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Religion, Politician Identity and Development Outcomes : Evidence from India
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2013
This paper investigates whether the religious identity of state legislators in India influences development outcomes, both for citizens of their religious group and for the population as a whole. To control for politician identity to be correlated with constituency level voter preferences or...
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Trust in Public Institutions Over the Business Cycle
Stevenson, Betsey - 2011
We document that trust in public institutions ﾖ and particularly trust in banks, business and government ﾖ has declined … the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …
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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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Do Migrants Improve Governance at Home? Evidence from a Voting Experiment
Batista, Catia - 2010
This paper tests the hypothesis that international migration experiences may promote better institutions at home by raising the demand for political accountability. In order to examine this question, we use a simple postcard voting experiment designed to capture the populationﾒs desire for...
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The Political Scar of Epidemics
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2020
What will be political legacy of the Coronavirus pandemic? We find that epidemic exposure in an individual's "impressionable years" (ages 18 to 25) has a persistent negative effect on confidence in political institutions and leaders. We find similar negative effects on confidence in public...
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Local Electoral Incentives and Decentralized Program Performance
de Janvry, Alain - 2010
This paper analyzes how electoral incentives affected the performance of a major decentralized conditional cash transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this federal program successfully reduced school dropout by 8...
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Electoral Impacts of Uncovering Public School Quality : Evidence from Brazilian Municipalities
Firpo, Sergio - 2012
interesting example: Most of primary public schools are run by municipal officials and federal government cannot enforce the … public elementary education we provide evidence that in 2008 local election, just some months after the publication of the … second wave of a new evaluation of public schools run every two years by federal government, mayors became electorally …
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The Impact of Incumbency on Turnout : Evidence from Italian Municipalities
De Benedetto, Marco Alberto - 2013
We analyze how having an incumbent among candidates affects electoral turnout. We use a rich data set providing information on the electoral results of Italian municipal elections over the period 1993-2011. Endogeneity issues are handled through an instrumental variable approach using the mayor...
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Competing on Good Politicians
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009
local government experience − are more likely to run in a contestable district. Indeed, despite being different on average …
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Terrorism, Political Opinions, and Election Outcomes : Evidence from Europe
Peri, Giovanni - 2020
comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results … trust they have in government. International terror attacks are, however, associated with an increase in the vote share …
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