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Current Position

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

Publications

• Prepared bookchapter: Stutzer, Alois, Benjamin Jansen und Tobias Schib (2024). Democracy and Wellbeing. In Marie Briguglio, Natalia V. Czap and Kate Laffan (eds.), Wellbeing and Policy: Evidence for Action. Forthcoming with Routledge.

Working Papers

• Jansen, Benjamin and Alois Stutzer (2024). Affective Partisan Polarization and Citizens’ Attitudes and Behavior in Swiss Democracy. WWZ Working Paper No. 2024/04. [ link | paper | updated version ]

Work in Progress

• Party cleavages and prototypical party affect patterns in Switzerland (with Alois Stutzer)
• In planning: mobility and rental housing markets regulations

Newspaper Articels

• 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 ]

Uni News

• Emch, Céline (2024). Im Fokus: Benjamin Jansen untersucht, wie emotional polarisiert die Schweiz ist. Uni News, July 25, 2024. [ link ]
• Stutzer, Alois and Benjamin Jansen (2024). Wie hat sich die affektive Polarisierung in der Schweiz entwickelt? WWZ Faculty Blog, May 22, 2024. [ link ]

CV

• LinkedIn: Profile | CV
• Detailed CV available upon request.