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Government and Cities: Contests and the Decentralization of Decision Making

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Governments do not have perfect information regarding the priorities and the needs of different groups in the economy. This lack of knowledge opens the door for different groups to lobby the government in order to receive the government’s support. We set up a model of hierarchical contests and...

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Selfish and Prospective: Theory and Evidence of Pocketbook Voting

Elinder, Mikael; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in … Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social …-in-differences strategy for identification. We find clear evidence of prospective pocketbook voting. Voters respond to campaign promises but …

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How Prediction Markets Can Save Event Studies

Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This review paper articulates the relationship between prediction market data and event studies, with a special focus on applications in political economy. Event studies have been used to address a variety of political economy questions – from the economic effects of party control of...

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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Does Money Make People Right-Wing and Inegalitarian? A Longitudinal Study of Lottery Winners

Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Oswald, Andrew J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

voting is driven partly by human self-interest. Money apparently makes people more right-wing. …

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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and Politics: The Role of Immigration in Shaping Natives' Political Preferences

Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; de Blasio, Guido; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

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Does Secular Education Impact Religiosity, Electoral Participation and the Propensity to Vote for Islamic Parties? Evidence from an Education Reform in a Muslim Country

Cesur, Resul; Mocan, Naci - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

men or women. The impact of education on religiosity and voting preference is not working through migration, residential …

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The Productivity Consequences of Political Turnover: Firm-Level Evidence from Ukraine's Orange Revolution

Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We examine the impact of political turnover on economic performance in a setting of largely unanticipated political change and profoundly weak institutions: the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. Exploiting census-type panel data on over 7,000 manufacturing enterprises, we find that the...

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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy

Doepke, Matthias; Croix, David de la - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...

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