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Publikováno v:
Economics & Politics.
Autor:
Peter T. Calcagno, Meg M. Montgomery
Publikováno v:
Public Choice. 188:183-201
The gender wage gap has been a concern in the United States since the mid-twentieth century. Congress and some states have enacted and continue to advocate equal pay legislation. We extend the analysis to Congress itself, which is important for two r
Autor:
Beatriz Maldonado, Peter T. Calcagno
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics Letters. 27:1010-1015
The literature on divided government focuses on the relationship between divided government and its size and has found that governments are limited when divided government exists. Fewer studies hav...
Autor:
Calvin Blackwell, Peter T. Calcagno
Publikováno v:
Applied Economics Letters. 26:1641-1648
Open and semi-open primaries allow members of opposing political parties to participate in the selection of candidates for the general election. This feature has led to the claim that partisans wil...
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
This paper investigates the relationship between income inequality and political party alternation at the US state level using panel data from 1971 to 2015. We hypothesize that income inequality leads to more regime instability in the form of alterna
Publikováno v:
Contemporary Economic Policy. 37:9-24
The profit and loss system is an integral part of a dynamic market economy. Losses eliminate businesses that are inefficiently managed or whose products no longer provide sufficient value. Almost a dozen popular television shows feature entertaining
Autor:
Peter T. Calcagno, Monica Escaleras
Publikováno v:
Contemporary Economic Policy. 36:410-422
A transportation network is vital to an economy. However, the U.S. highway infrastructure suffers from insufficient maintenance creating inefficiencies such as increased travel times and increase in accidents. The means to fund the infrastructure and
Autor:
Edward J. Lopez, Peter T. Calcagno
Publikováno v:
Journal of Institutional Economics. 13:211-242
Two shifts of informal rules occurred in the decades around the turn of the 20th century that continue to shape U.S. fiscal policy outcomes. Spending norms in the electorate shifted to expand the scope of the government budget to promote economic sec
Autor:
Frank L. Hefner, Peter T. Calcagno
Publikováno v:
Review of Regional Studies. 48
Economic development incentives by state and local governments have been shown to have little positive economic effect on employment or growth. Using a political economy approach, we investigate the characteristics associated with fiscal conditions a
Autor:
Peter T. Calcagno
Publikováno v:
SSRN Electronic Journal.
Todays fiscal policy challenges are rooted in the way that fiscal policy rules have evolved over the history of the United States. This paper demonstrates that two shifts of informal norms occurred in the decades surrounding the turn of the 20th ce