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Essays in Political Economy and Institutions.
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正題名/作者:
Essays in Political Economy and Institutions./
作者:
Gonzalez, Felipe.
面頁冊數:
1 online resource (197 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Contained By:
Dissertation Abstracts International78-12A(E).
標題:
Economic theory. -
電子資源:
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ISBN:
9780355263060
Essays in Political Economy and Institutions.
Gonzalez, Felipe.
Essays in Political Economy and Institutions.
- 1 online resource (197 pages)
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-12(E), Section: A.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2017.
Includes bibliographical references
The first chapter of my dissertation studies the 2011 student movement in Chile, the largest protest mobilization in the country's history, in which hundreds of thousands of students skipped school to protest with the goal of reforming the educational system. Using administrative data on millions of students' daily school attendance decisions on protest and non-protest days, a large network composed by the lifetime history of classmates, and differential network exposure to the first national protest, I employ an instrumental variables approach to test how networks affect protest behavior. The main finding is that individual participation follows a threshold model of collective behavior: students were influenced by their networks to skip school on protest days only when more than 40 percent of the members of their networks also skipped school. Additional findings show that protest participation imposed significant educational costs on students and helped to shift votes towards non-traditional opposition parties. Taken together, results indicate that networks amplify the effect of protests in non-linear ways with potentially significant consequences for institutional change.
Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018
Mode of access: World Wide Web
ISBN: 9780355263060Subjects--Topical Terms:
809881
Economic theory.
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The third chapter, co-authored with Mounu Prem, studies firms during Chile's transition to democracy. Political transitions are associated with significant economic changes, but little is known about how firms fare across regimes. We study Chile's democratization and show that firms in the dictator's network make critical investments in physical capital during the political transition. These investments are made possible by government banks during the dictatorship and allow firms to improve their market position in the new regime. Our results show how market distortions can be transferred across political regimes.
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