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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 … total votes. Although each nomination is decided by simple majority, storable votes make it possible for the minority to win … minority of 45 senators would be able to block between 20 and 35 percent of nominees. For most parameter values, the …

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Immigration and the work force : economic consequences for the United States and source areas

Borjas, George J. (ed.); Freeman, Richard B. (contributor) - 1992

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Political Parties as Drivers of U.S. Polarization : 1927-2018

Canen, Nathan J. - 2020

The current polarization of elites in the U.S., particularly in Congress, is frequently ascribed to the emergence of cohorts of ideologically extreme legislators replacing moderate ones. Politicians, however, do not operate as isolated agents, driven solely by their preferences. They act within...

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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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Political Control Over Redistricting and the Partisan Balance in Congress

Coriale, Kenneth; Kolliner, Daniel A.; Kaplan, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We estimate the impact of a political party's ability to unilaterally redistrict Congressional seats upon partisan seat share allocations in the U.S. House of Representatives. Controlling for stateXdecade and year effects, we find an 8.2 percentage point increase in the Republican House seat...

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Everyone Steps Back? The Widespread Retraction of Crowd-Funding Support for Minority Creators when Migration Fear is High

Bai, Jianqiu; Kerr, William R.; Wan, Chi; Yorulmaz, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed political rhetoric … critical threshold of funding support. Retractions in support for minority creators during tense periods are even spatially, as …

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The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access

Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal,...

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Gender and Underrepresented Minority Differences in Research Funding

Cruz-Castro, Laura; Ginther, Donna K.; Sanz-Menéndez, Luis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This chapter reviews the data and literature on gender, race and ethnicity differences in research funding in the United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially...

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Do Earmarks Target Low-Income and Minority Communities? Evidence from US Drinking Water

Keiser, David A.; Mazumder, Bhashkar; Molitor, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The quality and inequality of US drinking water investments have gained attention after recent environmental disasters in Flint, Michigan, and elsewhere. We compare the formula-based targeting of subsidized loans provided under the Safe Drinking Water Act with the targeting of congressional...

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Leveling the Playing Field : How Campaign Advertising Can Help Non-Dominant Parties

Larreguy, Horacio A. - 2016

Voters are often uncertain about and biased against non-dominant political parties. By reducing the information gap with dominant parties, political advertising may thus disproportionately benefit non-dominant parties electorally. We test this argument in Mexico, where three main parties...

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