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Religion as an unemployment insurance and the basis of support for public safety nets : the case of Latin America and the Caribbean

Pecha, Camilo; Ruprah, Inder S. - 2015

This paper explores the role of religion in mitigating the degree to which unemployment reduces subjective well-being and it examines its support of social programs. The paper goes beyond existing literature in three ways: It extends existing literature to Latin America and Caribbean countries;...

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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement

Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020

Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous … referendums on lowering the voting age from 20 to 18. We focus on the role of institutional price variations by (i) the depth of … democracy and affects citizens' willingness to lower the voting age. Moreover, we find systematic price reactions of present …

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To swing or not to swing : an assessment of age and political cynicism of swing voting

Proulx, Damon; Savage, David; Stadelmann, David; … - 2021

first-hand microeconomic evidence on swing voting. We focus on the interactions between voters' age and political cynicism … Parliamentary Election Survey (DPES) 1989 to 2010. Our results indicate that swing voting is less likely to occur in older age … groups and more likely among individuals with higher levels of political cynicism. The age effects tend to be stronger among …

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A Time to Print, a Time to Reform

Boerner, Lars; Rubin, Jared; Severgnini, Battista - 2019

The public mechanical clock and the movable type printing press were two of the most important and complex general purpose technologies of the late medieval period. We document two of their most important, yet unforeseeable, consequences. First, an instrumental variables analysis indicates that...

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Trade and geography in the economic origins of Islam : theory and evidence

Michalopulos, Stelios; Naghavi, Alireza; Prarolo, Giovanni - 2010 - This draft: May, 2010

This research examines the economic origins of Islam and uncovers two empirical regularities. First, Muslim countries, virtual countries and ethnic groups, exhibit highly unequal regional agricultural endowments. Second, Muslim adherence is systematically larger along the pre-Islamic trade...

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Countering misinformation with targeted messages : experimental evidence using mobile phones

Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2021

Widespread misconceptions can be critical, especially in times of crisis. Through a field experiment, we study how to address such wrong or inaccurate beliefs using messages delivered to individual citizens using mobile phones. We focus on misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic in a...

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An institutional analysis of the enforcement problems in merger control

Budzinski, Oliver - 2010

The literature identifies a significant drop in merger control enforcement activity on both sides of the Atlantic during the last decade. Furthermore, this drop in enforcement activity is convincingly connected to enforcement problems on the sides of the competition agencies. This paper goes...

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The effect of spillovers and congestion on the segregative properties of endogenous jurisdiction structure formation

Oddou, Rémy - 2011

This paper analyzes the effect of spillovers and congestion of local public goods on the segregative properties of endogenous formation of jurisdiction. Households living in the same place form a jurisdiction and produce a local public good, that creates positive spillovers in other...

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On the legitimacy of coercion for the financing of public goods

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2009

The literature on public goods has shown that efficient outcomes are impossible if participation constraints have to be respected. This paper addresses the question whether they should be imposed. It asks under what conditions efficiency considerations justify that individuals are forced to pay...

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Sovereign wealth funds : form and function in the 21st century

Clark, Gordon L.; Monk, Ashby H. B. - 2010

As representatives of nation-states in global financial markets, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) share a common form and many functions. Arguably their form and functions owe as much to a shared (global) moment of institutional formation as they owe their form and functions to the hegemony of...

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