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School Turnarounds : Evidence from the 2009 Stimulus

Dee, Thomas - 2012

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) targeted substantial School Improvement Grants (SIGs) to the … nation's "persistently lowest achieving" public schools (i.e., up to $2 million per school annually over 3 years) but … required schools accepting these awards to implement a federally prescribed school-reform model. Schools that met the "lowest …

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The Value of School Facilities : Evidence from a Dynamic Regression Discontinuity Design

Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of voter-approved school bond issues on school district balance sheets, local housing … prices, and student achievement. We draw on the unique characteristics of California's system of school finance to obtain … clean identification of bonds' causal effects, comparing districts in which school bond referenda passed or failed by narrow …

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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy

de la Croix, David - 2007

The governments of nearly all countries are major providers of primary and secondary education to their citizens. In some countries, however, public schools coexist with private schools, while in others the government is the sole provider of education. In this study, we ask why different...

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Economic Interests, Worldviews, and Identities : Theory and Evidence on Ideational Politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2010

We use individual and aggregate data to ask how the Internet is changing the ideological segregation of the American electorate. Focusing on online news consumption, offline news consumption, and face-to-face social interactions, we define ideological segregation in each domain using standard...

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The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009

We use new data on entries and exits of US daily newspapers from 1869 to 2004 to estimate effects on political participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these events and allows for the possibility of confounding...

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Party Affiliation, Partisanship, and Political Beliefs : A Field Experiment

Gerber, Alan S. - 2009

Political partisanship is strongly correlated with attitudes and behavior, but it is unclear from this pattern whether partisan identity has a causal effect on political behavior and attitudes. We report the results of a field experiment designed to investigate the causal effect of party...

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He Who Counts Elects : Determinants of Fraud in the 1922 Colombian Presidential Election

Chaves, Isaías N. - 2009

This paper constructs measures of the extent of ballot stuffing (fraudulent votes) and electoral coercion at the municipal level using data from Colombia's 1922 Presidential elections. Our main findings are that the presence of the state reduced the extent of ballot stuffing, but that of the...

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The Real Swing Voter's Curse

Robinson, James A. - 2009

A key idea in political economy is that policy is often tailored to voters who are not ideologically attached - swing voters. We show, however, that in political environments where political parties can use repression and violence to exclude voters from elections, they may optimally target the...

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Economics and Ideology : Causal Evidence of the Impact of Economic Conditions on Support for Redistribution and Other Ballot Proposals

Brunner, Eric J. - 2008

Using California ballot proposition returns and exogenous shifts to labor demand, we provide the first large-scale causal evidence of the impact of economic conditions on policy preferences. Consistent with economic theory, we find that positive economic shocks decrease support for...

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