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Intergenerational Correlations of Extreme Right-Wing Party Preferences and Attitudes Toward Immigration
Avdeenko, Alexandra - 2015
This study analyzes the importance of parental socialization on the development of children's far right-wing preferences and attitudes towards immigration. Using longitudinal data from Germany, our intergenerational estimates suggest that the strongest and most important predictor for young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014044
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When do countries implement structural reforms?
Silva, António Dias da; Givone, Audrey; Sondermann, David - 2017
more likely during deep recessions and when unemployment rates are high. Moreover, the further distant from best practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011662947
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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742833
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Short and long-term effects of unemployment on fertility
Currie, Janet M.; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015
Scholars have been examining the relationship between fertility and unemployment for more than a century. Most studies … find that fertility falls with unemployment in the short run, but it is not known whether these negative effects persist … period 1975 to 2010, we analyze both the short and long-run effects of unemployment on fertility. We follow fixed cohorts of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317653
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Structural or cyclic? : labor markets in recessions : how should policy respond to higher unemployment?
Lazear, Edward P. - 2014
Persistent unemployment after recessions and the policies required to bring it down are the subject of an ongoing … unemployment, requiring the implementation of structural policy reforms. The alternative view is that the slow recovery of the … economy is due to cyclic reasons coming from lack of demand which prevents unemployment from falling quickly. Knowing whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011413609
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Macroeconomic effects of UI extensions at short and long durations
Acosta, Miguel; Müller, Andreas; Nakamura, Emi; Jón … - 2023
We study the macroeconomic effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit extensions in the United States at short and … when initial durations are shorter have substantial effects on the unemployment rate and the number of people receiving UI …
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Extreme Bounds of Democracy
Gassebner, Martin; Lamla, Michael J.; Vreeland, James … - 2009
There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and survival. We apply extreme bounds analysis to test the robustness of 59 factors proposed in the literature, evaluating over 3 million regressions. The most robust determinants of...
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Electoral control when policies are for sale
Farvaque, Étienne; Lagadec, Gael - 2009
This article analyses the dynamics of electoral promises, building on an electoral competition model with endogenous policies. It extends the Grossman-Helpman (1994) model [Grossman G., Helpman E. [1994], "Protection for sale", American Economic Review, 84, 4, 833-850] to include sanctions from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806719
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Good policy choices even when voters entertain biased beliefs : a model with endogenous valence
Bischoff, Ivo; Siemers, Lars - 2008
In "The Myth of the Rational Voter" Brian Caplan shows that voters entertain systematically biased beliefs on a number of essential issues of economic policy and concludes that this leads democracies to choose bad policies. We introduce the psychological concept of mental models to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003865948
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Thelarger the better? : the role of interest-group size in legislative lobbying
Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
We develop a model of legislative lobbying where policy proposals are endogenous. We show that a policy proposer with preferences tilted towards one lobby may be induced by an increase in that interest group's size to propose policies geared towards the opposing lobby. Hence, a larger lobby size...
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