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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021

Constitutional Amendment, the adoption of which lifted the immunity of 132 of the 550 members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that … immunity from prosecution impacts how the Members of the Parliament (MPs) act and perform their duties in the Parliament … diligent in the Parliament (drafting fewer pieces of legislation, initiating fewer investigation inquiries, delivering fewer …

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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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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA

Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor); … - 2008

SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a factor decomposition method described by Shorrocks (1982) is applied … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …

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Intrafamily resource allocations : a dynamic model of birth weight

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Ermisch, John (contributor); … - 2008

This paper estimates a model of dynamic intrahousehold investment behavior which incorporates family fixed effects and child endowment heterogeneity. This framework is applied to large American and British survey data on birth outcomes, with focus on the effects of antenatal parental smoking and...

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Where do the brainy Italians go?

Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...

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Inequality of learning amongst immigrant children in industrialised countries

Schnepf, Sylke Viola (contributor) - 2008

, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, UK and USA. Results indicate that for almost all countries immigrants …

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Understanding the technology of computer technology diffusion : explaining computer adoption patterns and implications for the wage structure

Borghans, Lex (contributor); Weel, Bas ter (contributor) - 2008

We review the empirical literature about the implications of the computerization of the labor market to see whether it can explain observed computer adoption patterns and (long-term) changes in the wage structure. Evidence from empirical micro studies turns out to be inconsistent with macro...

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The distribution of total work in the EU and US

Burda, Michael C. (contributor); … - 2006

Using two time-diary data sets each for Germany, Italy the Netherlands and the U.S. from 1985-2003, we demonstrate that Americans work more than Europeans: 1) in the market; 2) in total (market and home production)-- there is no one-for-one tradeoff across countries in total work; 3) at unusual...

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