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Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This article provides a review of recent literature in economics on the effect of mass media on politics. The focus is on the welfare effects of mass media. I also discuss the likely implications of existing behavioral theories of media effects, developed outside of economics.

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Pride and Prejudice: The Human Side of Incentive Theory

Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Many people are sensitive to social esteem, and their pride is a source of pro--social behavior. We present a game-theoretic model in which sensitivity to esteem varies across players and may depend on context as well players' beliefs about their opponents. For example, the pride associated with...

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Is It Trust we Model? An Attempt to Calculate the Non-Calculative

Rosenkranz, Stephanie; Weitzel, Utz - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

incentives while the trustful (and thus non-calculative) aspect of the decision is related to the framing of the situation. …

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...

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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …

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Rural–Urban Migration in Indonesia: Survey Design and Implementation

Resosudarmo, Budy P.; Yamauchi, Chikako; Effendi, Tadjuddin - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

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Village Economies and the Structure of Extended Family Networks

Angelucci, Manuela; De Giorgi, Giacomo; Rangel, Marcos A.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …

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Migration and Economic Mobility in Tanzania: Evidence from a Tracking Survey

Beegle, Kathleen; De Weerdt, Joachim; Dercon, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …

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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning About Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population.

Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996

In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment …

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Finding Good Opportunities within Undcoumented Markets: US Occupational Mobility for Latino Workers.

Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1995

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