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Understanding the Democratic Transition in South Africa

Inman, Robert P.; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy stands as one of the past century's most important political events. The transition has been successful to this point because the new constitution adopted a form of federal governance that has been able to provide protection for the economic...

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A Political Economy Theory of Partial Decentralization

Hatfield, John William; Miquel, Gerard Padró i - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in …. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We … therefore obtain that the median voter favors a partial degree of decentralization. The equilibrium degree of decentralization …

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How Do Voters Respond to Information? Evidence from a Randomized Campaign

Trebbi, Francesco; Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Rational voters update their subjective beliefs about candidates' attributes with the arrival of information, and subsequently base their votes on these beliefs. Information accrual is, however, endogenous to voters' types and difficult to identify in observational studies. In a large scale...

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What Was New About the New Deal?

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Wallis, John Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

During the presidential election of 1932 Franklin Roosevelt promised a New Deal for the American people. Our goal is to describe the changes wrought by the New Deal. To what extent did the New Deal expand existing programs? What new programs were created at all levels of government? How did the...

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Relaxing Occupational Licensing Requirements: Analyzing Wages and Prices for a Medical Service

Kleiner, Morris M.; Marier, Allison; Park, Kyoung Won; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

Occupational licensing laws have been relaxed in a large number of U.S. states to give nurse practitioners the ability to perform more tasks without the supervision of medical doctors. We investigate how these regulations may affect wages, employment, costs, and quality of providing certain...

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Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration

Fitzpatrick, Maria D.; Jones, Damon - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We present new evidence on the effects of merit aid scholarship programs on residential migration and educational attainment using Census data on 24 to 32 year olds in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. Eligibility for merit aid programs slightly increases the propensity of state natives to live...

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Singhal, Monica; Gadenne, Lucie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has … their relatively low levels of decentralization. We also consider additional features relevant to federalism in developing … been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less …

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Unintended Consequences of Products Liability: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Market

Lakdawalla, Darius; Helland, Eric; Malani, Anup; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

In a complex economy, production is vertical and crosses jurisdictional lines. Goods are often produced by an upstream national or global firm and improved or distributed by local firms downstream. In this context, heightened products liability may have unintended consequences on product sales...

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People, Places and Public Policy: Some Simple Welfare Economics of Local Economic Development Programs

moretti, enrico; Kline, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Most countries exhibit large and persistent geographical differences in wages, income and unemployment rates. A growing class of "place based" policies attempt to address these differences through public investments and subsidies that target disadvantaged neighborhoods, cities or regions. Place...

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Games and Resources

Harstad, Bård; Liski, Matti - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This article presents a sequence of simple and related models to analyze the strategic use of natural resources. Game theory is the natural tool for such an analysis, whether the resource is private or publicly owned, whether it is renewable or exhaustible, whether the game is static or dynamic,...

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