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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
11596 Thushyanthan Baskaran
Sonia R. Bhalotra
Brian Min
Yogesh Uppal
Women Legislators and Economic Performance
There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there is no evidence of how this influences economic performance. We investigate this ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Growth, 2024, 29, 151–214)
D72, D78, H44, H73
11595 Maksymilian Kwiek
Helia Marreiros
Michael Vlassopoulos
Voting as a War of Attrition
We study communication in committees selecting one of two alternatives when consensus is required and agents have private information about their preferences. Delaying the decision is costly, so a ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 167, 104-121, 2019.)
C78, C92, D72, D74
11594 Artjoms Ivlevs
Timothy Hinks
Former Communist Party Membership and Bribery in the Post-Socialist Countries
We study the effect of former Communist party membership on paying bribes to public officials and motivations for bribery, 25 years after the fall of communist rule. Data come from a large ...
(published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2018, 46 (4), 1411-1422)
D73, P37
11593 John Bennett
Matthew D. Rablen
Bribery, Hold-Up and Bureaucratic Structure
We analyze the provision of infrastructure by a foreign investor when the domestic bureaucracy is corrupt, but puts some weight on domestic welfare. The investor may pay a bribe in return for a ...
(published in: Economic Inquiry, 2021, 53, 880-903)
D73, H11
11592 David L. Dickinson
David Masclet
Using Ethical Dilemmas to Predict Antisocial Choices with Real Payoff Consequences: An Experimental Study
Anti-social behaviours are costly to organizations, and the ability to identify predictors of such behaviours can be valuable. In this paper, we used a within-subjects laboratory design to study ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2019, 166, 195-215.)
C90, C91, Z10
11590 Sonia R. Bhalotra
Damian Clarke
Joseph Gomes
Atheendar Venkataramani
Maternal Mortality and Women's Political Participation
Raising women's political participation leads to faster maternal mortality decline. We estimate that the introduction of quotas for women in parliament results in a 9 to 12% decline in maternal ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2023, 21 (5), 2172–2208)
I14, I15, O15
11589 Charles Courtemanche
Art Carden
Xilin Zhou
Murugi Ndirangu
Do Walmart Supercenters Improve Food Security?
This paper examines the effect of Walmart Supercenters, which lower food prices and expand food availability, on household and child food insecurity. Our food insecurity-related outcomes come from ...
(published in: Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, 2019, 41 (2), 177-198)
I12, I14, Q18
11588 Ian Gazeley
Andrew T. Newell
Kevin Reynolds
Hector Gutierrez Rufrancos
Nutrition in Interwar Britain: A Possible Resolution of the Healthy or Hungry 1930s Debate?
This paper re-examines energy and nutritional available to British working-class households in the 1930s using the individual household expenditure and consumption data derived from the 1937/8 ...
(published as 'How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain?' in: Economic History Review, 2022, 75 (1), 80 - 110)
I30, N34
11587 Badi H. Baltagi
Bernard Fingleton
Alain Pirotte
A Time-Space Dynamic Panel Data Model with Spatial Moving Average Errors
This paper focuses on the estimation and predictive performance of several estimators for the time-space dynamic panel data model with Spatial Moving Average Random Effects (SMA-RE) structure of the ...
(published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 76, 13-31)
C23
11586 Esther Mirjam Girsberger
Miriam Rinawi
Matthias Krapf
Wages and Employment: The Role of Occupational Skills
How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and estimate a search and matching model for workers with a VET degree. Workers ...
(published as 'Interpersonal, cognitive, and manual skills: How do they shape employment and wages?' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102235)
E24, J23, J24, J64
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