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Estimating the effect of spillovers on exports: a meta-analysis
This study uses meta-analysis to study the effect of spillovers on exports. It collects 3291 estimated spillover effects from 99 studies. The estimated spillover effects in the literature span a large number o...
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How right-to-work laws affect wages
I examine the wage effects of Right-To-Work (RTW). Using state-level data, I estimate that, ceteris paribus, RTW states have average wages that are significantly higher than non-RTW states. This result is robu...
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A comparison of prospective and retrospective voting with heterogeneous politicians
A long-standing empirical literature has been concerned with determining whether voters vote “prospectively or “retrospectively.” Despite this interest, little is known about the consequences of one voting reg...
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The relationship between congressional spending and tenure with an application to term limits
Whether term limits would increase or decrease federal spending depends on the reason for the causal relationship between tenure and spending. We investigate this subject by empirically studying congressional ...
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Endogenizing the median voter: Public choice goes to school
This paper investigates implications of the relationship between voter self-selection and the behavior of politicians. Voter self-selection arises in elections because only a portion of eligible voters actuall...
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An Analysis of the Impact of Congressional Term Limits on Turnover and Party Balance
The widespread support for term limitations seems to have caught both popular commentators and academic researchers by surprise.1 Why do voters want them? and What is the likely impact of such legislation? A smal...
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Impact of Congressional Tenure Restriction on Spending
One common explanation for the popularity of the term limits movement is that voters are dissatisfied with “runaway” or “out of control” federal spending. According to this view, term limits are seen as a way ...
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The behavior of congressional tenure over time: 1953–1991
This paper studies the behavior of average length of tenure for cohorts of U.S. representatives who entered office from 1953–1989. Using a new methodology, it addresses the following questions. How much longer...
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The marriage premium and compensating wage differentials
This paper proposes and tests an alternative explanation of the marriage premium that relies upon differences in workers' tastes and compensating wage differentials. A key assumption is that marital status pro...
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Shirking and sorting in a political market with finite-lived politicians
This paper analyzes principal-agent slack in the context of a political market composed of voters, challengers, and incumbents. The introduction of a last period (via finite-livedness) in combination with vote...
