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Happiness and the human development index: Australia is not a paradox

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

In Happiness and the Human Development Index: The Paradox of Australia, Blanchflower and Oswald (2005) observe an … apparent puzzle: they claim that Australia ranks highly in the Human Development Index (HDI), but relatively poorly in … happiness. However, when we compare their happiness data with the HDI, Australia appears happier, not sadder, than its HDI score …

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

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Competing approaches to forecasting elections: economic models, opinion polling and prediction markets

Leigh, Andrew; Wolfers, Justin - 2006

. While the evidence for economic voting has historically been weak for Australia, the 2004 election suggests an increasingly …

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Who benefits from the earned income tax credit? Incidence among recipients, coworkers and firms

Leigh, Andrew - 2010

How are hourly wages affected by the Earned Income Tax Credit? Using variation in state EITC supplements, I find that a 10 percent increase in the generosity of the EITC is associated with a 5 percent fall in the wages of high school dropouts and a 2 percent fall in the wages of those with only...

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Do gun buybacks save lives? Evidence from panel data

Leigh, Andrew; Neill, Christine - 2010

In 1997, Australia implemented a gun buyback program that reduced the stock of firearms by around one-fifth. Using …

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Does racial and ethnic discrimination vary across minority groups? Evidence from a field experiment

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew; Varganova, Elena - 2010

groups in Australia - a country where one quarter of the population was born overseas. To denote ethnicity, we use …-level jobs and submitted a CV showing that the candidate had attended high school in Australia. We find economically and …

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Bargaining over labor: Do patients have any power?

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - 2011

We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...

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How partisan is the press? Multiple measures of media slant

Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - 2011

We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...

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