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Mobile Internet and the Rise of Political Tribalism in Europe
Manacorda, Marco; Tabellini, Guido; Tesei, Andrea - 2022
We study the political effects of the diffusion of mobile Internet between 2007 and 2017, using data on electoral … outcomes and on mobile Internet signal across the 84,564 municipalities of 22 European countries. We find that access to mobile … Internet increased voters’ support for right-wing populist parties and for parties running on extreme socially conservative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244346
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An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment : Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan
Caria, Stefano - 2020
local jobseekers in Jordan: one treatment to address liquidity constraints, one to address information frictions, and one to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823564
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Culture, Institutions & the Long Divergence
Bisin, Alberto; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner; Verdier, Thierry - 2021
Recent theories of the Long Divergence between Middle Eastern and Western European economies focus on Middle Eastern (over-)reliance on religious legitimacy, use of slave soldiers, and persistence of restrictive proscriptions of religious (Islamic) law. These theories take as exogenous the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245626
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Satisfaction with Amenities and Taste for Revolt in the Middle East
Gholipour, Hassan F.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2023
The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between individuals’ satisfaction with amenities and environmental quality and taste for revolt in the Middle East. Using recent World Value Survey data (WVS7, 2017-2021) from Egypt and Iraq (which have been experiencing severe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347827
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Fighting Mobile Crime
Crinò, Rosario - 2019
Two countries set their enforcement non-cooperatively to deter native and foreign individuals from committing crime in their territory. Crime is mobile, ex ante (migration) and ex post (fleeing), and criminals hiding abroad after having com- mitted a crime in a country must be extradited back....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892142
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When Nudges Fail to Scale : Field Experimental Evidence from Goal Setting on Mobile Phones
Löschel, Andreas - 2020
Non-pecuniary incentives motivated by insights from psychology (“nudges”) have been shown to be effective tools to change behavior in a variety of fields. An often unanswered question relevant for public policy is whether these promising interventions can be scaled up. In cooperation with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825397
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Narrowing the 'Digital Divide' : The Role of Complementarities between Fixed and Mobile Data in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
access to an internet connection at work or school are more important than reducing mobile data prices by 10% in driving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866806
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality is High : The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866874
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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216252
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Labor Market Policies and European Crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328760