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Persuasion and Gender : Experimental Evidence from Two Political Campaigns

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2016

campaigns. We implemented a survey experiment during the (mixed gender) electoral race for mayor in Milan (2011), and a field … experiment during the (same gender) electoral race for mayor in Cava de' Tirreni (2015). In both cases, a sample of eligible … gender differences emerge. Females vote more for the opponent and less for the incumbent when they are exposed to the …

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Macroeconomic Effects of Government Spending Shocks : New Evidence Using Natural Disaster Relief in Korea

Yang, Weonho - 2012

We investigate the macroeconomic effects of government spending shocks in Korea. We compare results obtained with two alternative approaches: the narrative approach and Structural Vector-Autoregressive model (SVAR). We propose a new methodology for identifying exogenous and unexpected fiscal...

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Cyclical Fiscal Policy, Output Volatility, and Economic Growth

Badinger, Harald - 2021

This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...

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Minimum Wage Incidence : The Case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas - 2008

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …

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Nobody Home : The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Long-Term Child Outcomes

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - 2021

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …

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Globalization, Gender and Development : The Effect of Parental Labor Supply on Child Schooling

Ural Marchand, Beyza P. - 2011

Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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The Impact of Fiscal Policy on Profits

Katsimē, Margarita - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of fiscal policy on profits using panel data for 19 high-income OECD countries during the period 1975-1999. We estimate a profit equation in which profits depend on a set of fiscal variables. Our empirical method is based on a consistent treatment of the...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Fiscal Adjustment : A Tale of Two Approaches

Yang, Weonho - 2013

We investigate the short-term effects of fiscal adjustment on economic activity in 20 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009. We compare two approaches: the traditional approach based on changes in cyclically adjusted primary balance (CAPB) and the narrative approach based on historical records....

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Fiscal Policies and Business Cycles in an Enlarged Euro Area

Stæhr, Karsten - 2008

This paper compares the cyclical properties of fiscal policies across the 12 original eurozone countries and the future members from Central and Eastern Europe. For the sample period 1995-2005, the fiscal balance exhibits less inertia and is more counter-cyclical in Central and Eastern European...

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