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Gains from Early Support of a New Political Party
Leonardi, Marco; Mossucca, Rossella; Schivardi, Fabiano; … - 2019
We study the potential benefits and mechanisms of firms' political connections by analyzing the Italian experience, where, in the early nineties, Silvio Berlusconi, a rich TV tycoon, became the leader of the conservative political coalition. Using firm-level data, we find that the 101 companies...
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Child care subsidies and child development
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008
of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269366
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Child care subsidies, maternal well-being, and child-parent interactions: Evidence from three nationally representative datasets
Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
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Women political leaders, corruption and learning: Evidence from a large public program in India
Afridi, Farzana; Iversen, Vegard; Sharan, M. R. - 2013
We use the nation-wide policy of randomly allocating village council headships to women to identify the impact of female political leadership on the governance of projects implemented under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India. Using primary survey data, we find more program...
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The Economic Costs of Mass Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Loeffler, Max; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2015
Based on official records from the former East German Ministry for State Security, we quantify the long-term costs of state surveillance on social capital and economic performance. Using county-level variation in the spy density in the 1980s, we exploit discontinuities at state borders to show...
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Political Connections and Firms: Network Dimensions
Bussolo, Maurizio; Commander, Simon; Poupakis, Stavros - 2018
Business and politician interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analysed with a binary approach. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. We use a unique dataset for seven economies that documents politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their links to companies,...
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Institutional Uncertainty and European Social Union : Impacts on Job Creation and Destruction in the CEECs
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias; Hebler, Martin - 2004
With the extension of its competence for social policy legislation in the Maastricht and Amsterdam treaties, the EU has adopted a significantly new social dimension in the past ten years. According to the Copenhagen criteria, the CEEC candidate countries have to adopt the former via the acquis...
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What Makes Small Firms Grow? : Finance, Human Capital, Technical Assistance, and the Business Environment in Romania
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Lup, Dana - 2004
Although the development of a new private sector is generally considered crucial to economic transition, there has been rather little empirical research on the determinants of startup firm growth. This paper uses panel data techniques to analyze a survey of 297 new small enterprises in Romania...
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Migration in the Soviet Successor States
Locher, Lilo - 2002
This paper analyzes the migration behavior of ethnic groups in the former Soviet Un-ion (FSU) from 1989 to 1999. The two main migration movements have been return migration of ethnic groups to their titular nation and migration of all ethnic groups to the Russian Federation. Using factor...
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The determinants of asset stripping: theory and evidence from the transition economies
Campos, Nauro F.; Giovannoni, Francesco - 2005
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this phenomenon, there have been no efforts to model, measure and investigate this process...
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