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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections
Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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Political Support, Cognitive Dissonance and Political Preferences
Artiga González, Tanja; Capozza, Francesco; Granic, … - 2022
conceptualize our arguments in a theoretical model of policy preference changes rooted in cognitive dissonance theory. A pre …-registered, online experiment with 1,200 U.S. participants confirms our main hypotheses. As predicted by cognitive dissonance theory …
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Young Voters and Budget Deficits
Nyhus, Ole Henning; Strøm, Bjarne - 2023
This paper exploits a novel trial in Norwegian local elections in 2011 to provide empirical evidence on fiscal performance from lowering the minimum voting age from 18 to 16. Using a difference in differences research strategy, we find that this voting age change reduced the net operating...
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How Do Subnational Governments React to Shocks to Revenue Sources? Evidence from Argentina
Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2019
that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we jointly estimate the effects that changes in these public revenues had on …
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How Do Subnational Governments React to Shocks to Different Revenue Sources? Evidence from Hydrocarbon-Producing Provinces in Argentina
Besfamille, Martin; Jorrat, Diego; Manzano, Osmel; … - 2021
Based on the fiscal regime that prevailed in Argentina from 1988 to 2003, we estimate the effects that changes in …
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Collective Emotions and Protest Vote
Altomonte, Carlo - 2019
We leverage on important findings in social psychology to build a behavioral theory of protest vote. An individual …, i.e. when her relative deprivation increases. In line with the Intergroup Emotions Theory, this feeling is amplified if … populist rhetoric. The theory predicts higher support for the protest party when individuals identify more strongly with their …
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Voting Advice Applications and Elections
Benesch, Christine; Heim, Rino; Schelker, Mark; Schmid, … - 2021
We analyze how the introduction of the voting advice application (VAA) smartvote affects voter turnout, voting behavior and electoral outcomes. The Swiss context offers an ideal setting to identify the causal effects of online information with aggregate real world data because smartvote was...
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Decentralization and Progressive Taxation
Berset, Simon; Schelker, Mark - 2021
The traditional normative literature on fiscal federalism argues that redistributive policies should be centralized in order to avoid welfare- or tax-induced migration. However, recent evidence shows that even in a setup where the progressivity of the income tax schedule is centralized to an...
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Fiscal Externalities in Multilevel Tax Structures : Evidence from Concurrent Income Taxation
Revelli, Federico; Tsai, Tsung-Sheng; Zotti, Roberto - 2021
This paper exploits the multi-tiered structure of personal income taxation in Italy to investigate within-tier (horizontal) and between-tiers (vertical and diagonal) fiscal externalities. Estimation of an unrestricted income tax reaction function on municipalities located at internal regional...
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