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15278 Chandan Jain
Shagun Kashyap
Rahul Lahoti
Soham Sahoo
Do Educated Leaders Affect Economic Development? Evidence from India
Although formal education is often considered an indicator of political leaders' quality, the evidence on the effectiveness of educated leaders is mixed. Besides, minimum education qualifications are ...
(published as 'The impact of educated leaders on economic development: Evidence from India' in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2023, 51 (3), 1068-1093)
D72, H11, H41, O40
15277 Patrick Balles
Ulrich Matter
Alois Stutzer
Television Market Size and Political Accountability in the US House of Representatives
This paper examines the role of local TV market structure in US congressional politics, exploiting variation in the overlaps of political markets and TV markets. Local TV stations are hypothesized to ...
(revised version published in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2023, 80, 102459)
D72, L82
15276 Marco Francesconi
Jonathan James
Alcohol Price Floors and Externalities: The Case of Fatal Road Crashes
In May 2018, Scotland introduced a minimum unit price on alcohol. We examine the impact of this policy on traffic fatalities and drunk driving accidents. Using administrative data on the universe of ...
(published in: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 2022, 41 (4), 1118 - 1156)
D12, D62, H23, K42, R41
15275 David Gill
Victoria L. Prowse
Strategic Complexity and the Value of Thinking
Response times are a simple low-cost indicator of the process of reasoning in strategic games. In this paper, we leverage the dynamic nature of response-time data from repeated strategic interactions ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2023, 133 (650), 761–786,)
C72, C91
15274 Jens Olav Dahlgaard
Nicolai Kristensen
Frederik Kjøller Larsen
Reward or Punishment? The Distribution of Life-Cycle Returns to Political Office
How political office is remunerated will affect who decides to engage in politics. Even if average returns to office are positive, as unilaterally found in the literature, some office holders' ...
(published online in: Political Science Research and Methods, 06 January 2025 )
J33, J4
15272 Hippolyte D'Albis
Karina Doorley
Elena G. F. Stancanelli
Older Mothers' Employment and Marriage Stability When the Nest Is Empty
A significant literature in the social sciences addresses the impact of child-bearing and rearing on marital stability and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' ...
(published in: Molina, J.A. (eds), Mothers in the Labor Market, Springer, 2022, 247 - 269)
J12, J14, J22
15271 Pedro Luís Silva
Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?
This paper studies whether universities should select their students only using specialised subject-specific tests or based on a broader set of skills and knowledge. I show that even if broader ...
(published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18 (2), 227–271)
I23, I24, I28, J24
15268 Andrew E. Clark
Luis Diaz-Serrano
Do Individuals Adapt to All Types of Housing Transitions?
This paper provides one of the first tests of adaptation to the complete set of residential transitions. We use long-run SOEP panel data and consider the impact of all housing transitions, whether or ...
(published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2023, 21 (2), 645–672)
D19, R21
15267 Jason M. Lindo
Krishna Regmi
Isaac D. Swensen
Stable Income, Stable Family
We document the effect of unemployment insurance generosity on divorce and fertility using an identification strategy that leverages state-level changes in maximum benefits over time and comparisons ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 107 (3), 653–667.)
J12, J13, J16, J65, H53, I38
15266 Ali Moghaddasi Kelishomi
Daniel Sgroi
The Relationship between Cognitive Ability and Risk Preferences in a Developing Nation: Findings from the Field
We find a strong relationship between risk-loving preferences and cognitive ability which becomes stronger as adherence to the generalized axiom of revealed preference (a proxy for rationality) ...
(published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 216, 110576)
I11, I12, I18, C93, D03
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