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Is Voting Skin-Deep? Estimating the Effect of Candidate Ballot Photographs on Election Outcomes

Leigh, Andrew; Susilo, Tirta - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

In the Northern Territory, Australia, ballot papers for territory elections depict candidates’ photographs. We exploit this unusual electoral feature by looking at the effect that candidates’ beauty and skin color has on voting patterns. Our results for beauty are mixed, but we find strong...

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Beautiful Politicians

King, Amy; Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

Are beautiful politicians more likely to be elected? To test this, we use evidence from Australia, a country in which voting is compulsory, and in which voters are given ‘How to Vote’ cards depicting photos of the major party candidates as they arrive to vote. Using raters chosen to be...

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Community-based Targeting and Initial Local Conditions: Evidence from Indonesia’s IDT Program

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Community-based selection of social program recipients has the potential to benefit from local knowledge about individuals in need. This informational advantage however might be offset by local elite capture and administrative incompetency. Using Indonesia's anti-poverty program, this paper...

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Optimal Government Regulations and Red Tape in an Economy with Corruption

Mendez, Fabio; Sepulveda, Facundo - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

losses created by corruption. For each level of externalities, we find that high and low levels of corruption create … qualitatively different distortions, which in turn changes the nature and reach of optimal policies. Under low levels of corruption … the first best allocation. When externalities and corruption are above a threshold, only a second best allocation can be …

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How Well Do Individuals Predict Their Future Life Satisfaction? Rationality and Learning Following a Nationwide Exogenous Shock

Frijters, Paul; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Shields, Michael - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2003

Over recent years a number of papers have uses individual or household longitudinal survey data to investigate the rationality of income expectations. In this paper we provide a novel contribution to this literature by examining the ability of individuals to correctly predict their own future...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index: Australia is Not a Paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

In “Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia,” Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data...

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Investigating the Quitting Decision of Nurses: Panel Data Evidence from the British National Health Service

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael; Price, Stephen Wheatley - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

There is currently a worldwide shortage of registered nurses, driven by large shifts in both the demand for and supply of nurses. Consequently, various policies to increase the recruitment and retention of nurses are under discussion, in particular, the role that wage increases might have in...

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Public-Private Wage Gap in Australia: Variation Along the Distribution

Cai, Lixin; Liu, Amy Y.C. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

Previous research on public-private wage differentials in Australia is scarce and has focused on the central parts of the conditional wage distribution. Using the first six waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, this study applies quantile regression...

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Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence Among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Two strategies are utilized to determine the relationship between the credit and hourly wages. First, I use variation in state EITC supplements, which magnify the effect of the federal EITC. I find that a 10 percent increase in the...

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Earnings Inequality in Australia.

Borland, J.; Kennedy, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

This study examines changes in earnings inequality for full-time employees in Australia between 1982 and 1994-95 using individual-level data from the ABS Income Distribution Survey. It present measures of changes in earnings inequality for disaggregated workforce groups. It also provides...

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