We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for …-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we instrument party membership with information on whether family members were … affected by the Second World War. Instrumental variable results suggest that links to the former Communist party increase the …

Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few … experiment in Tea Party support using rain on the day of the first Tea Party rally indicates the anti-Census and anti …-survey rhetoric of the Tea Party did not increase refusals …