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Sources of US longevity increase, 1960 - 1997

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2000

this paper we investigate whether an aggregate health production function can help to explain the annual time …-series behavior of U.S. longevity since 1960. We view longevity as the output of the health production function, and output … annual U.S. time-series data on life expectancy, health expenditure, and medical innovation. Reliable annual data are …

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The usual suspects : does risk tolerance, altruism, and health predict the response to COVID-19?

Sheth, Ketki; Wright, Greg C. - 2020

find a quarter of students violated the order. Yet, neither risk preference, altruism, nor preexisting health conditions …-existing health conditions may not voluntarily comply, resulting in higher health care congestion than otherwise expected. …

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Political institutions and government spending behavior : theory and evidence from Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; … - 2015 - This version: 16.06.2015

This study examines how the quality of political institutions affects the distribution of the government budget in Iran. We first introduce a mechanism through which democracy can shift government expenditure from national defense (military) to productivity-enhancing public spending (e.g.,...

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Economic policy uncertainty, trust and inflation expectations

Istrefi, Klodiana; Piloiu-Popescu, Anamaria-Valeria - 2013 - Second Draft: February 2013

Theory and evidence suggest that in an environment of well-anchored expectations, temporary news or shocks to economic variables, should not affect agents ́expectations of inflation in the long term. Our estimated structural VARs show that both long- and short-term inflation expectations are...

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Using real-time data to test for political budget cycles

Jong-A-Pin, Richard; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Haan, Jakob de - 2012 - This version: September 2012

We use real-time annual data on the fiscal balance, government current spending, current revenues and net capital outlays as published at a half yearly frequency in the OECD Economic Outlook for 25 OECD countries. For each fiscal year t we have a number of forecasts, a first release, and...

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Democratization and the size of government : evidence from the long 19th century

Aidt, Toke; Jensen, Peter Sandholt - 2013

We study the consequences of franchise extension and ballot reform for the size of government in Western Europe between 1820 and 1913. We find that franchise extension exhibits a U-shaped association with revenue per capita and a positive association with spending per capita. Instrumental...

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The political economy of financial systems : evidence from suffrage reforms in the last two centuries

Degryse, Hans; Lambert, Thomas; Schwienbacher, Armin - 2013 - This version: August 23, 2013

Initially, voting rights were limited to wealthy elites providing political support for stock markets. The franchise expansion induces the median voter to provide political support for banking development as this new electorate has lower financial holdings and benefits less from the uncertainty...

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Walk the line : conflict, state capacity and the political dynamics of reform

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2014 - Rev.

This paper develops a dynamic framework to analyze the political sustainability of economic reforms in developing countries. First, we demonstrate that economic reforms that are proceeding successfully may run into a political impasse, with the reform's initial success having a negative impact...

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Economic interests, worldviews and identities : theory and evidence on ideational politics

Ash, Elliott; Mukand, Sharun W.; Rodrik, Dani - 2021

We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the Stigler-Becker approach emphasizing vested interests. In our model, political entrepreneurs discover identity and...

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The Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap and the partisan balance of the state government

Cahan, Dodge; Potrafke, Niklas - 2017

Higher economic growth was generated during Democratic presidencies compared to Republican presidencies in the United States. The question is why. Blinder and Watson (2016) explain that the Democratic-Republican presidential growth gap (D-R growth gap) can hardly be attributed to the policies...

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