We have explored the light induced dynamics in superfluid helium nanodroplets with wide-angle scattering in a pump-probe measurement scheme. The droplets are doped with xenon atoms to facilitate the ignition of a nanoplasma through irradiation with near-infrared laser pulses. After a variable time delay of up to 800 ps, we image the subsequent dynamics using intense extreme ultraviolet pulses from the FERMI free-electron laser. The recorded ...

We investigate the effect of women’s political leadership in local government on homicide and violence against women. Using a regression discontinuity design we compare Brazilian municipalities where a female candidate barely won to those where a female candidate barely lost mayoral elections. Having a female mayor reduces homicide rate of women by 20% and violence (physical, psychological, sexual) by 40%. These results are not due to ...

Especially in highly diversified education systems in which employers can choose among qualified applicants with different educational degrees, education is an important signal of an applicant’s unobserved characteristics. Using a factorial survey experiment among employers in Switzerland, we investigate their preferences regarding applicants’ education in the first stage of a hiring process. We find that for entry-level positions, ...

Decision-makers rely on experts who often disagree. Aversion to expert disagreement is usually modeled with ambiguity-averse preferences which rest on a unanimity principle: if all experts consider one choice better than another, so should the decision-maker. Such unanimity among experts however can be spurious, masking substantial disagreement on the underlying reasons. We introduce a novel notion of disagreement aversion to distinguish ...