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Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope
Brodeur, Abel; Mikola, Derek; Cook, Nikolai - 2024
This study pushes our understanding of research reliability by reproducing and replicating claims from 110 papers in leading economic and political science journals. The analysis involves computational reproducibility checks and robustness assessments. It reveals several patterns. First, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533953
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The Effect on Foreign Direct Investment of Membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph Luca; Campos, Nauro F.; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322467
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Did the "Bologna Process" Achieve Its Goals? 20 Years of Empirical Evidence on Student Enrolment, Study Success and Labour Market Outcomes
Kroher, Martina; Leuze, Kathrin; Thomsen, Stephan L.; … - 2021
years later, we examine whether these goals were met by reviewing quantitative articles from sociology and economics. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882333
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A theory of military dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268860
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319503
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Democracy, Dictatorship and the Cultural Transmission of Political Values
Ticchi, Davide; Verdier, Thierry; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state … and the state. Parents invest resources in order to transmit their own political values (commitment to democracy) to their … between political regimes and political culture diffusion. Consolidated democracy emerges when sufficiently many people are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667865
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A Theory of Military Dictatorships
Acemoglu, Daron; Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
more important consequence of the presence of a strong military is that once transition to democracy takes place, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761843
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2015
, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531709
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Does Exposure to Economics Bring New Majors to the Field? Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Fricke, Hans; Grogger, Jeff; Steinmayr, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
, economics, or law. Due to oversubscription of business, the university assigns the field of the paper in a standardized way that … is unrelated to student characteristics. We find that being assigned to write in economics raises the probability of … majoring in economics by 2.7 percentage points, which amounts to 18 percent of the share of students who major in economics. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269603
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Close Encounters of the European Kind: Economic Integration, Sectoral Heterogeneity and Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F.; Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2020
This paper addresses two main questions: (a) Has European integration hindered the implementation of labour, financial and product market structural reforms? (b) Do the effects of these reforms vary more across sectors than across countries? Using more granular reform measures, longer time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322505