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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual …-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include … models accounting for several confounders, regional and cohort fixed effects. We document that democracy - or its quality …

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Financial policymaking after crises : public vs. private interests

Saka, Orkun; Ji, Yuemei; De Grauwe, Paul - 2021

We first present a simple model of post-crisis policymaking driven by both public and private interests. Using a novel dataset covering 94 countries between 1973 and 2015, we then establish that financial crises can lead to government interventions in financial markets. Consistent with a public...

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during WWII as our example of such a...

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Early-life circumstances predict measures of trust among adults : evidence from hunger episodes in post-war Germany

Hörl, Maximiliane; Kesternich, Iris; Smith, James P.; … - 2016

Can a major shock in childhood permanently shape trust? We consider a hunger episode in Germany after WWII and construct a measure of hunger exposure from official data on caloric rations set monthly by the occupying forces providing regional and temporal variation. We correlate hunger exposure...

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How free trade can help convert the 'Arab Spring' into permanent peace and democracy

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez, Inmaculada; Wijkman, … - 2012

establishing political democracy and human rights in key countries. In response, the EU increased the emphasis in the ENP on … supporting the democratization process in the Barcelona countries and on negotiating deep and comprehensive free trade agreements …

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The role of direct democracy in the European Union

Feld, Lars P.; Kirchgässner, Gebhard - 2003

discussion of the pros and cons of direct democracy, the ability of direct democracy to help creating a European demos is …

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Democratic participation and the size of regions : an empirical study using data on German counties

Seitz, Helmut (contributor) - 2008

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Populism and social polarization in European democracies

Ginsburgh, Victor; Perelman, Sergio; Pestieau, Pierre - 2020

The objective of this paper is to explain populist attitudes that are prevailing in a number of European democracies. Populist attitudes expectedly lead to social protests and populist votes. We capture the populist wave by relying not on voting behavior but rather on values that are...

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Future European alliance : Europe as a flexible democracy

Frey, Bruno S.; Steuernagel, Armin; Friedrich, Jonas - 2018

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

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Financing democracy

Gersbach, Hans; Liessem, Verena - 2002

Based on contribution patterns to parties in Germany and elsewhere, we suggest that democracies should use a mixed system where private funding can play a larger role than public funding. In Germany the high level of public funding for parties can be reduced without expecting undesirable effects...

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