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Replicating backfire effects in anti-corruption messaging : a comment on Cheeseman and Peiffer (2022)
Bergeron-Boutin, Olivier; Ciobanu, Costin; Cohen, Guila; … - 2023
Cheeseman and Peiffer (2022) field a survey experiment in Nigeria to test the effect of five different anti-corruption … and could, in fact, increase bribes. They further show that these counterproductive effects of anti-corruption messages … are especially pernicious for participants who believe corruption is widespread, whom they call "Pessimistic Perceivers …
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A comment on "Kin networks and institutional development"
Degroot, Jean; Gobbi, Paula E.; Ramos, Alejandra; Wei, Xinyu - 2024
Schulz (2022) shows how weak kin networks contributed to the rise of participatory institutions and how the medieval Catholic Church marriage regulations prohibitions contributed to the process by destroying European clan-based kin networks. Three pieces of evidence construct the argument....
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Spurious regressions and panel IV estimation : revisiting the causes of conflict
Christian, Paul; Barrett, Christopher B. - 2022
The long-recognized spurious regressions problem can lead to mistaken inference in panel instrumental variables (IV) estimation. Spurious correlations arising from correlated cycles in finite time horizons can make irrelevant instruments appear strong with signable consequences for estimated IV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414283
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Response to "On the Empirical Validity of "Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps not Bumps""
Holman, Mirya R.; Merolla, Jennifer L.; Zechmeister, … - 2023 - Updated Version, July 19
Jetter and Stockley (2023) successfully replicate nearly all 140 analyses we report in the original paper and appendix. In the process, they identified two errors. We appreciate this effort and made corrections to the data and code. Revising the analyses to correct these errors results in small...
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On the empirical validity of "Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps not Bumps" (Holman et al., 2022)
Jetter, Michael; Stockley, Kieran - 2023
Holman et al. (2022; HMZ) propose women (compared to men) political leaders experience significant drops in public approval ratings after a transnational terrorist attack. After documenting how survey-based evaluations of then-Prime Minister Theresa May suffered after the 2017 Manchester Arena...
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A comment on "Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries" by Hanushek et al. (2021)
Gendre, Alexandra de; Feld, Jan; Salamanca, Nicolás - 2023
Hanushek et al. (2021) test how country-level measures of patience and risk-taking from the Global Preference Survey predict student performance on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) math test. They find that country-level patience positively predicts math test scores and...
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A comment on "The Relative Efficiency of Skilled Labor across Countries: Measurement and Interpretation" by Rossi (2022)
Campos-Rodríguez, Santiago; Chung, Jong Hyun - 2023
Rossi (2022) examines the relative efficiency of skilled workers across countries. He finds the elasticity of skill efficiency with respect to GDP per worker is 1.4 and that the relative human capital accounts for only about 9 percent. We reproduce the paper's main findings and test the...
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A comment on Xu (2022) : reshaping global trade: the immediate and long-term effects of bank failures
Bérard, Guillaume; Freitas, Dimitria; Verma, Priyam - 2023
, based on historical data on the trades and loans between London banks and banks around the world, show that countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438030
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Response to "On the Empirical Validity of "Gendered Reactions to Terrorist Attacks Can Cause Slumps not Bumps""
Holman, Mirya R.; Merolla, Jennifer L.; Zechmeister, … - 2023
Consider that a major lethal attack is perpetrated by international terrorists in two countries (A, B) that are identical in every respect, except that the leader of country A is a man and the leader of country B is a woman. The rally ‘round the flag framework predicts a boost in public...
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Computational and robustness reproducibility of "UN Peacekeeping and Democratization in Conflict-Affected Countries"
Oswald, Christian; Walterskirchen, Julian - 2024
Blair et al. (2023) examine the effect of UN peacekeeping on democratization in conflict-affected countries. They use fixed effects and instrumental variable estimators and find evidence that "UN missions with democracy promotion mandates are strongly positively correlated with the quality of...
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