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Adversarial Economic Preferences Predict Right-Wing Voting

Buser, Thomas - 2024

I analyze Dutch panel data that contains rich information on voting, political opinions, and personality traits. I show … adversarial preferences predict voting independently from these traits - and often with larger effect sizes. The complex Dutch …-right axis, a social progressive-conservative axis, and a populism axis. Competitiveness predicts voting for economically right …

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Papa Does Preach: Daughters and Polarisation of Attitudes toward Abortion

Van Effenterre, Clémentine - 2017

. Using French and U.S voting records, I estimate that having daughters decreases support for abortion law by 25% for right …

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You’re the One That I Want! Public Employment and Women’s Labor Market Outcomes

Gomes, Pedro Maia; Kuehn, Zoë - 2019

In most countries, the public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. We document gender differences in …, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. We then build a search and matching model where men and women decide if to …. Running counterfactual experiments, we quantify whether the selection of women into the public sector is driven by: (i) lower …

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Appointed or Elected? How Mayoral Accountability Impacts the Provision of Policing

Colombo, Andrea; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020

This paper studies how the system by which mayors are elected impacts mayoral accountability and their provision of public goods. To do so, we analyze policing and crime incidence under mayors directly elected by voters and under mayors appointed by an elected body. Our identification strategy...

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Tacit lobbying agreements: An experimental study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - 2010

We experimentally study the common wisdom that money buys political influence. In the game, one lobbyist has the opportunity to influence redistributive tax policies in her favor by transferring money to two competing candidates. The success of the lobbying investment depends on whether or not...

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Tacit Lobbying Agreements: An Experimental Study

Großer, Jens; Reuben, Ernesto; Tymula, Agnieszka - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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Shaken Politics: The Electoral Outcomes of Disasters and Social Capital

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2025

We study the electoral repercussions of the L'Aquila earthquake in 2009, one of Italy's most catastrophic post-WWII seismic events. We construct a unique municipality-level dataset, combining high-resolution data on the ground acceleration recorded during the earthquake with European election...

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Wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und Demokratie: ist Demokratie ein Wohlstandsmotor oder ein Wohlstandsprodukt?

Sunde, Uwe - 2006

relationship according to which democracy is a determinant of economic development? Or is it, conversely, economic development that …

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Rain, Emotions and Voting for the Status Quo

Meier, Armando N.; Schmid, Lukas D.; Stutzer, Alois - 2016

rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this …

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Was Brexit Caused by the Unhappy and the Old?

Liberini, Federica; Oswald, Andrew J.; Proto, Eugenio; … - 2017

On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (so-called 'Brexit'). This paper uses newly released information, from the Understanding Society data set, to examine the characteristics of individuals who were for and against Brexit. Two key findings emerge. First, unhappy...

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