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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States

Giuliano, Paola - 2020

We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We …-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we document that the … historical presence of European immigrants is associated with a more liberal political ideology and with stronger preferences for …

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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2006

confirms an economically significant demand for news slanted toward one's own political ideology. Firms respond strongly to …

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Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government

Bolton, Alexander - 2016

A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence public sector careers. We describe how elections alter policy outputs and disrupt the influence of civil servants over agency decisions. These changes...

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How Do Voters Matter? Evidence from US Congressional Redistricting

Jones, Daniel B. - 2016

How does the partisan composition of an electorate impact the policies adopted by an elected representative? We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and 2010's. Using this variation,...

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Competition and Ideological Diversity : Historical Evidence from US Newspapers

Gentzkow, Matthew - 2012

We study the competitive forces that shaped ideological diversity in the US press in the early twentieth century. We find that households preferred like-minded news and that newspapers used their political orientation to differentiate from competitors. We formulate a model of newspaper demand,...

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Ideas Have Consequences : The Impact of Law and Economics on American Justice

Ash, Elliott; Chen, Daniel L.; Naidu, Suresh - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects of the early law-and- economics movement on the U.S. judiciary. We focus on the Manne Economics Institute for Federal Judges, an intensive economics course that trained almost half of federal judges between 1976 and 1999. Using the...

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Fragile Algorithms and Fallible Decision-Makers : Lessons from the Justice System

Ludwig, Jens; Mullainathan, Sendhil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Algorithms (in some form) are already widely used in the criminal justice system. We draw lessons from this experience for what is to come for the rest of society as machine learning diffuses. We find economists and other social scientists have a key role to play in shaping the impact of...

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Red Scare? A Study of Ethnic Prejudice in the Prosecutions under the Economic Espionage Act

Fang, Hanming; Li, Ming - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We empirically test whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) engages in ethnic prejudice against Chinese in its prosecutorial decisions under the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) of 1996. Using data of EEA cases from November 1996 to June 2021, we conduct Becker's outcome test for evidence of ethnic...

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The Long Run Impacts of Court-Ordered Desegregation

Anstreicher, Garrett; Fletcher, Jason; Thompson, Owen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Court ordered desegregation plans were implemented in hundreds of US school districts nationwide from the 1960s through the 1980s, and were arguably the most substantive national attempt to improve educational access for African American children in modern American history. Using large Census...

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Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts

Ash, Elliott - 2020

Anecdotal evidence often points to aging as a cause for reduced work performance. This paper provides empirical evidence on this issue in a context where performance is measurable and there is variation in mandatory retirement policies: U.S. state supreme courts. We find that introducing...

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