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Local Public Good Provision : Voting, Peer Effects, and Mobility

Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis; Romer, Thomas; Sieg, … - 2022

of voting in local communities when neighborhood quality depends on peer or neighborhood effects. We develop a new …

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Testing for Information Asymmetries in Real Estate Markets

Kurlat, Pablo D. - 2014

. In residential real estate markets hard-to-observe neighborhood characteristics are a key source of information … heterogeneity: sellers are usually better informed about neighborhood values than buyers, but there are some sellers and some buyers … subsequent house-price declines and demographic changes in that neighborhood. This effect is larger for houses whose value …

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How Much Does Sorting Increase Inequality?

Kremer, Michael - 2021

Social commentators from William Julius Wilson to Charles Murray have argued that increased sorting of people into internally homogeneous" neighborhoods,schools, and marriages is spurring long-run inequality. Cali- bration of a formal model suggests that these fears are misplaced. In order to...

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Experimental Analysis of Neighborhood Effects

Kling, Jeffrey R.; Liebman, Jeffrey B.; Katz, Lawrence F. - 2021

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Conflict, Evolution, Hegemony, and the Power of the State

Levine, David K. - 2013

In a model of evolution driven by conflict between societies more powerful states have an advantage. When the influence of outsiders is small we show that this results in a tendency to hegemony. In a simple example in which institutions differ in their "exclusiveness" we find that these...

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Redistributive Public Employment

Alesina, Alberto F.; Easterly, William; Baqir, Reza - 2021

Politicians may use disguised' redistributive policies in order to circumvent opposition to explicit tax-transfer schemes. First, we present a theoretical model that formalizes this hypothesis; then we provide evidence that in US cities, politicians use public employment as such a redistributive...

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Politics and Economics in Weak and Strong States

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While much research in political economy points out the benefits of "limited government," political scientists have long emphasized the problems created in many less developed nations by "weak states," which lack the power to tax and regulate the economy and to withstand the political and social...

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Parsing mobilities in Central Eurasia : border management and New Silk Roads

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Eurasian Integration : Challenges of Transcontinental Regionalism

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The Eurasian continent, which has for over a century lagged behind in global markets, is currently gaining economic and political momentum. This book investigates emerging economic linkages in the area, examining the factors shaping this integration, the benefits and risks involved, and the...

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