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Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...
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Exploiting regression discontinuity designs in Brazilian, Indian, and Canadian first-past-the-post elections, we document that second-place candidates are substantially more likely than close third-place candidates to run in, and win, subsequent elections. Since both candidates lost the election...
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Daylight Savings Time was adopted for the purposes of reducing energy consumption, but recent studies have cast some … doubt on whether it still serves this purpose effectively. This study estimates the effect of Daylight Savings Time on … electricity demand in Ontario, Canada. It uses a quasi-experimental approach, by leveraging the fact that the transition to DST …
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In this paper I argue that early action policies that focus on early actual emission reductions will tend to distort abatement investment decisions and thereby inflate the national compliance cost of a greenhouse gas emissions reduction target. Compliance cost savings stem from well-planned...
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and finance capitalism from the perspective of time and temporality. Despite its function as a global commodity, cricket … inserts a flow of postcolonial time into the temporal streams of transnational market culture, neoliberalism, and the … juxtaposes the deviant temporal power of cricket with the time structures of finance capitalism to illustrate how the conduct of …
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