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accumulation to regional growth. We model explicitly the political-economy process driving infrastructure investments; in doing so …
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This study analyses the lack of robust conclusions about the association between inequality and economic growth. On the … inequality and unequal opportunity. The relative index of inequality of opportunity is used as explanatory variable in the growth … regression equation. To find out the direction of causality, we also estimate inequality equation by taking growth as an …
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The German Constitutional Court is radically different from the (mostly US) courts in which panel effects have been studied so widely. On the one hand, to a large extent, ideological and gender bias are neutralized by design. On the other hand, panels are not randomly composed. This makes it...
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We evaluate the impact of the Gambian hardship allowance, which provides a salary premium of 30-40% to primary school teachers in remote locations, on student performance. A geographic discontinuity in the policy's implementation provides identifying variation. We find no effects of the hardship...
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corruption lowers growth. An implication is that economists should be more restrained in their praise of high public sector …
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Purpose The theoretical debate of corruption's impact on economic growth remains unsettled, making it an empirical … question. This study aims to investigate corruption's effect on BRICS countries' economic growth. Design/methodology/approach A … employed to estimate a growth model as a linear-quadratic function of corruption that accounts for cross-sectional dependence …
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We exploit a discontinuity in Brazilian municipal election rules to investigate whether political competition has a causal impact on policy choices. In municipalities with less than 200,000 voters mayors are elected with a plurality of the vote. In municipalities with more than 200,000 voters a...
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We study the returns to political office using data from Finnish parliamentary elections in 1970-2007 and municipal elections in 1996-2008. The discontinuity of electoral outcomes in individual candidate votes allows us to estimate the causal effect of being elected on subsequent income. Getting...
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We estimate the effect of getting elected on future income development of political candidates. We present a bootstrap approach for measuring electoral closeness, which can be used to implement a regression discontinuity design in any electoral system. We apply the method to the Finnish...
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement …
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