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to be elected from a constituency, participation by large number of parties, and existence of a dominant party depress …
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We examine how political participation and political competition are shaped by two class-based extensions of the …
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voters negatively react to the introduction of the reform and in particular electoral participation decreases by about 5 …
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variation in program enrollment across voting booths. We find that FA has a positive effect on political participation in the …
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We analyze the impact of the quality of candidates running for a mayor position on turnout using a large data set on Italian municipal elections held from 1993 to 2011. We firstly estimate a municipal fixed effects model and show that an increase in the average quality of candidates competing at...
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This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
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women's participation over 2011-13. We exploit the geographical heterogeneity along these two margins to conduct a double …
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This paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the …
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Estimates of the level of inequality of opportunity have traditionally been interpreted as lower bounds due to the downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect individual outcome. We show that such estimates may also suffer from upward bias as a consequence...
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The theoretical literature on inequality of opportunity formulates basic properties that measures of inequality of opportunity should have. Standard methods for the measurement of inequality of opportunity require the construction of counterfactual outcome distributions through statistical...
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