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 ]

Teaching and Teaching Assistance

• 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
• Teaching assistant in "Introduction to Political Economics" (23518-01; BA lecture): Spring 2023
• Tutorials lecturer in "Introduction to Game Theory and Experimental Economics" (23347-01; BA lecture): Fall 2021/20/19