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Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing immunity pacifies the MPs of the opposition parties. They become less … diligent in the Parliament (drafting fewer pieces of legislation, initiating fewer investigation inquiries, delivering fewer … the revocation of MP immunity are polarized. An individual's trust in the Parliament is decreased or increased based on …

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No Kin In The Game : Moral Hazard and War in the U.S. Congress

McGuirk, Eoin - 2017

Why do wars occur? We exploit a natural experiment to test the longstanding hypothesis that leaders declare war because they fail to internalize the associated costs. We test this moral hazard theory of conflict by compiling data on the 9,210 children of 3,693 US legislators who served in the...

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Credibility and Policy Convergence : Evidence from U.S. House Roll Call Voting Records

Lee, David S. - 2002

Traditional models of politician behavior predict complete or partial policy convergence, whereby electoral competition compels partisan politicians to choose positions more moderate than their most-preferred policies. Alternatively, if politicians cannot overcome the inability to make binding...

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Storable Votes and Judicial Nominations in the U.S. Senate

Casella, Alessandra - 2014

We model a procedural reform aimed at restoring a proper role for the minority in the confirmation process of judicial nominations in the U.S. Senate. We analyze a proposal that would call for nominations to the same level court to be collected in periodic lists and voted upon individually with...

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Logrolling in Congress

Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...

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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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Understanding Trends in Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States

Katz, Lawrence F. - 2019

This paper describes and tries to reconcile trends in alternative work arrangements in the United States using data from the Contingent Worker Survey supplements to the Current Population Survey (CPS) for 1995 to 2017, the 2015 RAND-Princeton Contingent Work Survey (CWS), and administrative tax...

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The Value of Working Conditions in the United States and Implications for the Structure of Wages

Maestas, Nicole - 2018

This paper documents variation in working conditions among workers in the United States, presents new estimates of how workers value these conditions, and assesses the impact of working conditions on estimates of the wage structure and inequality. We use evidence from a series of...

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The Effects of the Emeryville Fair Workweek Ordinance on the Daily Lives of Low-Wage Workers and their Families

Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans; Gassman-Pines, Anna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Emeryville, CA's Fair Workweek Ordinance (FWO) aimed to reduce service workers' schedule unpredictability by requiring large retail and food service employers to provide advanced notice of schedules and to compensate workers for last-minute schedule changes. From a 1-in-6 sample of Emeryville...

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