Jan Schumacher's Personal Homepage
Research Assistant at the University of Regensburg
Research
Fields of Interest
Public Economics and Redistribution: Cash versus In-Kind Transfers, Public Provision of Private Goods
Political Economy of the Welfare State
Environmental Economics
Work in Progress
Redistribution Under Asymmetric Information: When Quality Laws and the Public Provision of Private Goods Have Identical Effects
(May 2007)
The tragedy (or virtue?) of in-kind redistribution: How the poor pays for the rich's status concerns
(BGPE Discussion Paper No. 39)
Discounting and Welfare Analysis Over Time: Choosing the 'eta'
(CESifo Working Paper No. 2230, joint with Wolfgang Buchholz)
Discounting the Long-Distant Future: A Simple Explanation for the Weitzman-Gollier-Puzzle
(CESifo Working Paper No. 2357, joint with Wolfgang Buchholz)
Publications
Welfare State Retrenchment: The Partisan Effect Revisited
in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 426-444 (joint with Bruno Amable and Donatella Gatti), 2006
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