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Exporting Ideology : The Right and Left of Foreign Influence

Antràs, Pol; Padró i Miquel, Gerard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We present an economic rationale for countries resorting to foreign influence to export their ideology to other nations. Our model incorporates two fundamental elements: redistribution of the tax burden between capital owners and workers, and international capital mobility. The model highlights...

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Can Social Media Rhetoric Incite Hate Incidents?$bEvidence from Trump's "Chinese Virus" Tweets

Cao, Andy; Lindo, Jason M.; Zhong, Jiee - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We investigate whether Donald Trump's "Chinese Virus" tweets contributed to the rise of anti-Asian incidents. We find that the number of incidents spiked following Trump's initial "Chinese Virus" tweets and the subsequent dramatic rise in internet search activity for the phrase....

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Producing Health : Measuring Value Added of Nursing Homes

Einav, Liran; Finkelstein, Amy; Mahoney, Neale - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a stylized model that allows us to estimate a value-added measure for nursing homes ("SNFs") which accounts for patient selection both into and out of a SNF. We use the model, together with detailed data on the physical and mental health of about 6 million Medicare SNF patients...

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Justifying Dissent

Bursztyn, Leonardo; Egorov, Georgij V.; Haaland, Ingar; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a "social cover" for voicing...

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Self-Interest in Public Service : Evidence from School Board Elections

Billings, Stephen B.; Macartney, Hugh; Park, Geunyong; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In this paper, we show that the election of a new school board member causes home values in their neighborhood to rise. This increase is identified using narrowly-decided contests and is driven by non-Democratic members, whose neighborhoods appreciate about 4% on average relative to those of...

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Terrorism and Political Attitudes : Evidence from European Social Surveys

Peri, Giovanni; Rees, Daniel I.; Smith, Brock - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Since the turn of the last century, nationalistic political parties have been gaining support in Europe. Over the same period, terror attacks have increased. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we examine the effects of terror attacks involving at least one fatality on attitudes...

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Ideology and Performance in Public Organizations

Spenkuch, Jörg L.; Teso, Edoardo; Xu, Guo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We combine personnel records of the United States federal bureaucracy from 1997-2019 with administrative voter registration data to study how ideological alignment between politicians and bureaucrats affects the personnel policies and performance of public organizations. We present four results....

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Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Partisanship on Asset Prices

Bianchi, Francesco; Kung, Howard; Cram, Roberto Gómez - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

. Members of congress coordinate within parties to push legislation through their social media accounts. As an illustrative and …

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Politics and Gender in the Executive Suite

Cohen, Alma; Hazan, Moshe; Weiss, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Are the political preferences of CEOs associated with the representation and compensation of women in the executive suite? We find that Democratic CEOs (those who contribute more to Democratic candidates) are associated with higher representation of women in the executive suite. To explore...

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Racial Diversity and Racial Policy Preferences : The Great Migration and Civil Rights

Calderon, Alvaro; Fouka, Vasiliki; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement … in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights … are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration increased …

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