开始:VCALENDAR版本:2.0 PRODID: / /学院Labor Economics//Zope//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU DTSTART:19810329T020000 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU DTSTART:19961027T030000 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17181239832800@conference.iza.org LOCATION;CHARSET=UTF-8: DESCRIPTION:Two decades of re-unification have done less than expected to bring down economic disparities between East and West Germany. Since formal institutions have been equalized between East and West, any institutional explanation for enduring divergence has to lie in norms, beliefs, and values. An oft-heard argument is that Germany suffers from a �wall in the head� that continues to feed differences in economic performance between East and West. The question is whether such structural differences in norms and values indeed exist in such a way that they can explain the gap in economic performance. The little research that has been done provides ambiguous results (Shiller et al. AER, 1991; Corneo and Gr�ner JPUBE, 2002; Alesina and Fuchs-Sch�ndeln AER, 2007). This paper presents a more direct assessment of the differences in preferences between East and West Germans by studying the structure of happiness and analyze how the East and the West differentially transform situational fact ors into well-being. Our analysis shows that preferences vary somewhat between East and West Germans, but that, if anything, the values entertained by East Germans are more usually associated with economic performance than those of Westerners. We conclude that the �wall in the head�-thesis appears to be a myth. \n SEQUENCE:1 X-APPLE-TRAVEL-ADVISORY-BEHAVIOR:AUTOMATIC SUMMARY:IZA Internal Seminar: How united is Germany? Economic values in East and West since reunification by Robbert Maseland (Radboud University Nijmegen) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20090416T121500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:T000000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR