In a recent paper, García-Mainar and Montuenga-Gómez [García-Mainar, I. \& Montuenga-Gómez, V. M. (2005). Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain. Economics of Education Review, 24(2), 161-170] apply the generalized IV model of Hausman and Taylor to...

A growing theoretical literature on the effect of politicians' salaries on the average level of skills of political candidates yields ambiguous predictions. In this paper, we estimate the effect of pay for politicians on the level of education of parliamentary candidates. We take advantage of an...

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...

Joop Adema, Yvonne Giesing und Panu Poutvaara, ifo Institut, stellen die Ergebnisse einer europaweiten Längsschnittstudie über ukrainischen Geflüchtete vor. Seit Juni 2022 werden die Umfrageteilnehmenden wiederholt zu ihrem aktuellen Aufenthaltsort, ihren Rückkehrplänen und ihren...