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Do Perceptions of Ballot Secrecy Influence Turnout? Results from a Field Experiment
Gerber, Alan S.; Huber, Gregory A.; Doherty, David; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
Although the secret ballot has long been secured as a legal matter in the United States, formal secrecy protections are not equivalent to convincing citizens that they may vote privately and without fear of reprisal. We present survey evidence that those who have not previously voted are...
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Trade and Geography in the Origins and Spread of Islam
Michalopoulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
empirical analysis conducted across countries, virtual countries, and ethnicities establishes that geographic inequality and … evidence from historical societies suggesting that geographic inequality (i) increased the importance of trade for subsistence …, and (ii) exacerbated social inequality nurturing a predatory environment. We conjecture that Islam with its moral and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010821941
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The Effect of Education Policy on Crime: An Intergenerational Perspective
Meghir, Costas; Palme, Mårten; Schnabel, Marieke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The intergenerational transmission of human capital and the extent to which policy interventions can affect it is an issue of importance. Policies are often evaluated on either short term outcomes or just in terms of their effect on individuals directly targeted. If such policies shift outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969389
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
's educational achievement, and widening inequality in U.S. labor markets. …
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Collaborating With People Like Me: Ethnic co-authorship within the US
Freeman, Richard B.; Huang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This study examines the ethnic identity of authors in over 2.5 million scientific papers written by US-based authors from 1985 to 2008, a period in which the frequency of English and European names among authors fell relative to the frequency of names from China and other developing countries....
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Differential Fertility, Human Capital, and Development
Vogl, Tom - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Using micro-data from 48 developing countries, I document a recent reversal in the income-fertility relationship and … century's end, both patterns had reversed. Consequently, income differentials in fertility historically raised average … skill returns lowered the minimum income at which parents invest in education. …
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Consolidating the Evidence on Income Mobility in the Western States of Germany and the U.S. from 1984-2006
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Bayaz-Ozturk, Gulgun; Couch, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The cross-national intragenerational income mobility literature assumes within-country mobility is invariant over the … the entire period 1984-2006, we find the conventional result that income mobility is greater in Germany. But when we cut … the data into moving five-year windows and compare mobility before and after reunification, income mobility declines …
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Strategic Parenting, Birth Order and School Performance
Hotz, V. Joseph; Pantano, Juan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Fueled by new evidence, there has been renewed interest about the effects of birth order on human capital accumulation. The underlying causal mechanisms for such effects remain unsettled. We consider a model in which parents impose more stringent disciplinary environments in response to their...
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Estimating Second Order Probability Beliefs from Subjective Survival Data
Hudomiet, Péter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
expectations in 2002 line up very well with realized mortality of the HRS respondents between 2002 and 2010. We show that the MRH …
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Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception
Bailey, Martha J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
This paper assembles new evidence on some of the longer-term consequences of U.S. family planning policies, defined in this paper as those increasing legal or financial access to modern contraceptives. The analysis leverages two large policy changes that occurred during the 1960s and 1970s:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951258