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Trust in public institutions over the business cycle
Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2011
the most suffered the biggest loss in confidence in institutions, particularly in trust in government and the financial …We document that trust in public institutions and particularly trust in banks, business and government has declined … sector. Finally, analysis of several repeated cross-sections of confidence within U.S. states yields similar qualitative …
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Laws and norms
Benabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2012
This paper analyzes how private decisions and public policies are shaped by personal and societal preferences (values), material or other explicit incentives (laws) and social sanctions or rewards (norms). It first examines how honor, stigma and social norms arise from individuals' behaviors and...
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Screening, competition, and job design: economic origins of good jobs
Bartling, Björn; Fehr, Ernst; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2010
In recent decades, many firms offered more discretion to their employees, often increasing the productivity of effort but also leaving more opportunities for shirking. These high-performance work systems are difficult to understand in terms of standard moral hazard models. We show experimentally...
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Do women prefer a co-operative work environment?
Kuhn, Peter J.; Villeval, Marie Claire - 2011
observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less pessimistic about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280692
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Fading hope in the US
Ritzen, Jo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012
A substantial literature claims that the strong increase in inequality over the last decade in countries such as the US would lead to a collapse of society. Fading hopes in the population seem to confirm this. The paper rejects this interpretation since the decline in hopes cannot be traced back...
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Daughters and left-wing voting
Oswald, Andrew J.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2006
This paper provides evidence that daughters make people more left-wing. Having sons, by contrast, makes them more right-wing. Parents, politicians and voters are probably not aware of this phenomenon - nor are social scientists. The paper discusses its economic and evolutionary roots. It also...
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Persistence of civil wars
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2009
persistence of civil wars. The civilian government can successfully defeat rebellious factions only by creating a relatively …
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How prediction markets can save event studies
Snowberg, Erik; Wolfers, Justin; Zitzewitz, Eric - 2011
- from the economic effects of party control of government to the importance of complex rules in congressional committees …
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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 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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Legislative term limits and state aid to local governments
Yakovlev, Pavel; Tosun, Mehmet S.; Lewis, William P. - 2012
We estimate the effect of legislative term limits on various categories of state government spending using the most … state government spending, but no significant positive effect on state education, health, transportation or welfare …
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