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Using voting data from the Bank of England, we show that different individual assessments of the economy strongly influence votes after controlling for individual policy preferences. We estimate that internal members form more precise assessments than externals and are also more hawkish, though...
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motherhood exerts an effect on attitudes towards gender norms, and more specifically, attitudes towards the impact of women …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … motherhood it does not significantly change women's attitudes. These results suggest that exogenous changes in employment during …
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The existing literature provides evidence that public opinion and attitudes often affect public policy. However, little … is known on how public policy might affect public attitudes and norms. I present new evidence on this topic by using age … with statistically significant deterioration in attitudes towards the necessity of health insurance among young adults who …
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This paper explores the interplay between past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes. We document … populist attitudes when faced with a current crisis, as suggested by the experience-based learning literature. …
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affects the attitudes of its members towards immigration. Hence, an aging social environment exerts an effect on the attitudes … "societal population aging" is the old-age dependency ratio. "Attitudes" are taken from immigration related questions in eight … consecutive rounds of the European Social Survey. For these attitudes we find non-linear, U-shaped relationships. Hence, the …
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attitudes toward immigrants. Employing waves 6 and 7 of World Values Survey (WVS), our descriptive statistics show that Koreans …
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This study investigates men's attitudes toward women's education in Afghanistan, focusing on primary, secondary, and … apply multivariate regression analysis with a comprehensive set of covariates. Our findings reveal that men's attitudes … income significantly mitigate these negative attitudes, particularly toward secondary education, followed by tertiary …
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media consumers becomes more important the larger the number of competing media products. …
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imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside …
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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