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Jobs, Crime, and Votes: A Short-run Evaluation of the Refugee Crisis in Germany

Gehrsitz, Markus; Ungerer, Martin - 2017

Millions of refugees made their way to Europe between 2014 and 2015, with over one million arriving in Germany alone. Yet, little is known about the impact of this inflow on labor markets, crime, and voting behavior. This article uses administrative data on refugee allocation and provides an...

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The Effect of Community Size on Electoral Preferences: Evidence From Post-WWII Southern Germany

Fiorini, Luciana C.; Jetter, Michael; Parmeter, … - 2020

Populous communities often prefer more government involvement than less populous communities, but does community size per se affect citizens' preferences for government? Endogeneity commonly prevents testing for causal effects because (i) people can select into communities while (ii) government...

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Trust and Bribery : The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Hunt, Jennifer - 2004

bribe, which reduces corruption. Appropriate networks are more easily established in small towns, by long-term residents of … battle against corruption faced by policy-makers in rapidly urbanizing countries with high fertility. I show that victims of …

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How Corruption Hits People When They Are Down

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

are desperate, vulnerable, or demanding services particularly prone to corruption. The effect is strongest for bribery of …

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Bribery in Health Care in Peru and Uganda

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper, I examine the role of household income in determining who bribes and how much they bribe in health care in Peru and Uganda. I find that rich patients are more likely than other patients to bribe in public health care: doubling household consumption increases the bribery...

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Trust and Bribery: The Role of the Quid Pro Quo and the Link with Crime

Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated

Schiff, Maurice - 2005

such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education's positive externalities. This paper …) the impact on welfare and growth is smaller as well (for any brain gain size); iii) a positive brain gain is likely to … the stock of human capital may have a negative impact on welfare and growth; and v) in a dynamic framework, the paper …

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Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

such a net brain gain results in an increase in welfare and growth due to education’s positive externalities. This paper …) the impact on welfare and growth is smaller as well (for any brain gain size); iii) a positive brain gain is likely to … the stock of human capital may have a negative impact on welfare and growth; and v) in a dynamic framework, the paper …

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The Long-Run Earnings Effects of Winning a Mayoral Election

Bertoni, Marco; Brunello, Giorgio; Cappellari, Lorenzo; … - 2023

We estimate the effect of winning a mayoral election on long-run licit earnings, which plays a key role in the selection of local political leaders. We use Italian administrative social security data from 1995 to 2017 and a sharp regression discontinuity design based on close elections. Over a...

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On the Escalation and De-Escalation of Conflict

Lacomba, Juan Antonio; Lagos, Francisco; Reuben, Ernesto; … - 2013

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict behavior and repeated interaction on the allocation of effort between production and appropriation. Without repeated interaction, destruction of resources by defeated...

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