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Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021

this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying the association with five different democracy measures, this study …

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The urgent need for an economics of "hategoatism"

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word "scapegoat" is defined as "a person made to bear the blame for others," and similarly, "scapegoatism" refers to "the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself" (Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary.com,...

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The relationship between economic growth and democracy : alternative representations of technological change

Kim, Nam-Seok; Heshmati, Almas - 2017

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

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How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Vu Minh Ngo; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Nguyen Van Phuc; … - 2021 - Draft: November 11, 2021

Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP),...

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Protests, long-term preferences, and populism : evidence from 1968 in Europe

Fazio, Andrea - 2023

In 1968, young people grew up in an atmosphere of strong dissatisfaction and distrust against the status quo. We show that higher exposure to protests in 1968 leads to higher dissatisfaction toward national governments and raises the probability of voting for populist parties. Consistently with...

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Human capital and climate change

Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023

Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for proclimate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law...

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Hate at first sight? : dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration : the case of Ukip

Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019

In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...

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Confidence in public institutions is critical in containing the COVID-19 pandemic

Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes - 2021

This paper investigates the relative importance of confidence in public institutions to explain cross-country differences in the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. We extend the related literature by employing regression and machine learning methods to identify the most critical predictors of...

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Do elections accelerate the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from a natural experiment

Palguta, Ján; Levínský, René; Škoda, Samuel - 2021

Elections define representative democracies, but also produce spikes in physical mobility if voters need to travel to electoral rooms. In this paper, we examine whether large-scale, in-person elections propagate the spread of COVID-19. We exploit a natural experiment from the Czech Republic...

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The COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 U.S. presidential election

Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Weymouth, Stephen - 2021

What is the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the 2020 U.S. presidential election? Guided by a pre-analysis plan, we estimate the effect of COVID- 19 cases and deaths on the change in county-level voting for Donald Trump between 2016 and 2020. To account for potential confounders, we include a...

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