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European Journal of Social Psychology:
Worldview defence and self-determination theory explain the return of racial voting: evidence from the 2016 US election

We use self-determination (SDT) and worldview defence theories (WDT) to explicate the psychological roots of identitarian voting in recent US, UK and EU elections. We test our theory using the 2016 US election as a case ...Read more...

Robert Breunig, Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Mark Fabian

1 February 2023

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics:
The price ain't right? hospital prices and health spending on the privately insured

We use insurance claims data covering 28% of individuals with employersponsored health insurance in the United States to study the variation in health spending on the privately insured, examine the structure of insurer-h...Read more...

Zack Cooper, Stuart Craig, Martin Gaynor and John Van Reenen

1 February 2019

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The Economic Journal:
The distribution of talent across contests

Do the contests with the largest prizes attract the most able contestants? To what extent do contestants avoid competition? We show that the distribution of abilities is crucial in determining contest choice. Complete so...Read more...

Ghazala Azmat and Marc Moller

1 March 2018

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The Economic Journal:
Guarding the guardians

Good government requires some restraints on the powerful but how can those be imposed if there is no-one above them? This article studies the equilibrium allocation of power and resources established by self-interested i...Read more...

Bernardo Guimaraes and Kevin D. Sheedy

1 November 2017

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American Economic Review:
A structural model of the retail market for illicit drugs

We estimate a model of illicit drugs markets using data on purchases of crack cocaine. Buyers are searching for high-quality drugs, but they determine drugs' quality (i.e., their purity) only after consuming them. Hence,...Read more...

Manolis Galenianos and Alessandro Gavazza

1 March 2017

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The Economic Journal:
Unemployment and domestic violence: theory and evidence

Does rising unemployment really increase domestic violence as many commentators expect? The contribution of this article is to examine how changes in unemployment affect the incidence of domestic abuse. Theory predicts t...Read more...

Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer, Jonathan Wadsworth and Tanya Wilson

1 November 2016