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Bitterness in Life and Attitudes Towards Immigration

Poutvaara, Panu - 2015

Integration of immigrants is a two-way process, the success of which depends both on immigrants and on natives. We provide new evidence on the determinants of individual attitudes towards immigration, using data from the 2005 and 2010 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel. In particular, we...

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Security Gradient and National Defense - The Optimal Choice between a Draft Army and a Professional Army

Kanniainen, Vesa - 2014

The earlier work on the optimal design of the national security has focused on the opportunity cost of the draft in terms of foregone human capital formation. The current paper introduces the national security into the welfare analysis missing from the earlier work. This creates a trade-off...

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The Political Economy of Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu - 2013

Though in decline recently, military conscription is still a widely used mode of staffing armies. Since not many valid … rely on it. In this survey we explain the political allure of military conscription by its specific intra- and … to be mixed, however. Political preferences with respect to conscription involve concerns about its unfairness and …

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Does Female Suffrage Increase Public Support for Government Spending? Evidence from Swiss Ballots

Jaronicki, Katharina - 2013

In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal government's competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...

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Media, Fake News, and Debunking

Van Long, Ngo - 2018

We construct a Hotelling-type model of two media providers, each of whom can issue fake and/or real news and each of whom can invest in the debunking of their rival's fake news. The model assumes that consumers have an innate preference for one provider or the other and value real news. However,...

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Public Opinion on Education Policy in Germany

Lergetporer, Philipp - 2017

To better understand the political economy constraints of education policy, we have conducted the annual ifo Education Survey in Germany since 2014. This paper summarizes selected key findings on the German publics' preferences for education policies ranging from early childhood education and...

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Direct and Indirect Effects Based on Difference-in-Differences with an Application to Political Preferences Following the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Deuchert, Eva - 2018

This paper proposes a difference-in-differences approach for disentangling a total treatment effect on some outcome into a direct effect as well as an indirect effect operating through a binary intermediate variable – or mediator – within strata defined upon how the mediator reacts to the...

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Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries

Keller, Katarina R. I.; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2021

existence of conscription, albeit usually at low statistical significance. However, the intensity of its enforcement, measured …

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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)

Caruso, Raul - 2014

We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...

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Attribution Bias in Major Decisions : Evidence from the United States Military Academy

Haggag, Kareem - 2018

Using administrative data, we study the role of attribution bias in a high-stakes, consequential decision: the choice of a college major. Specifically, we examine the influence of fatigue experienced during exposure to a general education course on whether students choose the major corresponding...

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