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Drought Declarations and Voting Outcomes: Evidence from Tunisia
No full textUsing a novel dataset in a difference-in-differences framework, I study the political implications of the change in policies protecting drought-impacted communities in Tunisia in 3088 districts. In 2016, the Tunisian government had drastically reduced support to farmers affected by droughts. I show that this resulted in lower vote share for the incumbent candidate in the second round of the 2019 presidential elections. The magnitudes are substantial: a one standard deviation increase in the district-level damage caused by droughts after the policy change leads to a decline in the incumbent's vote share by 10 percentage points. I show that the likely mechanism is the rise of public discontent: the drought-affected districts had a higher number of riots or violent protests relative to the policy change. I find no significant effects either on voter turnout, closeness to incumbent party at the parliamentary elections or on trust in political parties at the parliament
Trois essais sur l'économie politique de l'adoption des robots et des politiques de lutte contre la sécheresse
No full textThis dissertation explores the socio-economic and political implications of robotization and climate shocks through three empirical chapters. Chapter 1 examines the impact of robotization in South Korea on individual life satisfaction. A robot exposure index is constructed using occupational and demographic data. Using KLIPS data and a DiD framework, the study observes two phases: 2005–2009 and post-2009. Initially, exposure to robots reduced life satisfaction, especially among less-educated workers. Post-2009, robot exposure improved satisfaction for young, highly educated males due to higher employment. Wage gains were concentrated among the tertiary-educated, indicating productivity effects.The displacement effect led to part-time work and job switching for low-skilled workers. Household-level analysis shows negative impacts were driven by spouses of displaced workers. Regional-level IV analysis using Singapore and replaceability indices finds no strong productivity or psychological effects. Chapter 2 explores robotization’s effect on political polarization in South Korea.
Using IFR and KLIPS data, the study finds rising support for both Left and Right parties.
Center parties lost votes, especially in parliamentary elections.
Polarization is driven by generational divides; older, disadvantaged workers lean Right.
A shift-share IV approach, using Singapore’s robot adoption, supports causal inference. Chapter 3 investigates Tunisia’s 2016 drought policy change and its electoral consequences.Ending drought relief led to reduced support for the incumbent president in 2019. A DiD strategy with district-level drought damage and electoral data is employed.
Policy backlash was evident in agricultural areas but did not affect voter turnout.
Voters punished the president but not the parliament, reflecting Tunisia’s hybrid democracy. The study reveals how economic grievances influence electoral outcomes under weak party systems.Cette thèse explore les implications socio-économiques et politiques de la robotisation et des chocs climatiques à travers trois chapitres empiriques. Le chapitre 1 examine l'impact de la robotisation en Corée du Sud sur la satisfaction de la vie individuelle. Un indice d'exposition aux robots est construit à partir de données professionnelles et démographiques. À l'aide des données KLIPS et d'un cadre DiD, l'étude observe deux phases : 2005-2009 et après 2009. Au départ, l'exposition aux robots a réduit la satisfaction à l'égard de la vie, en particulier chez les travailleurs les moins instruits. Après 2009, l'exposition aux robots a amélioré la satisfaction des jeunes hommes très instruits en raison d'un taux d'emploi plus élevé. Les gains salariaux étaient concentrés chez les diplômés de l'enseignement supérieur, ce qui indique des effets de productivité. L'effet de déplacement a conduit au travail à temps partiel et au changement d'emploi pour les travailleurs peu qualifiés. L'analyse au niveau des ménages montre que les impacts négatifs sont le fait des conjoints des travailleurs déplacés. L'analyse IV au niveau régional utilisant les indices de Singapour et de remplaçabilité ne révèle pas d'effets importants sur la productivité ou sur le plan psychologique. Le chapitre 2 étudie l'effet de la robotisation sur la polarisation politique en Corée du Sud. En utilisant les données IFR et KLIPS, l'étude constate une augmentation du soutien aux partis de gauche et de droite. Les partis du centre ont perdu des voix, en particulier lors des élections législatives. La polarisation est alimentée par les clivages générationnels ; les travailleurs plus âgés et défavorisés penchent pour la droite. Une approche IV de type shift-share, utilisant l'adoption de robots à Singapour, soutient l'inférence causale. Le chapitre 3 étudie le changement de politique de la Tunisie en matière de sécheresse en 2016 et ses conséquences électorales.
La fin de l'aide à la sécheresse a conduit à une réduction du soutien au président sortant en 2019.
Une stratégie DiD avec des données sur les dommages causés par la sécheresse au niveau des districts et des données électorales est utilisée.
Le contrecoup de la politique a été évident dans les zones agricoles, mais n'a pas affecté la participation électorale.
Les électeurs ont sanctionné le président mais pas le parlement, ce qui reflète la démocratie hybride de la Tunisie.
L'étude révèle comment les griefs économiques influencent les résultats électoraux dans les systèmes de partis faibles
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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