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Selecting the Best of Us? : politician quality in village councils in West Bengal, India

Chaudhuri, Ananish; Iversen, Vegard; Jensenius, Francesca R. - 2020

politics to make a difference. Developing country politicians are frequently stereotyped as embodiments of the negative … inexperienced village council politicians are less dishonest and more pro-social than ordinary citizens. Our findings also suggest …

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Out of work and into school : labor market policies and college enrollment during the Great Recession

Barr, Andrew; Turner, Sarah E. - 2014

The Great Recession brought large increases in unemployment and college enrollment; we explore how changing labor market conditions affected the decision to enroll, focusing on the role of state-specific dimensions of Unemployment Insurance (UI) policy. We measure the enrollment response to...

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Income support, (un-)employment and well-being

Hetschko, Clemens; Schöb, Ronnie; Wolf, Tobias - 2016

Using specific panel data of German welfare benefit recipients, we investigate the nonpecuniary life satisfaction effects of in-work benefits. Our empirical strategy combines difference-in-difference designs with synthetic control groups to analyze transitions of workers between unemployment,...

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Does federally-funded job training work? : non-experimental estimates of WIA training impacts using longitudinal data on workers and firms

Andersson, Fredrik; Holzer, Harry J.; Lane, Julia; … - 2016

In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...

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Public employment services under decentralization : evidence from a natural experiment

Mergele, Lukas; Kloß, Michael - 2019

This paper studies whether the decentralization of public employment services (PES) increases job placements among the unemployed. Decentralizing PES has been a widely applied reform used by governments aiming to enhance their efficacy. However, economic theory is ambiguous about its effects,...

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Employing the unemployed of Marienthal : evaluation of a guaranteed job program

Kasy, Maximilian; Lehner, Lukas - 2023

We evaluate a guaranteed job program launched in 2020 in Austria. Our evaluation is based on three approaches, pairwise matched randomization, a pre-registered synthetic control at the municipality level, and a comparison to individuals in control municipalities. This allows us to estimate...

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Exposition to corruption and political participation : evidence from Italian municipalities

Giommoni, Tommaso - 2017

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of local corruption on political participation which is mediated by the … press. Focusing on Italy, we generate a daily measure of exposition to local corruption screening articles of main Italian … press agency. Applying an event-study methodology on local elections, two results emerge. First, corruption exposition …

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Gender quotas and the quality of politicians

Baltrunaite, Audinga (contributor) - 2012

We analyze the effect of the introduction of gender quotas in candidate lists on the quality of elected politicians. We … a Difference in Differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the quality of elected politicians. We … find that gender quotas are associated with a higher average number of years of schooling of elected politicians, with the …

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When women take all : direct election and female leadership

Cipullo, Davide - 2023

of female mayors substantially. The results are stronger in cities with a high pre-reform share of female politicians and … that direct election regimes ease the selection of competent politicians into office. …

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Power over prosecutors corrupts politicians : cross country evidence using a new indicator

Aaken, Anne van (contributor); Feld, Lars P. (contributor); … - 2008

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