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This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...
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We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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Response rates to important surveys used in social science research have been falling precipitously over the last few … experiment in Tea Party support using rain on the day of the first Tea Party rally indicates the anti-Census and anti …-survey rhetoric of the Tea Party did not increase refusals …
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. We estimate that a switch from Democratic to Republican party, for an aid-receiving country with above-median reliance on …
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mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political … elections where a party either barely wins or loses an additional seat.We estimate that a one seat increase for the far …-right, anti-immigration party decreases negative attitudes towards immigration by 4.1 percentage points, in opposition to the …
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We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for …-socialist countries in 2015/16. To deal with endogeneity, we instrument party membership with information on whether family members were … affected by the Second World War. Instrumental variable results suggest that links to the former Communist party increase the …
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individuals' party identification. Consistent with the deprivation theory, we find strong and robust evidence that subjective job …
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between the demand for redistribution and individuals' party identification …
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individuals' support for government intervention and their party identification. This result provides indirect evidence on the …
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