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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908729
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261268
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Does Liberté = Egalité? A Survey of the Empirical Evidence on the Links between Political Democracy and Income Inequality
Gradstein, Mark; Milanovic, Branko - 2000
The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence.Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314955
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Do Civil and Political Repression Really Boost Foreign Direct Investments?
Harms, Philipp; Ursprung, Heinrich - 2001
, multinational enterprises rather appear to be attracted by countries in which civil and political freedom is respected. Our finding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315140
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An empirical inquiry into the nature of welfarism
Amegashie, J. Atsu; Ouattara, Bazoumana - 2011
liberty in the sense that basic human rights like freedom of speech, freedom to express one's religious beliefs, and freedom … welfare comes simply from giving people greater levels of freedom and is independent of the existence of other inputs. On the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274745
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Impatience and Uncertainty : Experimental Decisions Predict Adolescents' Field Behavior
Sutter, Matthias - 2011
We study risk attitudes, ambiguity attitudes, and time preferences of 661 children and adolescents, aged ten to eighteen years, in an incentivized experiment and relate experimental choices to field behavior. Experimental measures of impatience are found to be significant predictors of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118350
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Workforce or Workfare?
Brett, Craig - 2011
This article explores the use of workfare as part of an optimal tax mix when labor supply responses are along the extensive margin. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between workfare and an earned income tax credit, two policies that are designed to provide additional incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124395
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts : Theory and Evidence
Cao, Shutao - 2014
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069444
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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2020
Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833717
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The Tradeoff between Indirect Network Effects and Product Differentiation in a Decarbonized Transport Market
Andreassen, Gøril L. - 2020
What factors determine whether it is optimal with one or more technologies in a decarbonized road transport sector, and what policies should governments choose? We investigate these questions theoretically and numerically through a static, partial equilibrium model for the road transport market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833722