International Political Economy (IPEC)

Do women vote for women? Evidence from the Argentine National Congress

Spaccarotella, Brittany (2013-04-25)

Whether or not female representation has an impact in legislative bodies across the world has been hotly debated. Much of the research indicates that female representatives have more interest in women, children, and familial ...
Foreign Aid and Corruption

Lim, Jihyuk John (2013-04-25)

Foreign aid and corruption have received a lot of scholarly attention in the recent decades, but there have only been a few papers empirically examining the causal relationship between the two. This paper uses a unique, ...
I Know Where The Good Grain Grows: Famine, Information, and Institutions in Ancient Empires

Fischer, Michael (2013-04-25)
Value of a Green Card: Determinants of Immigrant Wage Increases Following Adjustment to U.S. Permanent Residence Status

Chen, Yanning (2013-04-25)

In this paper, I estimate the magnitudes of wage gain to immigrants following adjustment to U.S. permanent residence status. With data from the New Immigrant Survey Pilot (1996), I find that possessing a green card removes ...