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Immigration, Political Ideologies and the Polarization of American Politics
Dreher, Axel; Langlotz, Sarah; Matzat, Johannes; Mayda, … - 2021
We study the extent to which migrant inflows to the United States affect the political polarization of campaign donors and the ideology of politicians campaigning for the House of Representatives in the 1992-2016 period. Implementing various polarization measures based on ideology data derived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314752
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Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence
Du, Xinming - 2023
This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014259933
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Quantifying Domestic Violence in Times of Crisis
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2021
We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based … of the domestic violence problem during periods of crisis than traditional, police-recorded crime measures. Analyzing the … COVID-19 lockdown in Greater London, we find a 40 percent peak increase in our internet search-based domestic violence index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315247
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Alcohol, Violence and Injury-Induced Mortality : Evidence from a Modern-Day Prohibition
Barron, Kai; Parry, Charles DH; Bradshaw, Debbie; … - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact of a sudden and unexpected nation-wide alcohol sales ban in South Africa. We find that this policy causally reduced injury-induced mortality in the country by at least 14% during the five weeks of the ban. We argue that this estimate constitutes a lower bound on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299240
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744998
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Symptom or Culprit? Social Media, Air Pollution, and Violence
Du, Xinming - 2023
This paper provides the first causal evidence that hostile activities online lead to physical violence. Given the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290206
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Politics in the Facebook Era - Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections
Liberini, Federica - 2020
Through social media, politicians can personalize their campaigns and target specific groups of voters with an unprecedented precision. We assess the effects of such political micro-targeting by exploiting daily advertising prices on Facebook during the 2016 US presidential campaign. We measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835993
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Please bring me the New York Times: on the European roots of richard Abel Musgrave
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007
Richard Musgrave was one of the around 200 academic economists who emigrated from Germany when Fascism came to dominate the country. This memorial lecture traces the German and European roots of Richard Musgrave's oeuvre, trying to shed light on his family background as well as on the political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264170
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Culture and Gender Allocation of Tasks : Source Country Characteristics and the Division of Non-Market Work Among US Immigrants
Blau, Francine D. - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837672
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Is there Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D. - 2019
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858670