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American idol : evidence of same-race preferences?

Lee, Jungmin (contributor) - 2006

. -- customer discrimination ; TV viewership ; voting …

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The political economy of propaganda : evidence from US newspapers

Ottinger, Sebastian; Winkler, Max - 2022

We study the impact of the first American party committed to redistribution from rich to poor on anti-Black media content in the 1890s. The Populist Party sought support among poor farmers, regardless of race, providing the segregationist Democratic establishment in the South with an incentive...

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Differential patterns between private and public sector wages in Spain

León, Alba Couceiro de; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022

This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...

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It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman! : using mass media to fight intolerance

Armand, Alex; Atwell, Paul; Gomes, Joseph Flavian; … - 2024

This paper investigates the role of mass media in shaping racial tolerance and advancing civil rights in the post-WWII United States. We study the first attempt in the history of mass media to use a radio broadcast targeted at children to promote an inclusive American society. In 1946, amid...

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Special interest groups versus voters and the political economics of attention

Balles, Patrick; Matter, Ulrich; Stutzer, Alois - 2018

Asymmetric information between voters and legislative representatives poses a major challenge to the functioning of representative democracy. We examine whether representatives are more likely to serve long-term campaign donors instead of constituents during times of low media attention to...

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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right : (unexpected) results from Austria

Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...

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Reducing racial inequality in access to the ballot reduces racial inequality in children's later-life outcomes

Jones, Daniel B.; Shi, Ying - 2022

The Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 removed barriers to voting for Black Americans in the South; existing work …-being of children, and in doing so document that the immediate effects of expanded voting access last well into the next …

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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany

Bredtmann, Julia - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...

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Immigration and voting patterns in the European Union: evidence from five case studies and cross-country analysis

Grumstrup, Ethan; Sørensen, Todd A.; Misiuna, Jan; … - 2021

relationship between immigration and far-right voting, which has found mixed and nuanced evidence of immigration increasing far … study. Our analysis finds little evidence that immigrant populations are related to changes in voting for the right. Our … finding gives evidence that factors other than immigration are the true cause of rises in right voting. …

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Jobs, crime, and votes : a short-run evaluation of the refugee crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017

. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses …

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