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attitudes towards foreigners, political interest of foreigners,intergenerational conflict between natives and foreigners and …
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This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...
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political statements or information that are dissonant with one's political ideology. Finally, while not as robust across tasks …
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We investigate the relationship between political attitudes and prosociality in a survey of a representative sample of … correlates positively with adherence to protective behaviors. Liberal political ideology predicts higher levels of protective … behavior than conservative ideology, independently of the differences in prosociality across the two groups. Differences …
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The existing literature on the determinants of terrorism treats terror as a uniform phenomenon and does not distinguish between different types of terror. This paper explicitly addresses the heterogeneity of terror by classifying groups according to their ideologies. We show that the pattern of...
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A substantial body of research suggests that economists are less generous than other professionals and that economics students are less generous than other students. We address this question using administrative data on donations to social programs by students at the University of Washington....
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expose different areas of the polity to controlled informational treatments about the valence and ideology of the incumbent … elicited beliefs, we are able to structurally assess the relative weights voters place upon a candidate's valence and ideology … only campaigning on valence brings more votes to the incumbent. With respect to ideology, cross-learning occurs, as voters …
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capitalist and a communist sector. We deliberately chose attitudes toward doping to test the impact of ideology on values since … (i) post‐1989 disappointed economic hopes did not confound doping attitudes, and because of (ii) the systematic GDR state … extramural sports experience and age are equally strong predictors of individual attitudes and beliefs, especially in interaction …
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When policymakers and private agents use models, the economists who design the model have an incentive to alter it in order to influence outcomes in a fashion consistent with their own preferences. I discuss some consequences of the existence of such ideological bias. In particular, I analyze...
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-progressive political regimes and ideology can weaken this chain of effects, by eroding either the way religion shapes gender roles or the …
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