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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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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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Low-Skilled Immigration and the Expansion of Private Schools

Dottori, Davide; Shen, I-Ling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...

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Search by Committee

Albrecht, James; Vroman, Susan; Anderson, Axel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We consider the problem of sequential search when the decision to stop searching is made by a committee. We show that a …

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Competing Approaches to Forecasting Elections: Economic Models, Opinion Polling and Prediction Markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

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Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...

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On the Political Economy of Social Security and Public Education

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public education with three overlapping … benefits. The presence of productivity differences introduces a time-consistency problem with repeated voting. This can be …

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