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No Surprises, Please : Voting Costs and Electoral Turnout
Alipour, JV; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
We study how seemingly benign changes to voting costs affect electoral turnout, exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in the assignment of polling places in Munich (Germany). Using an event study design, we find that polling place relocations cause a persistent shift from in-person to mail-in...
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Ethnofederalism and Ethnic Voting
Bluhm, Richard; Hodler, Roland; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We investigate how changes in the administrative-territorial structure affect ethnic voting. We present an event study design that exploits the 2010 constitutional reform in Kenya, which substantially increased the number of primary administrative regions. We find (i) strong evidence for a...
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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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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numb...
Bornmann, Lutz - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit's available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem...
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Does Envelopment Through Data Advantage Call for New Regulation?
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2021
Envelopment is an effective form of market entry that facilitates competition among platforms. Nevertheless, many commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because of that concern. These calls for regulation are...
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Gini and Optimal Income Taxation by Rank
Simula, Laurent - 2020
We solve the non-linear income tax program for a rank-dependent social welfare function à la Yaari, expressing the trade-off between size and inequality using the Gini or related families of positional indices. The key idea is that when agents optimize and absent bunching, ranks in the actual...
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Distribution and Use of Knowledge Under the 'Laws of the Web'
Falkinger, Josef - 2021
this fact for economic equilibrium analysis. In particular, it examines how the ranking schemes applied by the distribution … technology affect the use of knowledge, and it then describes the characteristics of an optimal ranking scheme. The analysis is …
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Rank Versus Inequality—Does Gender Composition Matter?
Kim, Duk Gyoo; Riegel, Max - 2022
This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank–inequality tradeoff. In a laboratory experiment, participants chose to either alleviate inequality by relinquishing their current relative rank or exacerbate inequality by maintaining their...
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A Menagerie of Rankings : A Look in Repec's Factory
Linnemer, Laurent - 2023
. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc’s main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The … paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and then presents some key descriptive statistics on the top 5% of … authors. Notably, the ranking is dominated by English-speaking authors, particularly those affiliated with institutions in the …
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Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
Elsner, Benjamin; Isphording, Ingo E.; Zölitz, Ulf - 2021
This paper studies how a student’s ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to teaching sections, we find that a higher rank increases performance and the probability of choosing...
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