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Kinematical Evidence for Top Pair Production with Multijet Events in ppbar Collisions at s=1,8 TeV
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Observation of Top Quark Production in ppbar Collisions with the Collider Detector at Fermilab
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Immigration, ethnic diversity and voting: the role of individual income
Full text linkWe exploit a unique panel dataset merging data on individual socio-economic characteristics and individual turnout in an Italian municipality to investigate the relationship between ethnic diversity in residential neighborhoods and propensity to vote. Using these data, we document for the rst time a dierential eect of diversity on electoral turnout depending on household equivalent income. Specifically, we show that ethnic diversity in the neighborhood reduces the political participation of the poor, while it fosters that of the more auent. These results high- light a potential democratic de cit stemming from reduced and unequal electoral turnout in increasingly heterogeneous neighborhoods
Neighborhood heterogeneity and electoral turnout
Full text linkWe perform an empirical analysis to investigate how neighborhood heterogeneity affects electoral turnout. To this end, we rely on a unique dataset on local elections in an Italian municipality, which merges information on socio-economic characteristics of about 370.000 individuals with turnout data for 434 electoral precincts in 2004 and 2009. Exploiting both across and within precincts variation, we are able to disentangle the contextual effects on precinct-level electoral turnout of two different dimensions of neighborhood heterogeneity: income inequality and ethnic composition. Our results support the idea that contextual heterogeneity negatively affects political participation
Socio-Economic Heterogeneity and Electoral Turnout: An Aggregate Analysis with Precinct-Level Data
Full text linkIn this paper we perform an empirical analysis to investigate the impact of socio-economic heterogeneity on electoral turnout. We exploit a unique dataset on local elections in an Italian municipality, which merges information on socio-economic characteristics of about 370.000 individuals with turnout data at the precinct level in 2004 and 2009. Controlling for unobserved precinct-specific fixed effects, we find that electoral turnout is not affected by income inequality. We also document a negative effect on electoral participation of the share of immigrants, population density, and the share of singles. These results suggest that increased ethnic heterogeneity and reduced social pressure tend to depress turnout
Income inequality and banking crises: Testing the level hypothesis directly
Full text linkWe perform an empirical analysis to investigate the relationship between income inequality and the occurrence of banking crises on a panel of 33 advanced countries in the period 1970–2011. Differently from other empirical studies, we focus on levels rather than growth rates of income inequality. We find a statistically significant and positive relationship between the value of the Gini index and the probability of banking crises. This result is confirmed when income distribution is summarized by the top 1% income share
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