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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
-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …
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Ideology
Bénabou, Roland - 2008
remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better and their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2011
right use beauty as a cue for candidate ideology or quality in the municipal elections. …
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Economic science and political influence
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2012
When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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Promotions, demotions, halo effects and earnings dynamics of American executives
Belzil, Christian; Bognanno, Michael - 2005
This paper explores the dynamics of wage growth in corporate hierarchies. Using panel data techniques, we estimate the causal effect of current and past transitions in reporting level and past earnings growth on components of current earnings and earnings growth using a large panel of US...
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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management
Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012
This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...
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Why are economics students more selfish than the rest?
Bauman, Yoram; Rose, Elaina - 2009
A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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Explaining Governors' Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States
Baccini, Leonardo; Brodeur, Abel - 2020
What is the response of US governors to the COVID-19 pandemic? In this research note, we explore the determinants of implementing stay-at-home orders, focusing on governors' characteristics. In our most conservative estimate, being a Democratic governor increases the probability of implementing...
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The Wage Policy of Firms - Comparative Evidence for the U.S. and Germany from Personnel Data
Grund, Christian - 2002
production processes in different institutional environments are inspected. Convex wage profiles over the hierarchy levels of … intra-level wage inequality and yearly promotion rate. In contrast, wages are more distinctly attached to hierarchy levels …
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Relative performance pay, bonuses, and job-promotion tournaments
Kräkel, Matthias; Schöttner, Anja - 2008
variation within hierarchy levels, (2) promotion premiums only in part explain hierarchical wage differences and (3) external … recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments … with higher-level bonus payments in a two-tier hierarchy. Moreover, we show that under certain conditions the firm …
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