Beatrix Eugster

Beatrix Eugster

Title

Prof. PhD

Last Name

Eugster

First name

Beatrix

Email

beatrix.eugster@unisg.ch

Phone

+41 71 224 31 79

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Peers with special needs: Effects and policies

(MIT Press, 2020)
Balestra, Simone
;
Eugster, Beatrix
;
Liebert, Helge

Type: journal article

Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics

URL: https://doi.org/10.1162/rest_a_00960

DOI: 10.1162/rest_a_00960

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/112553

Scopus© Citations 7
Summer-born struggle: The effect of school starting age on health, education, and work

(Wiley, 2020)
Balestra, Simone
;
Eugster, Beatrix
;
Liebert, Helge

Type: journal article

Journal: Health Economics

Volume: 29

Issue: 5

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.4005

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/112554
Culture and Taxes

(Univ. Press, 2019-02)
Eugster, Beatrix
;
Parchet, Raphael

We propose a difference-in-differences strategy to identify the existence of interjurisdictional tax competition. Our strategy rests on differences between desired tax levels determined by culture-specific preferences and equilibrium tax levels determined by fiscal externalities and by preferences. While preferences differ systematically between French-speaking and German-speaking Swiss municipalities, local income tax burdens exhibit smooth spatial gradients. To qualify the empirical evidence, we develop a theoretical model of strategic tax setting by local governments that anticipate the effects of taxes on the per capita income and the median “hedonic” income, two inextricable consequences of the sorting of heterogeneous individuals.

Type: journal article

Journal: Journal of Political Economy

Volume: 127

Issue: 1

DOI: 10.1086/700760

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/98927

Scopus© Citations 30
Culture, Work Attitudes and Job Search: Evidence from the Swiss Language Border

(Oxford University Press, 2017-10)
Eugster, Beatrix
;
Lalive, Rafael
;
Steinhauer, Andreas
;
Zweimüller, Josef

Unemployment varies across space and in time. Can attitudes towards work explain some of these differences? We study job search durations along the Swiss language border, sharply separating Romance language speakers from German speakers. According to surveys and voting results, the language border separates two social groups with different cultural background and attitudes towards work. Despite similar local labor markets and identical institutions, Romance language speakers search for work almost seven weeks (or 22%) longer than their German speaking neighbors. This is a quantitatively large effect, comparable to a large change in unemployment insurance generosity.

Type: journal article

Journal: Journal of the European Economic Association

Volume: 15

Issue: 5

DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvw024

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/101910

Scopus© Citations 49
The Demand for Social Insurance: Does Culture Matter?

(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-11-01)
Eugster, Beatrix
;
Lalive, Rafael
;
Steinhauer, Andreas
;
Zweimüller, Josef

Does culture shape the demand for social insurance against risks to health and work? We study this issue across language groups in Switzerland where a language border sharply separates social groups at identical actual levels of publicly provided social insurance. We find substantially stronger support for expansions of social insurance among residents of French, Italian or Romansh-speaking language border municipalities compared with their German-speaking neighbours in adjacent municipalities. Informal insurance does not vary enough to explain stark differences in social insurance but differences in ideology and segmented media markets potentially contribute to the discrepancy in demand for social insurance.

Type: journal article

Journal: The Economic Journal

Volume: 121

Issue: 556

DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2011.02479.x

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/93304

Scopus© Citations 64
Child health and parental labor market outcomes

( 2023-02-16)
Chuard, Caroline
;
Eugster, Beatrix

Type: conference speech

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/107752

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