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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we study if exposure to the institutions of trade partners changes individuals' attitudes towards … democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … trade. Relying on within-country variation across cohorts, we find that individuals who grew up when their country was more …

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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered

Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Goldin, Claudia; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004

A free and informative press is widely agreed to be crucial to the democratic process today. But throughout much of the nineteenth century U.S. newspapers were often public relations tools funded by politicians, and newspaper independence was a rarity. The newspaper industry underwent...

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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The Confederate Diaspora

Bazzi, Samuel; Ferrara, Andreas; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows how white migration out of the postbellum South diffused and entrenched Confederate culture across the United States at a critical juncture of westward expansion and postwar reconciliation. These migrants laid the groundwork for Confederate symbols and racial norms to become...

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Electoral College and Election Fraud

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they hold the most significant influence, such as...

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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC

Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...

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Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A Theory of Degenerate Autocracy

Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Many, if not most, personalistic dictatorships end up with a disastrous decision such as Hitler's attack on the Soviet Union, Hirohito's government launching a war against the United States, or Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Even if the decision is not ultimately fatal for the...

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Human Capital and Climate Change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...

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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States

Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...

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A Theory of Fiscal Responsibility and Irresponsibility

Halac, Marina; Yared, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We propose a political economy mechanism that explains the presence of fiscal regimes punctuated by crisis periods. Our model focuses on the interaction between successive deficit-biased governments subject to i.i.d. fiscal shocks. We show that the economy transitions between a fiscally...

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