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作者：Bracco, Emanuele; De Paola, Maria; Green, Colin P.; Scoppa, Vincenzo
作者单位：University of Verona; Lancaster University; University of Calabria; IZA Institute Labor Economics; Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)
摘要：Immigration has increasingly taken centre-stage in the political landscape. Part of this has been a rise in far-right, anti-immigration parties in a range of countries. Existing evidence suggests that the presence of immigrants generates an advantage for parties with anti-immigration or nationalist platforms. This paper explores a closely related but overlooked issue: how immigrant behaviour is influenced by these parties. We focus on immigrant location decisions in Northern Italy, an area tha...
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作者：Mastrorocco, Nicola; Minale, Luigi
作者单位：Trinity College Dublin; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
摘要：In democracies, voters rely on media outlets to learn about politically salient issues. This raises an important question: how strongly can media affect public perceptions? This paper uses a natural experiment - the staggered introduction of the Digital TV signal in Italy - to measure the effect of media persuasion on the perceptions individuals hold. We focus on crime perceptions and, combining channel-specific viewership and content data, we show that the reduced exposure to channels charact...
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作者：Cheng, Cheng; Long, Wei
作者单位：University of Mississippi; Tulane University
摘要：This study sheds light on the improvement of police services by examining the French Quarter Task Force (FQTF) - an anti-crime program in New Orleans' French Quarter. First, we provide new evidence that increasing police presence is effective in crime prevention. Our difference-in-differences estimates suggest that the FQTF, which increased police visibility in the French Quarter, reduced robberies, aggravated assaults, and thefts by 37.4%, 16.9%, and 13%, respectively. Second, our findings im...
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作者：Poterba, James; Venti, Steven; Wise, David A.
作者单位：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：Inequality in wealth among elderly households, and in particular the prevalence of very low wealth holdings, can be an important consideration in the design of social insurance programs. This paper examines the incidence and determinants of low levels of financial and total wealth using repeated cross-sections of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and a small longitudinal sample of HRS respondents observed both at age 65 and shortly before death. Most of those who report very low wealth hol...
