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Youth Enfranchisement, Political Responsiveness and Education Expenditure : Evidence from the U.S
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945231
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Youth enfranchisement, political responsiveness and education expenditure : evidence from the U.S.
Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Lancia, Francesco - 2017
This paper studies the effect of preregistration laws on government spending in the U.S. Preregistration allows young citizens to register before being eligible to vote and has been introduced in different states in different years. Employing a difference-in-differences regression design, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738837
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The impact of election information shocks on populist party preferences : evidence from Germany
Gerling, Lena; Kellermann, Kim Leonie - 2019
recently entered all state parliaments as well as the federal parliament in Germany. Although professed AfD voters faced a … analyze the impact of information shocks with respect to aggregate-level AfD support on individual party choices. Unexpectedly … German state elections. We define election information shocks as deviations of actual AfD vote shares from pre-election polls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063656
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Why do citizens prefer highly skilled immigrants to low-skilled immigrants? : identifying causal mechanisms of immigration preferences with a survey experiment
Igarashi, Akira; Miwa, Hirofumi; Ono, Yoshikuni - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382647
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Building Future Generations : The Macroeconomic Consequences of Family Policies
Zhou, Anson - 2022
Most developed countries have family policies, but little is known about their macroeconomic consequences. This paper develops a heterogeneous agent overlapping generations framework that integrates trade-offs between the number of children (quantity) and investment per child (quality), a rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314205
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009665560
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Job loss fears and (extremist) party identification : first evidence from panel data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009681424
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097869
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Job Loss Fears and (Extremist) Party Identification : First Evidence from Panel Data
Geishecker, Ingo; Siedler, Thomas - 2012
There is a large body of literature analyzing the relationship between objective economic conditions and voting behavior, but there is very little evidence of how perceived economic insecurity impacts on political preferences. Using seventeen years of household panel data from the German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014162960
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Rainy day politics : an instrumental variables approach to the effect of parties on political outcomes
Lind, Jo Thori - 2014
Rain affects electoral turnout both through a direct effect on the cost of voting and by changing the opportunity cost. In a panel of Norwegian municipalities I find that rain on Election Day increases turnout. As turnout affects electoral outcomes, rain provides an exogeneous source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383810