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Gambling and the Use of Credit: An Individual and Household Level Analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

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Trespassing the Threshold of Relevance: Media Exposure and Opinion Polls of the Sweden Democrats, 2006-2010

Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) for the first time with 5.7 percent of the total votes. The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion...

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Public Opinion on Immigration: Has the Recession Changed Minds?

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

It is widely believed that the current recession has soured public attitudes towards immigration. But most existing studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In this paper I use the six rounds of the European Social...

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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...

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The Struggle for Palestinian Hearts and Minds: Violence and Public Opinion in the Second Intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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Regional Measures of Human Capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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