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Political Bias in Court? Lay Judges and Asylum Appeals
Martén, Linna - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2015
Several countries practice a system where laymen, who lack legal education, participate in the judicial decision making. Yet, little is known about their potential influence on the court rulings. In Sweden lay judges (namndeman) are affiliated with the political parties and appointed in...
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Correcting Mistakes: Cognitive Dissonance and Political Attitudes in Sweden and the United States.
Elinder, Mikael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
Cognitive dissonance theory predicts that the act of voting makes people more positive toward the party or candidate they have voted for. Following Mullainathan and Washington (2009), I test this prediction by using exogenous variation in turnout provided by the voting age restriction. I improve...
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The Internet, News Consumption, and Political Attitudes
Liang, Che-Yuan; Nordin, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which online news media emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818817
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The Internet, News Consumption, and Political Attitudes
Liang, Che-Yuan; Nordin, Mattias - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
We investigate the effects of the rise of the Internet as an additional mass medium on news consumption patterns and political attitudes. We use Swedish survey data from 2002 to 2007, the period during which online news media emerged. We find that broadband access is associated with online media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762004
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Liliput oder Leviathan? Der Staat in der Globalisierten Wirtschaft
Frey, Bruno S. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, …
Globalization is often seen to result in a smaller (Liliput) or larger (Leviathan) state. But future public activity will be more flexible. Persons have multiple identities. They can be citizens of sub- and supra-national jurisdictions, semi- and non-governmental organizations and private units,...
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On the Vote Purchasing Behavior of Incumbent Governments.
Dahlberg, M.; Johansson, E. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
A couple of months before the Swedish election in 1998, the incumbent government distributed 2.3 billion SEK to 42 out … government. In this paper we investigate whether there were any tactical motives behind the distribution of these grants. We find … support for the hypothesis that the incumbent government used the grant program under study in order to win votes. In …
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Physician dispensing and the choice between generic and brand-name drugs – Do margins affect choice?
Rischatsch, Maurus; Trottmann, Maria - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
Many politicians blame physician dispensing (PD) to increase health care expenditure and to undermine independence of …
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The public health costs of job loss
Kuhn, Andreas; Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2009
We study the short-run effect of involuntary job loss on comprehensive measures of public health costs. We focus on job loss induced by plant closure, thereby addressing the reverse causality problem of deteriorating health leading to job loss as job displacements due to plant closure are...
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Living to Save Taxes
Eliason, Marcus; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
Does taxation affect the timing of death? This is important as an example of how behavior might be affected by economic incentives. We study how three changes in Swedish inheritance taxation 2004-2005 have affected daily all-cause mortality. Our first main result is that mortality decreased by...
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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
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