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Pandering in the Shadows: How Natural Disasters Affect Special Interest Politics

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy
We exploit the quasi-random timing of natural disasters to study the connection between public attention to politics and legislators’ support for special interests.
Ethan Kaplan, J¨org L. Spenkuch, Haishan Yuan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Passing Your Gun to Your Enemy—Madness or Rationality? Rational Transfers in a Network 
of Contests

Arthaniti-Journal of Economic Theory and Practice
Transferring conflict-resources to an enemy is clearly irrational in a two-agent contest. But it might be possible (in equilibrium) in a network of contests.
Dripto Bakshi, Ajit Mishra
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preferences for Firearms

American Economic Review: Insights
This paper provides a critical input into crafting effective firearms policy: an understanding of consumer demand for guns. We estimate individual-level price sensitivity and substitution patterns across gun types using stated-choice experiments. We find
Sarah Moshary, Bradley Shapiro, Sara Drango   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Voter Information and Distributive Politics

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics
Does more information benefit voters? I examine this question in a novel setting of distributive politics and electoral accountability. Homogeneously informed electorates can benefit from less information through improvements in the control or screening ...
B. Blumenthal
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Friendship Networks and Political Opinions

The American Economic Review
We examine how social interactions and friendships shape students’ political opinions in a natural experiment at Sciences Po, a leading French university specializing in social and political sciences.
Yann Algan, Nicolò Dalvit, Quoc-Anh Do, Alexis Le Chapelain, Yves Zenou   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Power, Property Rights, and the Dynamics of Local Wealth Appropriation

Social Science Research Network
We examine the dynamic connections between local wealth inequality and the local politics of property rights. A jurisdiction comprises a politically dominant in-group and a marginalized out-group. At each date, the jurisdiction exploits weaknesses in due
Dan Cao, Roger Lagunoff, Ying Xu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Political Development Cycle: The Right and the Left in People’s Republic of China from 1953

The American Economic Review
We quantify the effects of the political development cycle—the fluctuations between the Left (Maoist) and the Right (pragmatist) development policies—on growth and structural transformation of China in 1953–1978.
Anton Cheremukhin, M. Golosov, S. Guriev, A. Tsyvinski   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Water Pollution Progress at Borders: The Role of Changes in China's Political Promotion Incentives

, 2015
Matthew E. Kahn, Pei Li, Daxuan Zhao
semanticscholar   +1 more source