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complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …
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The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
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complementary effect of income on social ties. The opposite is true with regards to social ties held for more instrumental reasons …
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This paper concerns the problem of inferring the effects of covariates on intergenerational income mobility, i.e. on … of mobility- (i) traditional transition probability of movement across income quantiles over generations and (ii) a new …
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The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
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freedom of choice, low levels of democratization, unemployment, low income, etc. Second, considering people's adaptation to …
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studies the reverse. Using surveys of lottery winners, we analyze the effects of unearned income on the Big Five personality … traits. After correcting for potential endogeneity problems from prize sizes, we find that unearned income improves traits …. -- noncognitive skills ; personality traits ; lottery winners ; instrumental variables ; unearned income …
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