This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes … zero. One interpretation of these results is that the OLS Party premium is due to omitted ability and family background …

individuals' support for government intervention and their party identification. This result provides indirect evidence on the … inequality measures ; demand for redistribution ; distributive justice ; party identification ; support for the welfare state …

between the demand for redistribution and individuals' party identification. -- Subjective inequality measures ; demand for … redistribution ; support for the welfare state ; party identification …

-agents interactions. While most of the social psychology literature emphasizes the role of autonomy, recent economic research has provided … strength of these two motives. We compare two treatments: one in which control is exerted directly by the principal (second-party … control); and the other in which it is exerted by a third party enjoying no residual claimancy rights (third-party control …

find a positive intergenerational transmission of right-wing extremist party affinity for sons, but not for daughters …. Compared to the intergenerational correlation of other party affinities, the high association between fathers' and sons' right …

individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job … altogether or increasingly identify with extremist left-wing parties. -- job insecurity ; party identification ; prospective …

in more favorable industries and regions and offered higher earning premiums. In addition, family party membership is …

practice of partisan alignment. Using a quasi-experimental research design, we find that the village council level ruling-party … spends significantly more in its own party constituencies as compared to opponent constituencies. We also find strong …

results are consistent with naturalized migrants being less likely to vote for the Republican Party than native voters and … with native voters' political preferences moving towards the Republican Party because of high immigration of non …