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Immigrant Voters, Taxation and the Size of the Welfare State
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2018
This paper studies the impact of immigration on public policy setting. As a natural experiment, we exploit the sudden arrival of eight million forced migrants in West Germany after World War II. These migrants were on average poorer than the West German population, but unlike most international...
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Redistributive Politics and Market Efficiency : An Experimental Study
Großer, Jens - 2011
We study the interaction between competitive markets that produce large but unequally distributed welfare gains and elections through which the poor majority can redistribute income away from the rich minority. In our simple laboratory democracy, subjects first earn their income by trading in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134222
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Symmetric and Asymmetric Committees
Ben-Yashar, Ruth - 2011
This paper studies the assignment of decision makers to two committees that make decisions by a simple majority rule. There is an even number of decision makers at each of various skill levels and each committee has an odd number of members. Surprisingly, even with the symmetric assumptions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123565
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Competition, Cooperation, and Collective Choice
Markussen, Thomas - 2012
The ability of groups to implement efficiency-enhancing institutions is emerging as a central theme of research in economics. This paper explores voting on a scheme of intergroup competition which facilitates cooperation in a social dilemma situation. Experimental results show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104948
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Spillover Effects of Institutions on Cooperative Behavior, Preferences and Beliefs
Engl, Florian - 2017
Institutions are an important means for fostering prosocial behaviors, but in many contexts their scope is limited and they govern only a subset of all socially desirable acts. We use a laboratory experiment to study how the presence and nature of an institution that enforces prosocial behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955037
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Voting Power and Survival : The Case of a Ruling Party
Jelnov, Artyom - 2019
In this article, we empirically study the survival of the ruling party in parliamentary democracies using a hazard rate model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general probabilistic model of political crises and test it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868829
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The Political Resource Curse
Brollo, Fernanda - 2010
politicians, both with theory and data. The theory is based on a version of the career concerns model of political agency with … implications of the theory and identify the causal effect of larger federal transfers on political corruption and the observed … features of political candidates at the municipal level. In accordance with the predictions of the theory, we find that larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148349
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Preferences for Childcare Policies : Theory and Evidence
Borck, Rainald; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from...
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The Right Look : Conservative Politicians Look Better and Their Voters Reward it
Berggren, Niclas - 2011
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
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Tying Your Enemy's Hands in Close Races : The Politics of Federal Transfers in Brazil
Brollo, Fernanda - 2011
This paper uses a quasi-experimental strategy to disclose utterly political reasons behind the allocation of intergovernmental transfers in a federal state. We apply a regression discontinuity design in close elections to identify the effect of political alignment on federal transfers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125140