This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a statistically significant relationship between gendered language and the incidence of intimate partner violence in a cross-section of countries. Motivated by this evidence, we conduct an...

This paper investigates the political economy of taxation and growth in a model in which individuals have preference for high levels of relative consumption. A pivotal voter determines the equilibrium tax on capital, the revenues from which fund the provision of productive public goods. The...

This paper considers the merits of two classes of profit maximization problems, those involving perfectly competitive firms with quadratic and cubic cost functions. While relatively easy to develop and solve, problems in which the firm has a quadratic cost functions are structurally too simple...

With the rise of the far-right parties in the European parliamentary elections, concerns over immigration and national identity have again come into the limelight. In this paper, we document the empirical relationships between immigration, native concerns over the economic and cultural impact of...

Hirschman and Rothschild's (1973) tunnel effect refers to the propensity for individuals to be pleased by the success of others if they believe this signals an improvement in their own prospects. Tunnel effects are subject to two claims in the current literature on happiness: that they partly or...