Lisa Windsteiger
Biographic Data
| ID | 5737396 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Windsteiger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Windsteiger |
| SIGNATURE | WINDSTEIGER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2536-5367 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. We find that highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent the displacement of low‐income tenants increases agreement. However, while our treatments shift support for the policy into the hypothesized direction, the effect siz…
Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments
We investigate the causal nexus between pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments. We exploit the disruption brought about by the Covid‐19 outbreak to randomly provide survey respondents with information on the economic or health consequences of the pandemic. Overall, we find that pessimistic information about the economic outlook reinforces overall adversity to immigration and the wish to exclude immigrants from access to healthcare. Thi…
Immigration vs. poverty
Curtailment of Civil Liberties and Subjective Life Satisfaction
This analysis focuses on the lockdown measures in the context of the Covid-19 crisis in Spring 2020 in Germany. In a randomized survey experiment, respondents were asked to evaluate their current life satisfaction after being provided with varying degrees of information about the lethality of Covid-19. We use reactance as a measure of the intensity of a preference for freedom to explain the variation in the observed subjective life satisfaction l…
Reducing Sexual Orientation Discrimination
We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti‐gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that…
Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments
We investigate the causal nexus between pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments. We exploit the disruption brought about by the Covid‐19 outbreak to randomly provide survey respondents with information on the economic or health consequences of the pandemic. Overall, we find that pessimistic information about the economic outlook reinforces overall adversity to immigration and the wish to exclude immigrants from access to healthcare. Thi…
Reducing Sexual Orientation Discrimination
We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti‐gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that…
Curtailment of Civil Liberties and Subjective Life Satisfaction
This analysis focuses on the lockdown measures in the context of the Covid-19 crisis in Spring 2020 in Germany. In a randomized survey experiment, respondents were asked to evaluate their current life satisfaction after being provided with varying degrees of information about the lethality of Covid-19. We use reactance as a measure of the intensity of a preference for freedom to explain the variation in the observed subjective life satisfaction l…
Reducing Sexual Orientation Discrimination
We study basic information treatments regarding sexual orientation using randomized experiments in three countries with strong and widespread anti‐gay attitudes: Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine. Participants who received information about the economic costs to society of sexual orientation discrimination were significantly more likely than those in a control group to support equal employment opportunities based on sexual orientation. Information that…
Immigration vs. poverty
Pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments
We investigate the causal nexus between pandemic distress and anti‐immigration sentiments. We exploit the disruption brought about by the Covid‐19 outbreak to randomly provide survey respondents with information on the economic or health consequences of the pandemic. Overall, we find that pessimistic information about the economic outlook reinforces overall adversity to immigration and the wish to exclude immigrants from access to healthcare. Thi…
Which factors affect public support for economic policies? Evidence from a survey experiment about rent control in Germany
We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. We find that highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents' agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent the displacement of low‐income tenants increases agreement. However, while our treatments shift support for the policy into the hypothesized direction, the effect siz…
Economics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Demographic economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Development economics (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 work) · Business (1 work)