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Family Ties and Political Participation
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
We establish an inverse relationship between family ties and political participation, such that the more individuals rely on the family as a provider of services, insurance, transfer of resources, the lower is one's civic engagment and political participation. We also show that strong family...
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Politics 2.0 : The Multifaceted Effect of Broadband Internet on Political Participation
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We investigate the causal impact of broadband Internet on political participation using data from Italy. We show that this impact varies across different forms of political engagement and over time. Initially, broadband had a negative effect on turnout in national elections, driven by increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082159
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Gaming in Air Pollution Data? Lessons from China
Chen, Yuyu - 2013
Protecting the environment during economic growth is a challenge facing every country. This paper focuses on two regulatory measures that China has adopted to incentivize air quality improvement: publishing a daily air pollution index (API) for major cities since 2000 and linking the API to...
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The Price of Political Opposition : Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2009
In 2004, the Chávez regime in Venezuela distributed the list of several million voters whom had attempted to remove him from office throughout the government bureaucracy, allegedly to identify and punish these voters. We match the list of petition signers distributed by the government to...
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The Impact of State-Level Nutrition-Education Program Funding on BMI : Evidence from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
McGeary, Kerry Anne - 2010
), American Chamber of Commerce Research Association (ACCRA) state-level food prices and the United States Department of … Agriculture's (USDA) funding of state-specific nutrition-education programs from 1992 - 2006. During this period, federal funding … for state-specific nutrition-education programs rose from approximately $600 thousand for a few states to nearly $248 …
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A Letter and Encouragement : Does Information Increase Post-Secondary Enrollment of Ui Recipients?
Barr, Andrew - 2017
For individuals who experience job loss, enrollment in post-secondary programs may provide an opportunity to improve future employment outcomes. However, decisions to enroll may be hampered by insufficient information about the benefits and costs and the necessary steps and assistance available...
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Measuring the Effects of Federal Reserve Forward Guidance and Asset Purchases on Financial Markets
Swanson, Eric T. - 2017
I extend the methods of G ̈urkaynak, Sack, and Swanson (2005) to separately identify the effects of Federal Reserve forward guidance and large-scale asset purchases (LSAPs) during the 2009–15 U.S. zero lower bound (ZLB) period. I find that both forward guidance and LSAPs had substantial and...
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Non-Monetary News in Central Bank Communication
Cieslak, Anna - 2018
We quantify the importance of non-monetary news in central bank communication. Using evidence from four major central banks and a comprehensive classification of events, we decompose news conveyed by central banks into news about monetary policy, economic growth, and separately, shocks to risk...
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Learning from Prices : Public Communication and Welfare
Amador, Manuel - 2008
We study the effect of releasing public information about productivity or monetary shocks when agents learn from nominal prices. While public releases have the benefit of providing new information, they can have the cost of reducing the informational efficiency of the price system. We show that,...
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Using Models to Persuade
Schwartzstein, Joshua - 2019
We present a framework for analyzing “model persuasion.” Persuaders influence receivers' beliefs by proposing models (likelihood functions) that specify how to organize past data (e.g., on investment performance) to make predictions (e.g., about future returns). Receivers are assumed to find...
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