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Disastrous discretion : ambiguous decision situations foster political favoritism

Schneider, Stephan A.; Kunze, Sven - 2022

Allocation decisions are vulnerable to political influence, but it is unclear in which situations politicians use their discretionary power in a partisan manner. We analyze the allocation of presidential disaster declarations in the United States, exploiting the spatiotemporal randomness of...

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Are immigrants more left-leaning than natives?

Moriconi, Simone; Peri, Giovanni; Turati, Riccardo - 2022

We analyze whether second generation immigrants have different political preferences relative to observationally identical host country's citizens. Using data on individual voting behavior in 22 European countries between 2001 and 2017 we characterize each vote on a left-right scale using...

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Emigration intentions and risk aversion : causal evidence from Albania

Beine, Michel; Charness, Gary; Dupuy, Arnaud - 2021

Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In this paper, we use original data from Albania on mobility intentions and elicited risk aversion to provide causal estimates on this relationship. Our identification strategy relies...

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Past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes in Europe

Gavresi, Despina; Litina, Anastasia - 2021

This paper explores the interplay between past exposure to macroeconomic shocks and populist attitudes. We document that individuals who experienced a macroeconomic shock during their impressionable years (between 18 and 25 years of age), are currently more prone to voting for populist parties,...

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Ideological spillovers across the Atlantic? : evidence from Trump's presidential election

Costa-Font, Joan; Ljunge, Martin - 2022

Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the effect of the unexpected election of a United States (US) president (Donald Trump on the 9th of...

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Advantageous smallness in contests

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021

A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...

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Tullock challenges : happiness, revolutions and democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2011

Gordon Tullock has been one of the most important founders and contributors to Public Choice. Two innovations are typical "Tullock Challenges". The first relates to method: the measurement of subjective well-being, or happiness. The second relates to digital social networks such as Facebook,...

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Elites and health infrastructure improvements in industrializing regimes

Krieger, Tommy - 2022

health-promoting public goods, and gather local-level information on workers' movements to study why elites in … industrializing countries implement policies that improve the health of the poor. Exploiting county-level variation in elite structure …, we present OLS and IV estimates, suggesting that elites improve access to health services due to pressure exerted by …

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Selective sharing of news items and the political position of news outlets

Freitag, Julian; Kerkhof, Anna; Münster, Johannes - 2021

We present a new measure for the political position of news outlets based on politicians' selective sharing of news items. Politicians predominantly share news items that are in line with their political position, hence, one can infer the political position of news outlets from the politicians'...

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Using machine learning for measuring democracy : an update

Gründler, Klaus; Krieger, Tommy - 2021

We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of Political Economy). Four improvements are particularly notable: First, we produce a...

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