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Constitutions and economic development: evidence from the American Indian Nations
Akee, Randall; Jorgensen, Miriam; Sunde, Uwe - 2012
This paper presents an empirical examination of economic and institutional development. Utilizing a novel data set on American Indian tribal nations, we investigate how constitutional design affects economic development, while holding the broader legal and political environment fixed....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009575381
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The role of constitutions on poverty : a cross-national investigation
Minkler, Lanse; Prakash, Nishith - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488146
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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament
Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021
In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517500
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What are you voting for? : proximity to refugee reception centres and voting in the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum
Bratti, Massimiliano; Deiana, Claudio; Enkelejda, Havari; … - 2017
In December 2016, in the middle of the "European refugee crisis", the Italian electorate voted for a referendum on crucial constitutional reform promoted by the governing party. The official aims of the reform were both to improve the country's governability and stability and to simplify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011737490
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How corruption hits people when they are down
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2006
"Using cross-country and Peruvian data, I show that victims of misfortune, particularly crime victims, are much more likely than non-victims to bribe public officials. Misfortune increases victims' demand for public services, raising bribery indirectly, and also increases victims' propensity to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003359285
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
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Bribery in health care in Peru and Uganda
Hunt, Jennifer (contributor) - 2007
in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care …: doubling household consumption increases the bribery probability by 0.2-0.4 percentage points in Peru, compared to a bribery … to a bribery rate of 17%. The income elasticity of the bribe amount cannot be precisely estimated in Peru, but is about 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003590539
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups
Ñopo, Hugo (contributor) - 2007
proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591487
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Employment and deadweight loss effects of observed non-wage labor costs
Aguilar, Giovanna (contributor);  … - 2007
To assess the employment effects of labor costs it is crucial to have reliable estimates of the labor cost elasticity of labor demand. Using a matched firm-worker dataset, we estimate a long run unconditional labor demand function, exploiting information on workers to correct for endogeneity in...
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Child labor and schooling response to changes in coca production in rural Peru
Dammert, Ana C. (contributor) - 2007
coca leaves from Peru to Colombia in 1995 to analyze the indirect effects of the anti-coca policy on children's allocation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609616