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Mark Wooden: Contributions to Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, HILDA and Inter‐Disciplinary Research on Panel Data

open access: yesAustralian Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reviews Mark Wooden's contributions over the last 40 years to Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, the HILDA Survey, and inter‐disciplinary research relating to work, family and well‐being. He has had an extraordinary academic career, including 23 years as Director of the HILDA survey.
Peter Dawkins
wiley   +1 more source

The Political Polarization Index [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
American politics have become increasingly polarized in recent decades. To the extent that political polarization introduces uncertainty about economic policy, this pattern may have adversely affected the economy. According to existing theories, a rise in the volatility of fiscal shocks faced by individuals should result in a decline in economic ...
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Political polarization and health

Nature Medicine
In addition to social determinants of health, such as economic resources, education, access to care and various environmental factors, there is growing evidence that political polarization poses a substantial risk to individual and collective well-being. Here we review the impact of political polarization on public health.
Jay J Van Bavel   +3 more
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SPECIALIZED LEARNING AND POLITICAL POLARIZATION

International Economic Review, 2021
AbstractWhen citizens are differentiated by how much they care about different issues informing policy, specialization allows them to concentrate their learning on the issues that are most important to them. However, as different citizens focus on different issues, the electorate becomes less responsive to party platforms.
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Political polarization in financial news

Journal of Financial Economics, 2020
Standard explanations for political polarization of news don’t apply to financial news. Nevertheless, we find strong evidence of political polarization in corporate financial news on both intensive and extensive margins of coverage. To control for firm and newspaper heterogeneity, we compare coverage of the same firm-level events by news-papers with ...
Eitan Goldman   +2 more
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Portrait of Political Party Polarization

Network Science, 2013
To find out, we measure co-voting similarity networks in the US Senate and trace individual careers over time. Standard network visualization tools fail on dense highly clustered networks, so we used two aggregation strategies to clarify positional mobility over time. First, clusters of Senators who often vote the same way capture coalitions, and allow
James Moody, Peter J. Mucha
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Polarization and Politics

2010
I’m amazed at some of the really, really painful stories that six-year-olds and seven-year-olds are bringing to school, and the efforts of schools to deal with these things.
Chester E. Finn   +2 more
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