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Gender differences in cooperative environments? : evidence from the U.S. congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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Television market size and political accountability in the US house of representatives

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2022

This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to report relatively more per US House representative in less populous markets (where the number of...

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Hurricanes, climate change policies and electoral accountability

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Paserman, Marco Daniele; … - 2019

This paper studies how politicians and voters respond to new information on the threats of climate change. Using data on the universe of federal disaster declarations between 1989 and 2014, we document that congress members from districts hit by a hurricane are more likely to support bills...

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Internal migration in the United States

Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; Wozniak, Abigail K. - 2011

We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across demographic and socioeconomic groups, as well as for moves of...

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Determinants of immigrant homeownership : examining their changing role during the Great Recession and beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2013

The Great Recession had significant economic effects both in the U.S. and around the world. There is evidence that homeownership rates declined during this period, though some immigrants were less severely affected compared to natives. In this paper we investigate the role of several factors in...

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Labor market networks and recovery from mass layoffs before, during, and after the Great Recession

Hellerstein, Judith K.; Kutzbach, Mark J.; Neumark, David - 2016

We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass layoffs. Because networks can only be effective when hiring is occurring, we focus on a measure of the strength of the labor market network that includes not only the...

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Health and well-being in the crisis

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Minority and immigrant homeownership experience : evidence from the 2009 American Housing Survey

Mundra, Kusum - 2013

Using data from the 2009 American Housing Survey and Hazard Model, this paper provides empirical evidence that the homeownership experience during the recent housing boom and housing bust was not homogenous across all groups in the U.S. The recent deterioration of underwriting practices and a...

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Is leisure a normal good? : evidence from the European Parliament

Mocan, Naci; Altindag, Duha Tore - 2011

Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

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Returns to office in national and local politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa; Poutvaara, Panu; Terviö, Marko - 2016

system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …

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