CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM
Sarah Anzia, Associate Professor of Public Policy & Political Science, Berkeley.
The Political Influence of City Employees: Civil Service Adoption in America
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics; and chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
As modern life increasingly moves online, our ability to understand the impact of the Internet on society has grown critically dependent upon the benevolence of tech platforms. To date, corporate data sharing programs have largely failed to meet the needs of the research community aimed at this problem. In this talk, the…
About 11% of the Chinese population are rural-urban migrants, and the vast majority of them (124 million people) possess a rural hukou which severely restrict their children’s access to urban public schools. As a result, 61 million children are left behind in rural areas. We use a regression-discontinuity design based on school…
We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more…
