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Gender Differences in Cooperative Environments? Evidence from the U.S. Congress

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2016

This paper uses data on bill sponsorship and cosponsorship in the U.S. House of Representatives to estimate gender differences in cooperative behavior. We employ a number of econometric methodologies to address the potential selection of female representatives into electoral districts with...

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Mind the Gap : Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US

Marx, Ive - 2012

This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...

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Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment : The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

Bazen, Stephen - 2016

In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...

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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes. We focus on particular...

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Terrorism and Voting Behavior : Evidence from the United States

Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel; Nossek, Sean; Shor, Eran - 2021

This paper examines the impact of terrorism on voting behavior in the United States. We rely on an exhaustive list of terror attacks over the period 1970-2016 and exploit the inherent randomness of the success or failure of terror attacks to identify the political impacts of terrorism. We first...

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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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Gender Differences in Political Career Progression : Evidence from U.S. Elections

Brown, Ryan - 2019

This paper establishes the presence of a substantial gender gap in the relationship between state legislature service and the subsequent pursuit of a Congressional career. The empirical approach uses a sample of mixed-gender elections to compare the differential political career progression of...

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Is Leisure a Normal Good? Evidence from the European Parliament

Mocan, Naci H. - 2011

Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …

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Returns to Office in National and Local Politics

Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2016

system. We apply the method to the Finnish proportional open list system. Being elected to parliament increases annual …

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Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?

Giulietti, Corrado - 2011

This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of immigrants are a function of the expected wage growth induced by the minimum wage. The analysis focuses on the US minimum wage increase of 1996 and 1997, using data from the Current...

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