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What Drives Media Slant? Evidence from U.S. Daily Newspapers
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2010
confirms an economically significant demand for news slanted toward one's own political ideology. Firms respond strongly to …
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Elections, Ideology, and Turnover in the U.S. Federal Government
Bolton, Alexander - 2016
A defining feature of public sector employment is the regular change in elected leadership. Yet, we know little about how elections influence careers. We describe how elections can alter policy outputs and disrupt civil servants' influence over agency decisions, potentially shaping their career...
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The Seeds of Ideology : Historical Immigration and Political Preferences in the United States
Giuliano, Paola; Tabellini, Marco - 2022
We test the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today. We …-lasting effect on the political ideology of US born individuals. Our analysis proceeds in three steps. First, we document that the … historical presence of European immigrants is associated with a more liberal political ideology and with stronger preferences for …
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Mandatory Retirement for Judges Improved Performance on U.S. State Supreme Courts
Ash, Elliott; MacLeod, W. Bentley - 2022
Anecdotal evidence often points to aging as a cause for reduced work performance. This paper provides empirical evidence on this issue in a context where performance is measurable and there is variation in mandatory retirement policies: U.S. state supreme courts. We find that introducing...
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The Anatomy of French Production Hierarchies
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We use a comprehensive dataset of French manufacturing firms to study their internal organization. We first divide the employees of each firm into `layers' using occupational categories. Layers are hierarchical in that the typical worker in a higher layer earns more, and the typical firm...
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The Allocation of Authority in Organizations : A Field Experiment with Bureaucrats
Bandiera, Oriana - 2020
hierarchy.Institutional subscribers to the NBER working paper series, and residents of developing countries may download this …
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The Return to Knowledge Hierarchies
Garicano, Luis - 2010
, increasing the ratio between the 95th and 50th percentiles from 3.7 to 4.8. We conclude that the impact of hierarchy on …
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Products and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - 2021
Firms' decisions about which goods to produce are often made at a more disaggregate level than the data observed by empirical researchers. When products differ according to production technique or the way in which they enter demand, this data aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard...
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Mentoring and Diversity
Athey, Susan; Avery, Christopher; Zemsky, Peter B. - 2021
This paper studies the forces which determine how diversity at a firm evolves over time. We consider a dynamic model o a single firm with two levels of employees, the entry level and the upper level. In each period, the firm selects a subset of the entry-level workers for promotion to the upper...
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The Firm as a Dedicated Hierarchy : A Theory of the Origin and Growth of Firms
Rajan, Raghuram G.; Zingales, Luigi - 2021
A fundamental problem entrepreneurs face in the formative stages of their businesses is how to provide incentives for employees to protect, rather than steal, the source of organizational rents. We study how the entrepreneur's response to this problem will determine the organization's internal...
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