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To Segregate or to Integrate : Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David - 2007
public schooling. We develop a theory which integrates private education and fertility decisions with voting on public … theory are consistent with state-level and micro data from the United States as well as cross-country evidence from the PISA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465331
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Democracy and Protectionism
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2006
political economy implications of trade theory hypothesis using data on democracy, factor endowments, and protection in the late …Does democracy encourage free trade? It depends. Broadening the franchise involves transferring power from non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466418
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Democracy Undone. Systematic Minority Advantage in Competitive Vote Markets
Casella, Alessandra - 2012
. In a large electorate, the numerical advantage of the majority becomes irrelevant: democracy is undone by the market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460087
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Inefficient Investment Waves
He, Zhiguo - 2012
We develop a dynamic model of trading and investment with limited aggregate resources to study investment cycles. Unverifiable idiosyncratic investment opportunities imply market prices to play a role of rent distribution, distorting private investment incentives from a social point of view....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460443
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Gender and Electoral Incentives : Evidence from Crisis Response
Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Tricaud, Clemence - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper provides new evidence on why men and women leaders make different choices. We first use a simple political agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different policies. We then test the model's predictions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544689
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Voting and Political Participation in the Aftermath of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
Mansour, Hani - 2020
This is the first study to examine the effect of experiencing a widespread, deadly epidemic on voting behavior. Using data on elections to the U.S House of Representatives and leveraging cross-district variation in HIV/AIDS mortality during the period 1983-1987, we document the effects of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481066
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The Effect of Newspaper Entry and Exit on Electoral Politics
Gentzkow, Matthew - 2009
participation, party vote shares, and electoral competitiveness. Our identification strategy exploits the precise timing of these … political participation, with one additional newspaper increasing both presidential and congressional turnout by approximately 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463105
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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 …, broadband fostered other forms of online and offline participation. Over time, the negative effect was reverted due to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459633
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Ownership versus Environment : Why are Public Sector Firms Inefficient?
Bartel, Ann P. - 1999
In this paper we disentangle the sources of public sector inefficiency using 1982-1995 panel data on manufacturing firms in Indonesia. We consider two leading hypotheses: (1) public sector enterprises are inefficient due to monitoring problems and (2) public sector enterprises are inefficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471757
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Efficient Local Government Service Provision : The Role of Privatization and Public Sector Unions
Jerch, Rhiannon - 2016
result in cost savings of $5.7 billion in 2011 and that the gain in economic efficiency from more closely aligning bus fares …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456586