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Anthropometric Dividends of Czechoslovakia's Break Up

Costa-i-Font, Joan; Kossarova, Lucia - CESifo - 2014

Processes of transition to democracy and country break up stand out as ideal experiments to estimate the impact of wide … psycho-social environments, which improve with democracy. We analyzed a unique dataset containing individual heights in the … Czech Republic and Slovakia to measure the retrospective well-being effects of the two transitions to liberal democracy and …

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Workers of the World, Unite! Franchise Extensions and the Threat of Revolution in Europe, 1820-1938

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter S. - CESifo - 2011

This paper tests the hypothesis that the extension of the voting franchise was caused by the threat of revolution, as suggested by Acemoglu and Robinson [Quarterly Journal of Economics 115, 1167-1199, 2000]. We approximate the threat of revolution in a given country by revolutionary events...

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Commodity Price Volatility, Democracy and Economic Growth

Arezki, Rabah; Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the impact of commodity price volatility on economic growth in a panel of up to 158 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main finding is that commodity price volatility leads to a significant increase in non-resource GDP growth in...

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Democracy, Inequality and the Environment when Citizens can Mitigate Privately or Act Collectively

Bernard, Sophie; Hotte, Louis; Winer, Stanley L. - CESifo - 2010

We study the political economy of the environment in autocratic, weak and strong democracies when individuals can either mitigate the health consequences of domestic pollution privately or reduce pollution collectively through public policy. The setting is that of a small open economy in which...

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Soft Paternalism, Merit Goods, and Normative Individualism

Kirchgässner, Gebhard - CESifo - 2014

Paternalism is an attempt to influence individuals’ decisions for their own benefit, even if there are no third parties involved. This seems to contradict normative individualism, which provides the general orientation to our modern democracies. Soft or libertarian paternalism accepts the...

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Democratic Redistribution and Rule of the Majority

Corneo, Giacomo; Neher, Frank - CESifo - 2014

quality of democracy. However, there is a non-negligible share of democracies that implement a minority-backed amount of …

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The UN Goldstone Report and Retraction: An Empirical Investigation

Hillman, Arye L.; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2015

democracy score was some 55 percentage points less likely to vote in favor of the second of the two UN Goldstone resolutions and …

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The Female Vote and the Rise of AKP in Turkey

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tunali, Cigdem Börke - CESifo - 2015

Differences between the voting behavior of men and women have become one of the most significant issues in social science research in recent years. In this study, we examine whether there is gender gap in voting behavior in Turkey. Using European Social Survey data, we find that education level...

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World Price Shocks, Income, and Democratization

Zissimos, Benjamin - CESifo - 2015

of national income per capita and democracy may not be positively correlated. The model is also useful for understanding …

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The Golden Hello and Political Transitions

Aidt, Toke S.; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - CESifo - 2012

probability of a transition from autocracy to democracy and reduces the probability of democratic survival. …

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