Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …

conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use …

of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion polls for political parties; i.e. the media effect. In particular to … media with the results of the SD opinion polls as well as the opinion poll results of all the other parliamentary parties … considerably stronger effect on the opinion fluctuations, compared to the other five newspapers. To conclude, media exposure …

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 … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …

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 … to other fatalities. Although overall Israeli fatalities do not seem to affect Palestinian public opinion, when we divide …

institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main findings are: (i) When the economy is growing, on average people appreciate …

studies are cross sectional and can shed little light on the economy-wide forces that shift public opinion on immigration. In … immigration opinion for 20 countries. The recession that began in 2008 provides a useful test because its severity varied so … widely across Europe. For Europe as a whole the shifts in average opinion have been remarkably mild. But trends in opinion …

existence of conscription, albeit usually at low statistical significance. However, the intensity of its enforcement, measured …

avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription … regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …