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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis

Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010

We explore the relationship between gambling and other forms of risk-taking behaviour, i.e. exposure to debt and the … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … household level. While both the incidence and amount of gambling vary according to household income, the positive association …

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections: economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

We review the efficacy of three approaches to forecasting elections: econometric models that project outcomes on the basis of the state of the economy; public opinion polls; and election betting (prediction markets). We assess the efficacy of each in light of the 2004 Australian election. This...

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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?

Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2004

Public opinion influences politicians, and therefore influences public policy decisions. What are the roles of self-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially-designed survey, we find that most respondents...

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The struggle for Palestinian hearts and minds: violence and public opinion in the second intifada

Jaeger, David A.; Klor, Esteban F.; Miaari, Sami H.; … - 2008

This paper examines how violence in the Second Intifada influences Palestinian public opinion. Using micro data from a series of opinion polls linked to data on fatalities, we find that Israeli violence against Palestinians leads them to support more radical factions and more radical attitudes...

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Trespassing the threshold of relevance: Media exposure and opinion polls of the Sweden democrats, 2006-2010

Bevelander, Pieter; Hellström, Anders - 2011

In September 2010 the anti-immigration party, the Sweden Democrats (SD), crossed the electoral threshold to the Swedish parliament (Riksdagen) for the first time with 5.7 percent of the total votes. The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of the media exposure on fluctuations in opinion...

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Regional measures of human capital in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Erber, Georg; Glocker, Daniela - 2009

The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...

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Minorities, social capital and voting

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2007

It is widely held that voter turnout among immigrants and ethnic minorities is lower than among the native born. The goal of our paper is to explore the determinants of voting, comparing immigrant, minority and majority citizens in Canada. We use the 2002 wave of the Equality Security Community...

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Elite capture, political voice and exclusion from aid: an experimental study

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - 2008

We experimentally study the influence of local information conditions on elite capture and social exclusion in community-based development schemes with heterogeneous groups. Not only information on the distribution of aid resources through community-based schemes, but also information on who...

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Bureaucratic delay, local-level monitoring, and delivery of small infrastructure projects: Evidence from a field experiment in Bolivia

Yanez-Pagans, Monica; Machicado, Carlos Gustavo - 2012

This paper examines bureaucratic delay within the allocation of small infrastructure projects by sub-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots...

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Homeownership, social capital and parental voice in schooling

Grimes, Arthur; Stillman, Steven; Young, Chris - 2011

We use New Zealand school board of trustees data to examine whether schools where parents have high rates of homeownership experience high parental voting turnout in elections. We also investigate whether homeownership influences the probability that a school board proceeds to election,...

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