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Bouton, Laurent; Cagé, Julia; Dewitte, Edgard; Pons, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and 2020. Thanks to the reporting requirements of online...

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Failing Just Fine : Assessing Careers of Venture Capital-backed Entrepreneurs Via a Non-Wage Measure

Amornsiripanitch, Natee; Gompers, Paul A.; Hu, George; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper proposes a non-pecuniary measure of career achievement, Seniority. Based on a database of over 5 million resumes, this metric exploits the variation in job titles and how long they take to attain. When non-monetary factors influence career choice, inference benefits from the use of...

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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we study if exposure to the institutions of trade partners changes individuals' attitudes towards democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 to 2015, and exploit the improvement in air, relative to...

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Understanding of Trade

Stantcheva, Stefanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

I study how people understand and reason about trade and which factors shape their views on trade policy. I design and run large-scale surveys and experiments in the U.S. to elicit respondents' knowledge and understanding of trade. I also ask about their perceived economic gains and...

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Voting on a Trade Agreement : Firm Networks and Attitudes Toward Openness

Van Patten, Diana; Méndez, Esteban - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We exploit a natural experiment to study the extent to which popular attitudes toward trade are driven by economic fundamentals. In 2007, Costa Rica put a free trade agreement (FTA) to a national referendum. With a single question on the ballot, 59% of Costa Rican adult citizens cast a vote on...

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Bayesian Persuasion with Lie Detection

Ederer, Florian; Min, Weicheng - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

How does lie detection constrain the potential for one person to persuade another to change her action? We consider a model of Bayesian persuasion in which the Receiver can detect lies with positive probability. We show that the Sender lies more when the lie detection probability increases. As...

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The Political Effects of Immigration : Culture or Economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We review the growing literature on the political economy of immigration. First, we discuss the effects of immigration on a wide range of political and social outcomes. The existing evidence suggests that immigrants often, but not always, trigger backlash, increasing support for anti-immigrant...

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Bottlenecks for Evidence Adoption

Della Vigna, Stefano; Kim, Woojin; Linos, Elizabeth - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Governments increasingly use RCTs to test innovations before scale up. Yet, we know little about whether and how they incorporate the results of the experiments into policy-making. We follow up with 67 U.S. city departments which collectively ran 73 RCTs in collaboration with a national Nudge...

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Politics At Work

Colonnelli, Emanuele; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002-2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business...

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Technology, Unemployment, and Inflation

Mincer, Jacob - 2000

We explore the response of employment (unemployment) skill differentials to skill-biased shifts in demand touched off … by the new and spreading technologies. We find that skill differentials in unemployment follow at least in part the same … differences defined by technology. In the aggregate time series relative unemployment is defined by educational unemployment …

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