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variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We find that FA has a positive effect on political participation in the …
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Millions of people in the US are eligible to vote despite past criminal convictions, but their voter participation …
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We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the …
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A substantial number of studies suggests a strong relationship between education and aspects of political participation … and the full sample, indicating that the reform did not stimulate long-term changes in political participation and …
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data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during … the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on votes received by Democratic and Republican … candidates. Beginning with the 1994 elections, there is a strong, positive association between HIV/AIDS mortality and the vote …
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The income gradient in political participation is a widely accepted stylized fact. This article asks how income effects …
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(in a wide sense). This may be explained in terms of increasing financial obstacles to social participation. -- life … satisfaction ; relative income ; value function ; loss aversion ; social participation …
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We establish an inverse relationship between family ties, generalized trust and political participation. The more … political participation. The latter, together with trust, are part of what is known as social capital, therefore in this paper …
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. -- participation bias ; laboratory experiments …
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variation in incorporation policies. Also, this chapter traces different dimensions of political participation of immigrants …
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