likely than others to be subject to institutional frictions in the form of binding borrowing constraints. As impatient, borrowing-constrained voters cannot move long-term policy gains to the present, they turn to...

The Consequences of Promoting Data Literacy among Graduate Students

Abstract We study the impact of a data literacy program on graduate students’ skills and academic outcomes at a large Italian university. The program targets students expected to have weak quantitative skills and provides 120 h of training in data interpretation and processing al...