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Evolution and the Growth Process:Natural Selection of Entrepreneurial Traits

Galor, Oded; Michalopoulos, Stelios - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012

economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit … evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human history. In early stages of development, risk-tolerant, growthpromoting traits … process of economic development. Inmature stages of development, however, risk-averse traits gained an evolutionary advantage …

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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?

Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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Meet the Press : How Voters and Politicians Respond to Newspaper Entry and Exit

Drago, Francesco - 2013

This paper evaluates the effects of changes in the supply of news provided by newspapers on electoral participation, political selection, and government efficiency. We address these issues in the Italian context by constructing a new dataset covering the presence of local news by different types...

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Do Better Paid Politicians Perform Better? Disentangling Incentives from Selection

Gagliarducci, Stefano - 2009

The wage paid to politicians affects both the choice of citizens to run for an elective office and the performance of those who are appointed. First, if skilled individuals shy away from politics because of higher opportunities in the private sector, an increase in politicians' pay may change...

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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis

Dreher, Axel - 2009

Using panel data for a maximum of 109 countries over the years 1976-2000, we empirically analyze the impact of decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of transnational terror events in a country, while...

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Politico-Economic Causes of Labor Regulation in the United States : Rent Seeking, Alliances, Raising Rivals' Costs (Even Lowering One's Own?), and Interjurisdictional Competition

Addison, John T. - 2006

This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers' compensation, living wages, and prevailing...

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Term Limit Extension and Electoral Participation : Evidence from a Diff-in-Discontinuities Design at the Local Level in Italy

De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2018

We study the effect of term limits on voter turnout in local Italian elections. Since 2014 the Italian law allows mayors in municipalities with a population size lower than 3,000 inhabitants to re-run for a third term, whereas mayors in cities with a number of residents above the cutoff still...

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Backlash in Attitudes after the Election of Extreme Political Parties

Carlsson, Magnus - 2018

Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political representation at the local level. We study attitudes...

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Reluctant to Reform? A Note on Risk-Loving Politicians and Bureaucrats

Thomas, Tobias - 2017

As from a political economy perspective, politicians often fail to implement structural reforms, we investigate if the resistance to reform is based on the differences in the risk preferences of voters, politicians, and bureaucrats. Based on the empirical results of a survey of the population in...

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Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?

Carlsson, Magnus - 2016

A large theoretical and empirical literature explores whether politicians and political parties change their policy positions in response to voters' preferences. This paper asks the opposite question: do political parties affect public attitudes on important policy issues? Problems of reverse...

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