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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections
Social Science Research Network, 2022 IZA DP No. 14981 DECEMBER 2021 The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections* This paper documents an important but mostly overlooked reason for female underrepresentation in politics: gender gaps in the recontest likelihood of candidates.
T. Baskaran, Zohal Hessami
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Policy Experimentation in Committees: A Case against Veto Rights under Redistributive Constraints
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2021 We study optimal policy experimentation by a committee. We consider a dynamic bargaining game in which committee members choose either a risky reform or a safe alternative each period.
Vincent Anesi, T. R. Bowen
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Hukuk ve iktisat araştırmaları dergisi, 2022 Bu kısa çalışma içerisinde kamu tercihi perspektifinden herestetik, retorik, politik manipülasyon gibi kavramlardan yola çıkılarak seçime dayalı demokrasilerde siyasal iktidarların yönetimde daha uzun süre kalmak için kurumları nasıl ele geçirdiklerini ...
Coşkun Can Aktan
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How Research Affects Policy: Experimental Evidence from 2,150 Brazilian Municipalities
The American Economic Review, 2019 Can research findings change political leaders’ beliefs and policies? We use experiments with 2,150 Brazilian municipalities to measure mayors’ demand for and response to research information.
Jonas Hjort +3 more
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, 2018 This paper examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies (ALMPs) in improving labour market outcomes, especially of low-skilled individuals, by means of a pooled cross-country and time series database for 31 advanced countries during the ...
V. Escudero
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Did U.S. Politicians Expect the China Shock?
Social Science Research Network, 2020 Information sets, expectations, and preferences of politicians are fundamental, but unobserved determinants of their policy choices. Employing repeated votes in the US House of Representatives on China’s normal trade relations (NTR) status during the two
M. Bombardini +2 more
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Electoral Cycles in Fiscal Rules: International Empirical Evidence
CESifo Economic StudiesUsing panel data from 99 countries over the period of 1985–2020, this study aims to uncover that fiscal rules work in electoral cycles. The results show that fiscal rules are less likely to be implemented in the pre-election year.
H. Jung, Bong Hwan Kim
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Laboratories of Democracy: Policy Experimentation under Decentralization
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2019 We develop a model of policy experimentation in which the policy decisions of local and national politicians are driven by career concerns. When politicians’ payoffs are convex in their reputation and policy-making is opaque, local politicians experiment
Chen Cheng, Christopher Li
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Informational Lobbying and Pareto-Improving Agenda Constraint
Journal of Law, Economics & Organization, 2018 Interest groups (IGs) lobby policymaker (PM) by offering verifiable, policy-relevant information. The PM is limited in (1) his ability to verify the information offered by the IGs (access constraint) and (2) the number of issues he can implement reform
Arnaud Dellis, Mandar P. Oak
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An empirical inquiry into the determinants of public education spending in Europe
, 2015 This paper makes two important contributions. Firstly, it uncovers some of the main economic determinants driving the dynamics of public education spending in Europe.
Catalin Dragomirescu-Gaina
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