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We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
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levels. The outline of the paper is as follows. First, we combine a set of noise and air pollutants measured at a number of …
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), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by … NextGen, which unintentionally increased noise in communities affected by the new flight patterns. Our finding informs policy …
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In this paper we test the celebrated `Strength of weak ties' theory of Granovetter (1973). We test two hypotheses on the network structure in a data set of collaborating economists. While we find support for the hypothesis of transitivity of strong ties, we reject the hypothesis that weak ties...
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This study examines the relationship between social capital that arises from individual relations and individual innovativeness. Social capital is considered a multidimensional construct and individual innovativeness is measured through six different indicators of scientific production....
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