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What to put on and what to keep off the Table? A Politician's Choice of which Issues to address
Sayag, Rei S.; Swank, Otto H. - 2012
At the start of their term, politicians often announce which issue they intend to address. To shed light on this agenda setting, we develop a model in which a politician has to decide whether or not to address a public issue. Addressing an issue means that the politician investigates the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326387
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Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Bonfatti, Roberto; Gu, Yuan; Poelhekke, Steven - 2019
Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and comparative advantage, or the result of suboptimal political distortions? We investigate the political determinants of road paving in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114759
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Reputation Shocks and Strategic Responses in Electoral Campaigns
Poblete Cazenave, Rubén - 2021
Information affecting a candidate's reputation might have significant electoral consequences. Do candidates respond to the release of information? Using Brazilian elections and audits as an exogenous source of information, I show that both incumbent and challenger increase their campaign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606015
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What to Put on and What to Keep Off the Table? A Politician's Choice of Which Issues to Address
Sayag, Rei; Swank, Otto H. - 2012
At the start of their term, politicians often announce which issue they intend to address. To shed light on this agenda setting, we develop a model in which a politician has to decide whether or not to address a public issue. Addressing an issue means that the politician investigates the issue...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014163289
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Unemployment Dynamics in the OECD
Elsby, Michael W.L.; Hobijn, Bart; Sahin, Aysegul - 2011
available data for fourteen OECD economies. We thendevise a method to decompose changes in unemployment into contributions … accountedfor by changes in inflow and outflow rates for cases where unemployment deviates fromits flow steady state, as it does in … unemploymentvariation within countries. For Anglo-Saxon economies we find approximately a 15:85inflow/outflow split to unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326322
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Life Satisfaction Differences between Workers and Non-Workers - The Value of Participation per se
van Praag, Bernard M.S.; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - 2002
Is working more than monetary income? This paper attempts to give an answer to this question on the basis of the German Socio-economic Panel data set. By comparing the satisfaction with life between workers and non-workers with the same household income, the monetary value of participating in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324826
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The Use of Spatial Filtering Techniques: The Spatial and Space-time Structure of German Unemployment Data
Patuelli, Roberto; Griffith, Daniel A.; Tiefelsdorf, Michael - 2006
pertaining to regional unemployment in Germany. The available data set comprises information about the share of unemployed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325517
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How Sensitive are Sports Fans to Unemployment?
Reade, J. James; van Ours, Jan C. - 2021
We analyze attendance of professional football matches in England finding that it is related to unemployment over a … very long period of time. More unemployment leads to lower attendances. Distinguishing between leagues, we find that the … unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606014
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Intergenerational Spillovers in Disability Insurance
Dahl, Gordon Boyack; Gielen, Anne C. - 2018
Does participation in a social assistance program by parents have spillovers on their children's own participation, future labor market attachment, and human capital investments? While intergenerational concerns have figured prominently in policy debates for decades, causal evidence is scarce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011819530
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Social Experiments and Instrumental Variables with Duration Outcomes
Abbring, Jaap H.; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2005
This paper examines the empirical analysis of treatment effects on duration outcomes from data that contain instrumental variation. We focus on social experiments in which an intention to treat is randomized and compliance may be imperfect. We distinguish between cases where the treatment starts...
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