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Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Using data across countries and over time we show that women are unhappier than men in unhappiness and negative affect equations, irrespective of the measure used - anxiety, depression, fearfulness, sadness, loneliness, anger - and they have more days with bad mental health and more restless...

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Credibility and Policy Convergence : Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

Lee, David S. - 2002

Traditional models of politician behavior predict complete or partial policy convergence, whereby electoral competition compels partisan politicians to choose positions more moderate than their most-preferred policies. Alternatively, if politicians cannot overcome the inability to make binding...

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No Kin In The Game : Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

Why do wars occur? We exploit a natural experiment to test the longstanding hypothesis that leaders declare war because they fail to internalize the associated costs. We test this moral hazard theory of conflict by compiling data on the 9,210 children of 3,693 US legislators who served in the...

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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Logrolling in Congress

Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...

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Przyszłość Unii Europejskiej : Polski punkt widzenia : the Polish point of view

Barcz, Jan (ed.); Żukrowska, Kytarzyna (contributor) - 2001

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From Bismarck to Maastricht : The March to European Union and the Labor Compact

Krueger, Alan B. - 2000

, despite increased economic integration in Europe, countries will still be able to maintain distinct labor practices if they … integration will place on the labor compact. Evidence is presented suggesting that labor mobility among EU countries has not … finding suggests that increased economic integration and European Monetary Union could lead to greater demand for social …

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Aggregate Implications of Firm Heterogeneity : A Nonparametric Analysis of Monopolistic Competition Trade Models

Adão, Rodrigo - 2020

the gains from trade in countries with more exporter firms and the welfare gains of European market integration in 2003-2012 …

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The European Union, the Euro, and Equity Market Integration

Bekaert, Geert - 2010

equity market integration in Europe. We use a simple and essentially model free measure of bilateral market segmentation: two … even after we control for several possible channels of integration, such as bilateral trade, direct investment positions … the Euro adoption has minimal effects on market integration …

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