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The political effects of immigration: culture or economics?

Alesina, Alberto; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

We review the growing literature on the political effects of immigration. After a brief summary of the economics of immigration, we turn to the main focus of the paper: how immigrants influence electoral outcomes in receiving countries, and why. We start from the "standard" view that immigration...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517877

An economic analysis of exclusion restrictions for instrumental variable estimation

Berg, Gerard J. van den (contributor) - 2007

Instrumental variable estimation requires untestable exclusion restrictions. With policy effects on individual outcomes, there is typically a time interval between the moment the agent realizes that he may be exposed to the policy and the actual exposure or the announcement of the actual...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003529746

Female political representation and substantive effects on policies : a literature review

Hessami, Zohal; Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana - 2020

The share of women in political offices has increased considerably over the past few decades in almost every country in the world. Does this matter for policy outcomes? This is the first paper to provide a literature review on the substantive effects of female representation on policies. In...

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Happiness and public policy : a procedural perspective

Stutzer, Alois - 2019

This article comments on the role of empirical subjective well-being research in public policy within a constitutional, procedural perspective of government and state. It rejects the idea that, based on the promises of the measurement, we should adopt a new policy perspective that is oriented...

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Women in political bodies as policymakers

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2023

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Mass reproducibility and replicability : a new hope

Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024

This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512224

Tournaments and office politics : evidence from a real effort experiment

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. (contributor); … - 2007

of sabotage are often subtle manifestations of subjective peer evaluation or "office politics." We discuss a real effort … experiment in which effort, quality adjusted output and office politics are compared under piece rates and tournaments. Our … results suggest that tournaments increase effort only in the absence of office politics. Competitors are more likely to …

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Modeling immigrants' language skills

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2007

One in nine people between the ages of 18 and 64 in the US, and every second foreign-born person in this age bracket, speaks Spanish at home. And whereas around 80 percent of adult immigrants in the US from non-English speaking countries other than Mexico are proficient in English, only about 50...

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The fertility effect of catastrophe : US hurricane births

Evans, Richard W. (contributor); Hu, Yingyao (contributor); … - 2007

For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...

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How disasters affect local labor markets : the effects of hurricanes in Florida

Belasen, Ariel R. (contributor); … - 2007

Exogenous shocks often impact a local labor market more than at the national level. This study improves upon the standard Difference in Difference (DD) approach by examining exogenous shocks using a Generalized Difference in Difference (GDD) econometric approach that identifies the effects of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635285

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