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Polling Place Location and the Costs of Voting
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe study how distance to one’s polling place affects the likelihood of voting using a geographic regression discontinuity design with data from Pennsylvania and Georgia.
G. Bagwe, Juan Margitic, Allison Stashko
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The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity
The American Economic ReviewPoliticians may target public goods to benefit their constituents, at the expense of others. I study corruption in the context of Indian electricity and estimate the welfare consequences.
M. Mahadevan
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Using Social Media to Identify the Effects of Congressional Viewpoints on Asset Prices
Social Science Research NetworkWe use a high-frequency identification approach to document that individual politicians affect asset prices. We exploit the regular flow of viewpoints contained in Congress members’ tweets.
F. Bianchi, H. Kung, Roberto Gomez Cram
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Shining a Light on Firms' Political Connections: The Role of Dark Money
Social Science Research NetworkWe study the emergence of a new channel for firms’ political activity using dark money through undisclosed and unlimited contributions. After the U.S. federal court decisions in 2010, S&P 500 firms substantially increased their use of dark money.
Matthew Denes, Madeline Marco Scanlon
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Free Trade and the Formation of Environmental Policy: Evidence from US Legislative Votes
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyWe test the hypothesis that governments alter environmental policy in response to trade by studying NAFTA’s effects on the formation of environmental policy in the US House of Representatives between 1990 and 2000.
Jevan Cherniwchan, N. Najjar
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions†
American Economic Journal: Applied EconomicsPolitical distortions are prevalent in many developing countries, implying substantial productivity losses. This paper investigates the impact of trade liberalization on political distortions in India.
Sebastian Jävervall, Roza Khoban
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Impact of a Woman Mayor on Women's Local Political Participation. Does Partisanship Matter?
Urban Affairs ReviewAlthough women's presence in politics has grown, they remain underrepresented. This study analyses how exposure to successful women politicians influences the future representation of women candidates in local politics.
Joanna Siwińska-Gorzelak +1 more
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Proxy Advisory Firms and Corporate Shareholder Engagement
Social Science Research NetworkWe study how Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) affect firms’ engagement with shareholders. Our analyses exploit a quasi-natural experiment using say-on-pay voting outcomes near a threshold that triggers ISS to review engagement activities. Firms
Aiyesha Dey +2 more
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Do Tuition Subsidies Raise Political Participation?
American Economic Journal: Economic PolicyCivic externalities motivate education expenditures, but estimates of the civic returns to large-scale education subsidies are scarce. We use 16 million financial aid applications and a regression discontinuity (RD) design to estimate how a tuition-free ...
Daniel Firoozi, Igor Geyn
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The Politics of the Paycheck Protection Program
The Review of Corporate Finance StudiesDoes partisanship influence loan allocation through the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)? We examine the 2020 Presidential campaign contributions made by lenders’ employees as a partisanship measure and leverage the PPP’s phased implementation under ...
Deniz Igan +3 more
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