anti-corruption enforcement affect the expected quality of governance through candidate self-selection. We also show that …

We explore the links between social capital and labor market networks at the neighborhood level. We harness rich data … networks, data on behavior such as voting patterns that have previously been tied to social capital, and new data – not … neighborhood-level variation in labor market networks. We find evidence suggesting that smaller and less centralized schools, and …

We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data … exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii …) lobbying status is highly persistent over time. Estimating a model of a firm's decision to engage in lobbying, we find …

for the costs of political bargaining and lobbying that arise from implementing and administering government regulation …

This paper employs a novel data set on lobbying expenditures to measure the degree of within-sector political … organization and to explore the determinants of the mode of lobbying and political organization across U.S. industries. The data …