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Within and between gender disparities in income and education benefits from democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2007

There is data evidence that welfare has improved post democracy in Nigeria. However, the distribution or concentration …, across and within gender, post democracy in Nigeria is explored. I make use of simple econometric tools to test two null … in Nigeria. Second, there are no within gender disparities of the shift to democracy on income and returns to education …

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Within and Between Gender Disparities in Income and Education Benefits from Democracy

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth Osarenti Oyelere nee Uwaifo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233750

Echoes of the Past: The Enduring Impact of Communism on Contemporary Freedom of Speech Values

Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings – East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show...

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Coming Out in America: AIDS, Politics, and Cultural Change

Fernández, Raquel; Parsa, Sahar; Viarengo, Martina - 2019

The last few decades witnessed a dramatic change in public opinion towards gay people. This paper studies the hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic was a shock that changed the incentive to "come out" and that the ensuing process of mobilization and endogenous political process led to cultural...

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Religious Riots and Electoral Politics in India

Iyer, Sriya; Shrivastava, Anand - 2015

elections and control variables on demographics and public goods provision to construct a unique panel data set for 16 large …

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Immigration to the U.S.: A Problem for the Republicans or the Democrats?

Mayda, Anna Maria; Peri, Giovanni; Steingress, Walter - 2015

, consistent with the typical view of political analysts in the U.S. This average effect – which is driven by elections in the …

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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic

Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - 2014

Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova during the following decade...

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Who Runs? Honesty and Self-Selection into Politics

Fehrler, Sebastian; Fischbacher, Urs; Schneider, Maik T. - 2016

We examine the incentives to self-select into politics and how they depend on the transparency of the entry process. To this end, we set up a two-stage political competition model and test its key mechanisms in the lab. At the entry stage, potential candidates compete in a contest to become...

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Sozioökonomische Determinanten extremistischer Wahlerfolge in Deutschland: Das Beispiel der Europawahlen 1994 und 1999

Rotte, Ralph; Steininger, Martin - 2000

-wing ?Republikaner? party and the left-wing Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) in the two recent elections of the European Parliament in …

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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 …

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