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Advances in the Economic Theory of Cultural Transmission
Bisin, Alberto; Verdier, Thierry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
transmission, the micro-foundations for the technology of transmission, and feedback effects between culture, institutions, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388822
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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 … integrated with democracies are, at the time of the survey, more supportive of democracy. In line with the change in citizens …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210083
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Small Campaign Donors
Bouton, Laurent; Cagé, Julia; Dewitte, Edgard; Pons, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study the characteristics and behavior of small campaign donors and compare them to large donors by building a dataset including all the 340 million individual contributions reported to the U.S. Federal Election Commission between 2005 and 2020. Thanks to the reporting requirements of online...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210078
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The Effect of Inequality on Redistribution : An Econometric Analysis
Boskin, Michael J.; Elnahal, Kareem; Zhang, Adam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Using data on U.S. state and federal taxes and transfers over a quarter century, we estimate a regression model that yields the marginal effect of any shift of market income share from one quintile to another on the entire post tax, post-transfer income distribution. We identify exogenous income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544770
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Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers
Li, Weijia; Roland, Gérard; Xie, Yang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
that this principle yields a large set of theoretical insights on different separation-of-powers institutions that can help …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226142
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250204
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435163
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Are Immigrants more Left leaning than Natives?
Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We analyze whether second-generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical children of citizens in the host countries. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017, we characterize each vote on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388879