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Politicians' In-Utero Health Shocks, Human Capital, Preferences, and Career and Governance Outcomes : The Case of City Party Secretaries in China

Shi, Xiangyu - 2022

affect politicians' human capital and career and governance outcomes, using Chinese Great Famine (1959-1961) and Chinese city … build an endogenous growth model with self-interested politicians to rationalize the facts, and estimate the model to … quantify the effects of famine exposure on politicians' human capital and preference …

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Are elections in autocracies a curse for incumbents? Evidence from Chinese villages

Han, Li - In: Public choice 158 (2013) 1/2, pp. 221-242

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Do elected leaders in a limited democracy have real power? : Evidence from rural China

Mu, Ren - In: Journal of development economics 107 (2014), pp. 17-27

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Environmentally-Inclined Politicians and Local Environmental Performance : Evidence from Publicly Listed Firms in China

Fang, Hanming; Ren, Honglin; Song, Danwen; Xu, Nianhang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study how environmentally-inclined politicians (EIPs), i.e., politicians with prior environment-related working …

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Does trade liberalization with China influence U.S. elections?

Che, Yi; Lu, Yi; Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K.; … - 2016 - This draft: April 2016

This paper examines the impact of trade liberalization on U.S. Congressional elections. We find that U.S. counties subject to greater competition from China via a change in U.S. trade policy exhibit relative increases in turnout, the share of votes cast for Democrats and the probability that the...

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Learn to Abstain : How Education Can Lower Voter Turnout in China's Grassroots Elections

Lai, Weizheng - 2022

Conventional wisdom and evidence from democracies suggests that education increases voter turnout. This paper revisits this question through by analyzing voter turnout in local elections in China. Using an instrument variable strategy, I find that schooling surprisingly reduces turnout. Results...

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Does Trade Liberalization with China Influence U.S. Elections?

Che, Yi - 2016

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Importing political polarization? : the electoral consequences of rising trade exposure

Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2020

to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …

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Does Women's Knowledge of Voting Rights Affect Their Voting Behavior in Village Elections? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial in China

Pang, Xiaopeng; Zeng, Junxia; Rozelle, Scott - 2013

Officials in China claim that voting rates in rural village elections are high. Unfortunately, these rates are assumptions, not facts. The true voting rate is lower, and much lower for women. We postulate that this could be due to insufficient knowledge about their rights. The objective of this...

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Culture, Institutions and Social Equilibria : A Framework

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James - 2021

This paper proposes a new framework for studying the interplay between culture and institutions. We follow the recent sociology literature and interpret culture as a \repertoire", which allows rich cultural responses to changes in the environment and shifts in political power. Specifically, we...

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