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Peer effects on the United States Supreme Court

Holden, Richard; Keane, Michael P.; Lilley, Matthew - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 12 (2021) 3, pp. 981-1019

Using data on essentially every U.S. Supreme Court decision since 1946, we estimate a model of peer effects on the Court. We estimate the impact of justice ideology and justice votes on the votes of their peers. To identify the peer effects, we use two instruments that generate plausibly...

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Voting among siblings

Bloem, Michael D.; Holbein, John B.; Imlay, Samuel J.; … - 2025

-third of this is caused by the older sibling voting, as determined by age-of-voting-eligibility thresholds in a regression … discontinuity design. Third, the causal impact of a sibling voting runs in the other direction as well - younger siblings increase … the probability of their older siblings voting in their early 20's by 14 percent. These results demonstrate the influence …

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Migrants' missing votes

Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2020

therefore have a systematic influence on election results. Using administrative migration and voting data, we show that counties … find no effects on incumbent parties. In addition, our results show increased voting for parties with pro …-wing parties. The results have important policy implications for voting regulations. …

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Freedom of speech, deterrence, and compellence in the parliament

Altindag, Duha Tore; Mocan, Naci; Zhang, Jie - 2021

In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This paper presents the first empirical analysis in the literature of the impact of Parliamentary...

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International Investment Agreements and Foreign Direct Investment : A Survey

Egger, Peter; Pirotte, Alain; Titi, Catharine - 2023

This paper reviews the relationship between international investment agreements (IIAs) and foreign direct investment (FDI). It is organised in two parts. The first part explores the generic structure of IIAs and highlights the components that are particularly relevant to FDI. It then gives an...

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The beauty premium of politicians in office

Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; Wochner, Timo - 2023

The beauty premium in politics shows that attractive politicians are more likely to get elected to office than less attractive politicians, but little is known about whether beauty also shapes the behavior of members of parliament (MPs) once in office. We use newly collected data on the...

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Immigration and electoral outcomes : evidence from the 2015 refugee inflow to Germany

Bredtmann, Julia - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of local exposure to refugees on electoral outcomes in the 2016 state election in Germany. Based on quasi-random variation in the allocation of refugees across municipalities and unique data on refugee populations and their type of accommodation, I find that...

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Immigration and majority voting on income redistribution : is there a case for opposition from natives?

Mayr, Karin - 2003 - First version: June 2003, This version: July 2003

This paper examines the effect of immigration on the level of income redistribution via majority voting on the income … natives. It is found that at best, natives are indifferent towards immigrant voting, and the outcome of a corresponding …

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Mr. Rossi, Mr. Hu and politics : the role of immigration in shaping natives' political preferences

Barone, Guglielmo; D'Ignazio, Alessio; De Blasio, Guido; … - 2014

We analyze the impact of immigration on voting. Using Italian municipality data and IV estimation strategy, we find …

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Exposure to refugees and voting for the far-right : (unexpected) results from Austria

Steinmayr, Andreas - 2016

This paper studies a natural experiment to identify the causal effect of exposure to refugees in the neighborhood on the support for far-right, nationalist, anti-immigration parties. In the state elections in an Austrian state in September 2015 the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPOE)...

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