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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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Divided we reform? : evidence from US welfare policies
Bernecker, Andreas - 2014
Divided government is often thought of as causing legislative deadlock. I investigate the link between divided government and economic reforms using a novel data set on welfare reforms in US states between 1978 and 2010. Panel data regressions show that under divided government a US state is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229882
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Rhineland exit?
Bovenberg, Ary Lans (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630541
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Voting up? : the effects of democracy and franchise extension on human stature
Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan; Hatton, Timothy J. - 2019
new instrument for democracy and the extension of the franchise, the effect of decolonisation on democracy in the … colonising country's democratisation to identify the causal effect of democracy on heights. We find robust evidence of a link … between democratic quality and human stature. The results indicate that the transition to democracy increased average male …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029108
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013
In this paper, I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar Swiss referendum ballots concerning the federal governmentś competency to levy income, capital and turnover taxes to find out how the enfranchisement of women influences public support for government spending. The first ballot...
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Tax-benefit systems in Europe and the US : between equity and efficiency
Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Neumann, Dirk; … - 2011
the international comparison in degrees of revealed inequality aversion, but differences in social preferences are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009240828
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Automatic stabilizers and economic crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922975
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Assessing the macroeconomic forecasting performance of boosting : evidence for the United States, the Euro Area, and Germany
Buchen, Teresa; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
The use of large datasets for macroeconomic forecasting has received a great deal of interest recently. Boosting is one possible method of using high-dimensional data for this purpose. It is a stage-wise additive modelling procedure, which, in a linear specification, becomes a variable selection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721997
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Is monetary policy in the eurozone less effective than in the US?
De Grauwe, Paul (contributor); Costa, Cláudia (contributor) - 2005
There is a wide consensus that the existence of structural rigidities in the Eurozone reduces the effectiveness of the ECB's monetary policies. In order to test this "ECB-handicap" hypothesis, we perform a meta-analysis of the effects of monetary policies in the US and the Eurozone countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297484
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Population aging and fiscal policy in Europe and the United States
Gokhale, Jagadeesh; Raffelhüschen, Bernd - 2000
In this paper, we compare the total size of intertemporal public liabilities (IPLs) of several European countries and the United States. We utilize the machinery of generational accounting in order to calculate the composition of the countries IPLs, that is the sum of the explicit and implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781507