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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014

It is now common to use the individual's self-assessed-health-status (SAHS) as a measure of health. The use of SAHS is … 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is used for the exploration of the full spectrum … of factors behind the health-status in 16 European countries, focusing on behavioral risk factors (smoking, alcohol …

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Intergenerational residence patterns and COVID-19 fatalities in the EU and the US

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2020

We study how patterns of intergenerational residence possibly influence fatalities from Covid-19. We use aggregate data on Covid-19 deaths, the share of young adults living with their parents, and a number of other statistics, for the 27 countries in the European Union, the UK, and all US...

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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021

In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...

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Migrants' missing votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020

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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Economic integration and state capacity : evidence from the Eastern enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, László; Campos, Nauro - 2018

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been studied in detail so far. We put together a conceptual framework to guide our analysis that highlights what we call the Montesquieu, Weber and Smith channels. Each of these...

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Dragnet-controls and government ideology

Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

In many European countries established leftwing and rightwing parties have been threatened by policy convergence and, in turn, new populist parties that offer more polarized platforms. I investigate whether government ideology influences dragnet-controls - controls of persons conducted by the...

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Did austerity cause Brexit?

Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018

Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...

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Financial crises and liberalization : progress or reversals?

Saka, Orkun; Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei; … - 2019

Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...

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East versus West on the European populism scale

Gunnarsson, Jonas A.; Gylfi Zoega - 2017

We study a sample of individuals in 20 European countries that includes eight East European countries in order to identify whether these eight countries differ from the Western countries in the popularity of right-wing populist parties once we have controlled for personal attributes. The results...

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On the political economics of tax reforms

Castanheira, Micael; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A.; Profeta, Paola - 2011

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...

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