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A Graphical Lasso Approach to Estimating Network Connections : The Case of U.S. Lawmakers

Battaglini, Marco - 2020

In this paper, we propose a new approach to the estimation of social networks and we apply it to the estimation of productivity spillovers in the U.S. Congress. Social networks such as the social connections among lawmakers are not generally directly observed, they can be recovered only using...

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Logrolling in Congress

Battaglini, Marco; Sciabolazza, Valerio Leone; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study vote trading among U.S. Congress members. By tracking roll-call votes within bills across five legislatures and politicians' personal connections made during the school years, we document a propensity of connected legislators to vote together that depends on how salient the bill is to...

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Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities

Campbell, John Y.; Stein, Jeremy C.; Wu, Alex A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

To understand their financial position, universities need to understand the long-term implications of their operating revenues and costs in relation to the financial assets they have available. Standard budgeting procedures that focus on one or two years at a time and use generally accepted...

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Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Collins, William J. - 2003

African-Americans entered the post-Civil War era with extremely low levels of exposure to schooling. Relying primarily on micro-level census data, we describe racial differences in literacy rates, school attendance, years of educational attainment, age-in-grade distributions, spending per pupil,...

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The Long-Run Spillover Effects of Pollution : How Exposure to Lead Affects Everyone in the Classroom

Gazze, Ludovica; Persico, Claudia; Spirovska, Sandra - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

on preschool blood lead levels (BLLs) matched to education data for all students in North Carolina public schools. We …

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Investment in U.S. Education and Training

Mincer, Jacob - 1994

The current high rates of return to human capital stimulate a supply response via increased investments in education … differential in wages. This paper reports estimates of: the responses of investments in post-secondary education, measured by …

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Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States

Card, David - 1990

, and the relative pay of teachers -- on the rate of return to education for men born between 1920 and 1949. Using earnings … education in the region where they currently reside, and other factors. A decrease in the pupil-teacher ratio from 30 to 25, for … example, is associated with a 0.4 percentage point increase in the rate of return to education. The estimated relationship …

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Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South

Naidu, Suresh - 2012

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition, public goods, and factor markets....

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Abstentions and Social Networks in Congress

Battaglini, Marco - 2020

We study the extent to which personal connections among legislators influence abstentions in the U.S. Congress. Our analysis is conducted by observing representatives' abstention for the universe of roll call votes held on bills in the 109th-113th Congresses. Our results show that a legislator's...

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Economic Crisis, General Laws, and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Transformation of American Political Economy

Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2020

constitutions to ban the most common types of special legislation and, at the same time, mandate that all laws be general in their …

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