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Dancing with the populist: new parties, electoral rules and Italian municipal elections
Bordignon, Massimo; Colussi, Tommaso - 2020
This paper develops a theoretical framework that makes predictions on (a) the conditions under which a populist party decides to run and the policy position it takes and (b) voters' response under different electoral systems. We test these predictions using data on Italian municipal elections...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296208
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Minority groups and success in election primaries
Epstein, Gil S.; Heizler, Odelia - 2018
In this paper, we focus on the effect of belonging to one or more minority groups on the probability of success in primary elections. Using a unique dataset of candidates in Israeli primaries, we find that while being a new immigrant, a woman or a Muslim decreases the chances of electoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810012
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Is partisan alignment electorally rewarding? : evidence from village council elections in India
Dey, Subhasish; Sen, Kunal - 2016
Do ruling parties positively discriminate in favour of their own constituencies in allocating public resources? If they do, do they gain electorally in engaging in such a practice? This paper tests whether partisan alignment exists in the allocation of funds for India's largest social protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011493833
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Partisan fertility and presidential elections
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lu, Runjing; Mullins, William - 2021
the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify the effects of a shift in political power on one of the most consequential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012800554
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Backlash in attitudes after the election of extreme political parties
Carlsson, Magnus; Dahl, Gordon B.; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2018
from the right and one from the left, using panel data from 290 municipal election districts. To identify causal effects … incumbency advantage in the next election. Exploring possible mechanisms, we find evidence that when the anti-immigrant party … wins a marginal seat, they experience higher levels of politician turnover before the next election and receive negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898924
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Earmarking and the political support of fat taxes
Cremer, Helmuth; Goulão, Catarina; Roeder, Kerstin - 2015
A fat and a healthy good provide immediate gratification, and cause health costs or benefits in the long run, which are misperceived. Additionally, the fat good (healthy good) increases (decreases) health care costs by increasing (decreasing) the probability of suffering from a chronic disease...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336980
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The Wooldridge method for the initial values problem is simple : what about performance?
Akay, Alpaslan (contributor) - 2009
dynamic random-effects panel data models. This characteristic of the method makes it very attractive in empirical applications … with balanced and unbalanced panel data sets, and also two full length empirical applications are provided. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794131
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A computationally practical simulation estimation algorithm for dynamic panel data models with unobserved endogenous state variables
Keane, Michael P.; Sauer, Robert M. - 2009
This paper develops a simulation estimation algorithm that is particularly useful for estimating dynamic panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824296
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An exponential class of dynamic binary choice panel data models with fixed effects
Al-Sadoon, Majid M.; Li, Tong; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012
This paper develops a model for dynamic binary choice panel data that allows for unobserved heterogeneity to be … finite sample performance of our GMM estimators. -- dynamic discrete choice ; fixed effects ; panel data ; initial values …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680993
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Consistent estimation of the fixed effects ordered logit model
Baetschmann, Gregori; Staub, Kevin E.; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2011
The paper re-examines existing estimators for the panel data fixed effects ordered logit model, proposes a new one, and … effect of unemployment on life satisfaction. -- ordered response ; panel data ; correlated heterogeneity ; incidental …
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