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Topic salience and political polarization: Evidence from the German "PISA shock"

Sancassani, Pietro - 2023

Does the salience of a topic affect polarization in related parliamentary debates? When discussing a salient topic … polarization of parliamentary debates. In a difference-in-differences framework, I find that the PISA shock caused an 8.8% of a … standard deviation increase in polarization of education debates compared to other topics. The effect is long-lasting and fades …

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When Facebook is the internet: The role of social media in ethnic conflict

Tähtinen, Tuuli - 2024

conflict in Myanmar. In this context most people use mobile phones, and particularly the Facebook app, to access the internet … audiences, I do not find that social media access is associated with increased probability or intensity of conflict. The only … Facebook availability being associated with slightly higher probability of conflict. …

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Does a Change of Government Influence Compliance with International Agreements? Empirical Evidence for the NATO Two Percent Target

Blum, Johannes; Potrafke, Niklas - 2019

We examine whether changes of government influence compliance with international agreements. We investigate compliance with the NATO two percent target to which all NATO countries committed themselves during the NATO summit in Wales in 2014. The dataset includes the military expenditure by NATO...

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Autocrats in the United Nations General Assembly: A test of the decoy voting hypothesis

Mosler, Martin - 2020

I empirically examine whether autocratic governments use decoy voting in the United Nations General Assembly to hide repressive behavior of their regimes. Previous research has identified the State of Israel as a unique decoy. My sample includes votes on all 4,878 contested resolutions involving...

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Centralized Monitoring, Resistance, and Reform Outcomes: Evidence from School Inspections in Prussia

Schueler, Ruth - 2016

During the Kulturkampf at the end of the nineteenth century, Prussian authorities introducedcentralized inspections to improve school outcomes in particular in Catholic regions. Tomeasure the effect of the reform, I combine unique data on school inspectors with Prussiancounty-level data. I apply...

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Educational inputs and economic development in end-of-nineteenth-century Prussia

Schueler, Ruth - 2016

Which role did educational investments play for economic development? Using data on schooling quantity and quality provided by the first and second Prussian census on primary schools and two measures capturing the high and the low end of the income distribution allows applying a value-added...

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Immigration and the Diffusion of Technology: The Huguenot Diaspora in Prussia

Hornung, Erik - 2011

This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivityfor the Huguenots migration to Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in aunique data base. In 1685, religious persecution...

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Evolution vs. creationism in the classroom: The lasting effects of science education

Arold, Benjamin W. - 2022

Anti-scientific attitudes can impose substantial costs on societies. Can schools be an important agent in mitigating the propagation of such attitudes? This paper investigates the effect of the content of science education on anti-scientific attitudes, knowledge, and choices. The analysis...

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Political shocks and inflation expectations: Evidence from the 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Dräger, Lena; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas - 2022

How do global political shocks influence individuals' expectations about economic outcomes? We run a unique survey on inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a natural experiment to identify the effect of a...

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Household behaviour in times of political change: Evidence from Egypt

Giesing, Yvonne; Music, Almedina - 2017

Using representative household survey data, we study the short-term microeconomic effects of the Egyptian revolution on household behaviour in terms of education, health expenditure and savings. We construct a new measure of political instability by analysing the number of fatalities during...

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