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Moderating Political Extremism: Single Round vs Runoff Elections under Plurality Rule

Bordignon, Massimo; Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2009

We compare single ballot vs dual ballot elections under plurality rule, assuming sincere voting and allowing for partly endogenous party formation. Under the dual ballot, the number of parties is larger but the influence of extremist voters on equilibrium policy is smaller, because their...

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

institutions, and property rights. …This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function …

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Human Capital and National Institutional Quality: Are TIMSS, PISA, and National Average IQ Robust Predictors?

Jones, Garett; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2014

Is human capital a robust predictor of good institutions? Using a new institutional quality measure, the International … Property Rights Index (IPRI), we find that cognitive skill measures are significant, robust, and large in magnitude. We use two …

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Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective: Part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh; Carus, A. W. - CESifo - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth … that private-order institutions have not historically substituted for public-order ones in enabling markets to function … Revolution of 1688 did not mark the sudden emergence of either secure property rights or economic growth. Economic history has …

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Why are Women less Democratic than Men? Evidence from Sub-Saharan African Countries

García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Konte, Maty - CESifo - 2013

A substantial literature has examined the determinants of support for democracy and although existing work has found a gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females are less supportive of democracy than males in a...

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - CESifo - 2012

Following the collapse of planning, new small and medium-sized firms rapidly emerged in all transition economies. Using firm level data, we investigate the interaction between the widespread opportunities for new business activities such firms faced and their business environment. The business...

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Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces

Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - CESifo - 2013

We investigate the determinants of the education gender gap in Italy in historical perspective with a focus on the influence of family structure. We capture the latter with two indicators: residential habits (nuclear vs. complex families) and inheritance rules (partition vs. primogeniture)....

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Voodoo versus Fishing Committees: The Role of Traditional and Contemporary Institutions in Fisheries Management

Alonso, Elena Briones; Houssa, Romain; Verpoorten, Marijke - CESifo - 2015

We study the co-existence of two community-based institutions for fisheries management in Benin: a traditional … survey data on fishing activities, we find that rules of both institutions have a statistically significant but small impact … fully assess the effectiveness of, and interactions between, the two institutions. …

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The Scope of Cooperation: Values and Incentives

Tabellini, Guido - CESifo - 2008

What explains the range of situations in which individuals cooperate? This paper studies a model where individuals respond to incentives but are also influenced by norms of good conduct inherited from earlier generations. Parents rationally choose what values to transmit to their offspring, and...

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A Multiplicity of Approaches to Institutional Analysis. Applications to the Government and the Arts

Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2009

political science, sociology, psychology, law and anthropology) is fruitful to explain institutions because it allows us to …

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