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The Compatriot Win Effect and Behavioural Biases in Lottery Markets
Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper presents evidence to support the compatriot win effect as a behavioural bias in lottery demand. We exploit the quasi‐random assignment of the jackpot prize across provinces in the Christmas draw of the Spanish National Lottery to examine whether lottery sales increase in jackpot‐winning provinces in subsequent draws.
David Boto‐García +2 more
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Population and Development Review, EarlyView.Abstract It is well established that women's labor force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing, however, little is known about women's labor market transitions, especially in developing countries. This article uses the Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 5000 women for more than 20 years ...
Lisa Cameron +2 more
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Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract The return to “old glories” is one of the main promises of radical‐right parties, picking up on widespread longings for the collective past. Many people argue that radical‐right support is motivated by Relative Deprivation, that is, the perception of being worse off than others.
Carla Grosche, Tobias Rothmund
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Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Generating public support for long‐term public investment may require understanding what citizens perceive as the “long term” in politics and how these perceptions shape their preferences. Across two studies, we find that UK citizens generally understand “long term” as 5–10 years.
Matthew Barnfield +2 more
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Remittance Income and Crime in Mexico
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between remittance inflows and criminal activity in Mexico, a country with persistently high crime rates and among the world's top remittance recipients. Using a 41‐quarter panel dataset of municipalities covering 2013–2023, the analysis estimates elasticity parameters linking remittance income to different
Diego De la Fuente Stevens
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Women's Empowerment and Intra‐Household Bargaining Power
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We assess the effectiveness of the Abbreviated Women's Empowerment in Agriculture Index (A‐WEAI) in predicting intra‐household bargaining power. We conducted a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with agricultural households, where spouses made decisions about money allocations.
Marina Nacka +2 more
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Natural Resources and Political Patronage in Africa: An Ethnicity Level Analysis
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the effect of resource discoveries on ethnicity‐level political patronage in Africa using a large geospatial dataset of 254 ethnic groups in 15 countries over the period 1960–2004. We find that the first (or single first) resource discovery in a virgin ethnic homeland increases the share of cabinet posts of that ethnicity.
Sambit Bhattacharyya, Nemera Mamo
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On the undesirable repercussions of gender norms in an endogenous growth model
The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Sustainable growth has emerged as a critical policy challenge worldwide. We investigate the influence of conventional gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high‐income countries. To this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply ...
Ryo Sakamoto, Katsunori Minami
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Editorial: Intertemporal Choice and Its Anomalies
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2019 Salvador Cruz Rambaud, Taiki Takahashi
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Generation Inequality in an Aging Society: The Demographic Welfare Dilemma
Social Policy &Administration, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study provides empirical evidence that Japanese local governments have political incentives to prioritize policies favoring the elderly population in order to secure electoral support. Such preferences may come at the expense of the younger generation, whose presence is often associated with reduced short‐term political performance.
Dachen Sheng, Heather A. Montgomery
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