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Why Do Scandinavian Governments Employ So Many and the United States Government So Few?

Lundholm, Michael; Wijkander, Hans - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 64 (2008) 3, pp. 364-379

Is it a sheer coincidence that the egalitarian Scandinavian countries have significantly larger government employment … shares than the much less egalitarian United States? A positive correlation between equality and government employment share … in the OECD indicates that it is not a coincidence. We suggest a nonlinear relation between equality and government …

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Sunshine as disinfectant: The effect of state Freedom of Information Act laws on public corruption

Cordis, Adriana S.; Warren, Patrick L. - In: Journal of Public Economics 115 (2014) C, pp. 18-36

and local government officials. The evidence suggests that strengthening FOIA laws has two offsetting effects: reducing …

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Advancing the Empirical Research on Lobbying

Figueiredo, John M. de; Richter, Brian Kelleher - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This essay identifies the empirical facts about lobbying which are generally agreed upon in the literature. It then discusses challenges to empirical research in lobbying and provides examples of empirical methods that can be employed to overcome these challenges--with an emphasis on statistical...

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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina

Alston, Lee J.; Gallo, Andres - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never …

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Why State Constitutions Differ in their Treatment of Same-Sex Marriage

Lupia, Arthur; Krupnikov, Yanna; Levine, Adam Seth; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Some states treat a same-sex marriage as legally equal to a marriage between a man and a woman. Other states prohibit legal recognition of same-sex marriages in their constitutions. In every state that has a constitutional restriction against same-sex marriage, the amendment was passed by a...

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Review of Huerta de Soto´s `Money, Bank Credit, and Economic Cycles´

van den Hauwe, Ludwig - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This article reviews the first English edition of Prof. Jesús Huerta de Soto´s book `Dinero, Crédito Bancario y Ciclos Económicos´ which first appeared in Spain in 1998.

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Bribery or Just Desserts? Evidence on the Influence of Congressional Voting Patterns on PAC Contributions from Exogenous Variation in the Sex Mix of Legislator Offspring

Conley, Dalton; McCabe, Brian J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Evidence on the relationship between political contributions and legislators' voting behavior is marred by concerns about endogeneity in the estimation process. Using a legislator's offspring sex mix as an exogenous variable, we employ a two-stage least squares estimation procedure to predict...

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Capitalizing China

Morck, Randall; Fan, Joseph; Yeung, Bernard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

Despite a vast accumulation of private capital, China is not embracing capitalism. Deceptively familiar capitalist features disguise the profoundly unfamiliar foundations of "market socialism with Chinese characteristics." The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by controlling the career advancement...

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Towards a Better Understanding of the Informal Economy

Andrews, Dan; Sánchez, Aida Caldera; Johansson, Åsa - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011

It is important to understand the nature and drivers of informality, as its social and economic consequences are wide-ranging. This paper critically reviews the current state of cross-country research on informality and discusses how existing data sources can be more effectively employed and...

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To Teach or not to Teach? Panel Data Evidence on the Quitting Decision

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2004

The question we address in this paper is which factors influence the quitting decision of public sector teachers in England and Wales, using a nationally representative panel data set over 1997-2003. We document the outcomes of former teachers, fit single and competing-risks duration models and...

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