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Intergenerational income mobility in urban China
Honge Gong, Cathy; Leigh, Andrew; Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003942248
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Job satisfaction and the labor market institutions in urban China
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William S.; Wei, Xiangdong - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858879
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The economics of communist party membership : the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John B.; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688799
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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315433
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The politicized pandemic: ideological polarization and the behavioral response to COVID-19
Grimalda, Gianluca; Murtin, Fabrice; Pipke, David; … - 2022
correlates positively with adherence to protective behaviors. Liberal political ideology predicts higher levels of protective … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805879
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Who said or what said? : estimating ideological bias in views among economists
Javdani, Mohsen; Chang, Ha-joon - 2019
There exists a long-standing debate about the influence of ideology in economics. Surprisingly, however, there is no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012133338
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The ideological roots of institutional change
Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared - 2017
Restoration in Qing China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641551
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003925572
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On the heterogeneity of terror
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Liebert, Helge; Schulze, Günther G. - 2012
The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according to their ideologies. We show that the pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548192
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How do voters respond to information? : evidence from a randomized campaign
Kendall, Chad; Nannicini, Tommaso; Trebbi, Francesco - 2013
expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … ideology. We find that both valence and ideological messages affect the first and second moments of the belief distribution …, but only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009730833