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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...
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Electoral College and Election Fraud
Egorov, Georgij V.; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
One frequently overlooked aspect of the U.S.-style electoral college system is that it discourages election fraud. In a … presidential election based on the popular vote, competing political parties are motivated to manipulate votes in areas where they … electoral college system provides more effective protection against election fraud compared to the popular vote system. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322861
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Classical Right, New Right, and Voting Behavior : Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment
Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Sanz, Carlos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
not run in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a relatively representative electoral constituency, in the general election of July 23 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576639
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Coordination and Incumbency Advantage in Multi-Party Systems - Evidence from French Elections
Dano, Kevin; Ferlenga, Francesco; Galasso, Vincenzo; Le … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
practice, incumbency advantage and coordination issues may lead to the (re)election of bad politicians. We ask whether these … elections, we find that winning an election increases candidates' chances to win the next election by 25.1 percentage points … conclude that party coordination and voters rallying candidates who won or gained visibility in an election both contribute to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013435103
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The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Wang, Tianyi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852, the paper studies the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. I use proximity to daily newspapers with telegraphic connections to Washington to generate plausibly exogenous variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322855
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Information Aggregation in Stratified Societies
Agranov, Marina; Eilat, Ran; Sonin, Konstantin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We analyze a model of political competition in which the elite forms endogenously to aggregate information and advise the uninformed median voter which candidate to choose. The median voter knows whether or not the endorsed candidate is biased toward the elites, but might still prefer the biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322896
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Civil Rights Protests and Election Outcomes : Exploring the Effects of the Poor People's Campaign
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; Karbownik, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
estimate the effects of these protests on congressional election outcomes. In the South, we find that PPC protests led to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447294
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for pro-climate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. In this paper, we estimate causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling...
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Is This Time Different? : The Safety Net Response to the Pandemic Recession
Hembre, Erik A.; Moffitt, Robert A.; Ziliak, James P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The federal government enacted massive spending in the Pandemic Recession. But was this spending scaled to the magnitude of the economic downturn? We examine the responsiveness of the safety net to the Pandemic Recession and compare it to that in the Great Recession. Using monthly state-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322904
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Panel Forecasts of Country-Level Covid-19 Infections
Liu, Laura - 2020
We use dynamic panel data models to generate density forecasts for daily Covid-19 infections for a panel of countries/regions. At the core of our model is a specification that assumes that the growth rate of active infections can be represented by autoregressive fluctuations around a downward...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481831