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Replication Data for: Citizenship and the Democratic Pendulum in Post-Communist Europe
No full textCitizenship data, 1990-2021 for 20 countrie
Replication package for: To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets
No full textThis package contains replication files for the results in "To Own or to Rent? The Effects of Transaction Taxes on Housing Markets" by Lu Han, L. Rachel Ngai, and Kevin D. Sheedy, to be published in the Review of Economic Studies. It contains code to reproduce the estimation results and the calibration and simulation of the quantitative model
Replication Data for: The Effect of International Actors on Public Support for Government Spending Decisions
No full textDoes the intervention of an international organization in domestic politics render policy change more popular? While voters may ultimately care only about policy outcomes, the involvement of international actors often seems to lead to resentment. Still, citizens may have greater faith in the wisdom of international actors than in their own government. As others have argued, a well-respected international actor might provide a cue, especially for voters considering controversial policies like spending cuts. We test this argument in a novel pre–post experimental panel study conducted in Spain. We find that citizens become less opposed to unpopular spending cuts when informed that they are required by an international institution. The effects differ, however, across the two organizations that we test: They are stronger for the European Union than for the International Monetary Fund. Our findings lend support to studies arguing that the endorsement of specific international organizations can help push through otherwise unpopular policies
Reelection in Democracies and Electoral Autocracies around the World (ReDrEAW), V2
No full textAssembles individual-level data on legislators serving in national lower house legislatures in 101 democracies and electoral autocracies in the 2000s and calculates country/legislature reelection rates. Individual-level characteristics include legislators’ names, election year, and whether reelected from the previous legislature
Council tax is an unfair mess – here’s a system that could work better
Get PDFThe consensus says that it’s a bad tax, yet politicians have been shying away from reforming council tax for decades. Paul Cheshire offers an alternative that could be fairer and act as the wealth tax that many are calling for
The role of the public in regulating organoids and embryo models
Get PDFA new technology makes it possible to transform skin cells into stem cells which in turn can develop into human organs, tissue and even embryos. Despite its ability to revolutionise medical research and human reproduction, this technology exists in a regulatory gap. Emily Jackson argues that the legal framework needs to catch up through the consultation of public opinion on the potential benefits and risks of this new technology
Freedom of expression on social media must come with responsibility
Get PDFFreedom of expression on social media must be protected, writes Robin Mansell. But we must also protect the rights of those exposed to content that fans hate speech and misinformation
What the search for a social unicorn tells us about scaling impact
Get PDFDo social unicorns exist? Kieron Boyle sets out the ambition of the 100x Impact Accelerator to impact hundreds of millions of lives and discusses what this project can teach us about scaling research and social impact
Essays in finance and innovation
No full textThis thesis examines which environments foster or possibly constrain innovation, focusing on three settings: the match between inventors and firm type, the regulatory environment surrounding new platform technologies and its effects on local economic prosperity, and the labor markets for inventive talent across countries. The first chapter asks whether large-scale innovative environments—firms with high patenting activity—are associated with higher individual inventor productivity. Using German employer–employee data linked to European Patent Office records, I document sizable inventor-level productivity premia at large-scale innovative firms. Exploiting geographic constraints faced by German apprentices, which generate quasi-random variation in access to large-scale innovative employers, I show that improved access raises early-career patenting by roughly 20%, consistent with a causal link between firm innovative scale and individual productivity. The positive association extends to seasoned inventors. Evidence points to co-worker spillovers and capital–labor complementarities as likely mechanisms. The second chapter analyzes how regulation shapes the composition of local economic activity around a prominent platform innovation: peer-to-peer short-term rental intermediaries such as Airbnb and Vrbo. Using a staggered difference-in-differences design for U.S. counties from 2010 to 2020, I find limited or no effects on housing prices or tax revenue. By contrast, GDP and personal income per capita in accommodation and food services increase, consistent with reallocation from informal hosting toward hotels. Despite the political controversy surrounding STR platforms, current regulations appear to have only modest aggregate economic consequences while shifting activity across closely related sectors. The third chapter compares the labor-market environments for inventors in Germany and the United States using comprehensive employer–employee microdata. Both countries exhibit aging inventor populations, low female participation, growing concentration of inventors in larger and older firms, and declining job mobility. They differ, however, in their ability to attract foreign-born inventors, in the strength of the earnings–productivity relationship, and in the types of firms where inventor output is highest. Taken together, these findings shed light on the possible sources of slowing innovative performance in advanced economies
