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From Brown to Busing
Cascio, Elizabeth - 2007
An extensive literature debates the causes and consequences of the desegregation of American schools in the twentieth century. Despite the social importance of desegregation and the magnitude of the literature, we have lacked a comprehensive accounting of the basic facts of school desegregation....
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The Interaction and Sequencing of Policy Reforms
Asturias, Jose - 2016
In what order should a developing country adopt policy reforms? Do some policies complement each other? Do others substitute for each other? To address these questions, we develop a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with entry and exit of firms that are monopolistic competitors. The...
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Democracy and Development : The Devil in the Details
Persson, Torsten - 2006
Does democracy promote economic development? We review recent attempts to address this question, which exploit the … within-country variation associated with historical transitions in and out of democracy. The answer is positive, but depends … effect of democracy …
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The Ups and Downs of Turkish Growth, 2002-2015 : Political Dynamics, the European Union and the Institutional Slide
Acemoglu, Daron - 2015
deepening in Turkish democracy under the prodding and the guidance of the European Union, and witnessed the waning of the …
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Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy
Magistretti, Giacomo; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
democracy and favors the process of democratization. We combine survey data with country-level measures of democracy from 1960 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …' preferences, economic integration with democratic partners has a large, positive effect on a country's democracy score. Instead …
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Do Conflict of Interests Disclosures Work? : Evidence from Citations in Medical Journals
Leuz, Christian; Malani, Anup; Muhn, Maximilian; Jakab, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Financial ties between drug companies and medical researchers are thought to bias studies published in medical journals. To enable readers to account for such bias, most medical journals require authors to disclose potential conflicts of interest. We examine whether disclosure reduces article...
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Policy Experimentation in China : the Political Economy of Policy Learning
Wang, Shaoda; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Many governments have engaged in policy experimentation in various forms to resolve uncertainty and facilitate learning. However, little is understood about the characteristics of policy experimentation, and how the structure of experimentation may affect policy learning and policy outcomes. We...
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
Carneiro, Pedro - 2010
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
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Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
Carneiro, Pedro - 2009
This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...
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How Changes in Social Security Affect Recent Retirement Trends
Gustman, Alan L. - 2008
According to CPS data, men 65 to 69 were about six percentage points less likely to be retired in 2004 than in 1992. CPS and Health and Retirement Study (HRS) data indicate a corresponding difference of 3 percentage points between 1998 and 2004. Simulations with a structural retirement model...
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