Benjamin Jansen
Assistent / Doktorand (Politische Ökonomie)
Büro
Peter Merian-Weg 6
4052
Basel
Schweiz
I am a Ph.D. student at the Department of Political Economics of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
Fields of Interest
- Political Economics
- Social Identy and Cleavage Theory
- Economics of Happiness
- Rental housing markets
- Applied econometrics
Education
- University of Basel, MSc in Business and Economics, Major in Markets and Public Policy
- University of Basel, BA in Business and Economics
Office number : 4.45.1
Publications
Prepared bookchapter: Stutzer, A., Jansen, B and Schib T. (2024). "Democracy and Wellbeing". in M. Briguglio, N.V. Czap and K. Laffan (eds.), Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action. Forthcoming with Routledge.
Working Papers
Work in Progress
- Tenants mobility and rental housing markets regulations in Switzerland
Newspaper Articles
- Thommen, David (2025). Bei uns sind Gegner keine Feinde. Volksstimme, January 4, 2025. [ link ]
- von Wyl, Benjamin und Vera Leysinger (2024). Trump, Biden und der Hass: Wie US-Amerikaner:innen in der Schweiz die Polarisierung erleben. Swissinfo, July 17, 2024. [ link ]
- Jansen, Benjamin and Alois Stutzer (2024). Emotionale Polarisierung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger in der Schweiz seit zwei Jahrzehnten stabil. DeFacto, June 6, 2024. [ link ]
- Morell, Marco (2024). In der Schweiz sind politische Gräben weniger tief als anderswo. SRF 4 News, May 5, 2024. [ link ]
- Stutzer, Alois and Benjamin Jansen (2023). Wie Institutionen den sozialen Zusammenhalt fördern. Die Volkswirtschaft, December 12, 2023, pp. 26-29. [ link ]
Teaching and Teaching Assistance
- Teaching assistant in "Introduction to Political Economics" (23518-01; BA lecture): Spring 2023/25
- Assistant supervisor in "Bachelor's thesis in Public Choice and Public Economics" (24261-01; BA seminar): Fall 2024
- Supervisor of seminar papers in "Scientific Writing II: Writing and Presenting a Seminar Paper" (65935-01; BA seminar): Fall 2024
- Assistant supervisor of master's thesis in Politcial Economics on "Affective Polarization and Electoral Accountability": Spring 2024
- Assistant supervisor in "Interuniversity masterseminar with the Universität Fribourg: Economic and Fiscal Policy" (32926-01; MSc seminar): Spring 2024
- Supervisor of seminar papers in "Scientific Writing I: Fundamentals" (23522-01; BA seminar): Spring 2024/23
- Teaching assistant in "Political Economics" (15965-01; MSc lecture): Fall 2023
- Tutorials lecturer in "Introduction to Game Theory and Experimental Economics" (23347-01; BA lecture): Fall 2021/20/19