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Pilny, Adam; Rösel, Felix - 2020

Appointing or electing professionals to be public officials is a double-edged sword. Experts can use their rich knowledge to implement reforms, but they can also favor their own profession. In this study, we compare physician-trained state health ministers to ministers of other professions in...

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Favoritism by the governing elite

Asatryan, Zareh; Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Birkholz, Carlo; … - 2023

In this paper, we study the extent to which ministers engage in regional favoritism. We are the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of a larger set of the governing elite, not just focusing on the primary leader. We manually collect birthplaces of this governing elite globally. Combining...

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"The mother of all political problems"? : on asylum seekers and elections

Tomberg, Lukas; Smith Stegen, Karen; Vance, Colin - 2020

As immigration to Europe has increased, so has support for extremist parties. While many studies have examined the effect of immigration on election outcomes, few have probed the effect of asylum seekers – those fleeing strife and persecution – on voting, nor has there been much research on...

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Are profitable hospitals more digitally mature? : an explorative study using data from the German DigitalRadar Project

Vogel, Justus; Hollenbach, Johannes; Haering, Alexander; … - 2023

Public investment in hospitals in Germany has been insufficient for decades, making it difficultto finance digitization …. Due to dual financing, hospitals could alternatively use their own profitsto pay for digitization efforts. This raises the … question of whether there is a relationship betweenprofitability and digitization, i.e., whether profitable hospitals are more …

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Is there a relationship between hospital process digitalization and quality of care? : observational study using data from hospital quality report cards and the DigitalRadar Project

Vogel, Justus; Haering, Alexander; Kuklinski, David; … - 2024

Die Digitalisierung von Krankenhäusern hat das Potenzial, Kosten zu senken, die Effizienz zu steigern und die Qualität …-Projekt von 2021 verwendet, die unter anderem die Digitalisierung von Prozessen beschreiben. Diese Daten wurden mit verschiedenen … multivariate lineare Regressionen durchgeführt, um den Zusammenhang zwischen Digitalisierung und Qualität zu untersuchen. Insgesamt …

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Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown : triangulation of three data sources in Germany

Ebert, Cara; Steinert, Janina - 2024

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) longitudinal administrative data on the volume of help requests to helplines, shelters and counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data...

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The role of schools in transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus : quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Bismarck-Osten, Clara von; Borusyak, Kirill; Schönberg, Uta - 2020

This paper considers the role of school closures in the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. To isolate the impact of the closures from other containment measures and identify a causal effect, we exploit variation in the start and end dates of the summer school and fall holiday across the 16 federal...

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The impact of shock-responsive social cash transfers : evidence from an aggregate shock in Kenya

Strupat, Christoph; Rukundo, Emmanuel Nshakira; … - 2024

This study examines the effects of a nationwide shock-responsive social cash transfer scheme during an aggregate shock, with a focus on highly risk susceptible informal sector households in Kenya. Leveraging primary in-person survey data in a doubly robust difference-in-differences framework, we...

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Who gets vaccinated? : cognitive and non-cognitive predictors of individual behavior in pandemics

Andor, Mark Andreas; Bauer, Thomas K.; Eßer, Jana; … - 2023

This study investigates the different cognitive and non-cognitive characteristics associated with individuals’ willingness to get vaccinated against Covid-19 and their actual vaccination status. Our empirical analysis is based on data obtained from three survey waves of about 2,000 individuals...

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Palm oil and the politics of deforestation in Indonesia

Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2020

This paper studies the interactions between political and economic incentives to foster forest conversion in Indonesian districts. Using a district-level panel data set from 2001 to 2016, we analyze variation in remotely sensed forest loss and forest fires as well as measures of land use...

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