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Government Distortion in Independently Owned Media : Evidence from U.S. Cold War News Coverage of Human Rights
Qian, Nancy - 2010
This paper investigates the extent to which strategic objectives of the U.S. government influenced news coverage during the Cold War. We establish two relationships: 1) strategic objectives of the U.S. government cause the State Department to under-report human rights violations of strategic...
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The Political Economy of Anti-Bribery Enforcement
Cohen, Lauren; Li, Bo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper documents novel evidence on the influence of political incentives in the regulatory enforcement of foreign bribery. Using exogenous variation in the timing and geographic location of U.S. Congressional elections, we find that the probability of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)...
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The Rise of the Fourth Estate : How Newspapers Became Informative and Why It Mattered
Gentzkow, Matthew Aaron; Goldin, Claudia; Glaeser, Edward L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004
From 1870 to 1920, when corruption appears to have declined significantly within the United States, the press became … of the informative press was one of the reasons why the corruption of the Gilded Age was sharply reduced during the …
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Corruption and Reform : An Introduction
Glaeser, Edward L.; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004
was checkered with political scandal and widespread corruption that would not seem unusual compared with the most corrupt … developing nation today. We construct a "corruption and fraud index" using word counts from a large number of newspapers for 1815 … corruption from 1870 to 1920, particularly from the late-1870s to the mid-1880s and again in the 1910s. At its peak in the 1870s …
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Isolated Capital Cities, Accountability and Corruption : Evidence from US States
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459635
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Importing Corruption Culture from Overseas : Evidence from Corporate Tax Evasion in the United States
DeBacker, Jason M. - 2012
confidential IRS audit data, we show that corporations with owners from countries with higher corruption norms engage in higher … owners are from countries with higher corruption norms. This suggests that cultural norms can be a challenge to legal …
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The Control of Politicians in Normal Times and Times of Crisis : Wealth Accumulation by U.S. Congressmen, 1850-1880
Querubin, Pablo - 2011
We employ a regression discontinuity design based on close elections to estimate the rents from a seat in the U.S. congress between 1850-1880. Using census data, we compare wealth accumulation among those who won or lost their first race by a small margin. We find evidence of significant returns...
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Does Occupational Licensing Reduce Job Loss During Recessions?
Blair, Peter Q.; Chung, Bobby W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Licensed workers could be shielded from unemployment during recession since occupational licensing laws are asymmetric--making unlicensed workers an illegal substitute for licensed workers but not the reverse. We test our hypothesis using a difference-in-differences event study research design...
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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...
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Why Women Won
Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
How, when, and why did women in the US obtain legal rights equal to men's regarding the workplace, marriage, family, Social Security, criminal justice, credit markets, and other parts of the economy and society, decades after they gained the right to vote? The story begins with the civil rights...
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