Although political views have been thought to arise largely from individuals' experiences, recent research suggests that they may have a biological basis. We present evidence that variations in political attitudes correlate with physiological traits. In a group of 46 adult participants with strong political beliefs, individuals with measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and t...

The simple one-good model of life-cycle consumption requires that consumption be continuous over retirement; yet prior research based on partial measures of consumption or on synthetic panels indicates that spending drops at retirement, a result that has been called the retirement-consumption puzzle. Using panel data on total spending, nondurable spending and food spending, we find that spendin...

In recent years, most scientific research in both academia and industry has become increasingly data-driven. According to market estimates, spending related to supporting scientific dataintensive research is expected to increase to $5.8 billion by 2018 [1]. Particularly for dataintensive scientific fields such as bioscience, or particle physics within academic environments, data storage/process...

This paper estimates the effects of incumbent spending and challenger spending in U.S. House elections in the 1970s and 1980s. The paper employs FIML simultaneous equations analysis involving instrumental variables as vote predictors, and zero-covariance restrictions for the vote-spending disturbances. This procedure allows the estimation of spending effects given plausible assumptions about th...

Immigration and Public Spending We examine the effect of immigration on public spending from a theoretical (political economic) and an empirical perspective. We distinguish between public spending on private goods and on public goods. Our model implies that whether immigration increases or decreases public spending primarily depends on native’s preferences for private versus public good spendin...

This brief examines the geographic distribution of federal spending in Georgia. Due to the continued budgetary pressure on the federal government as well as the Budget Control Act of 2011 (BCA), it seems likely that federal spending will decline in Georgia in the years to come. Federal spending in Georgia is substantial. For instance, fiscal year 2010 federal spending examined in this brief of ...

This paper empirically examined the effect of public expenditure on inflation in Nigeria from 1981 to 2018. The study adopts descriptive statistics, Co-integration and Error Correction Mechanism techniques for analysis. data empirical analysis were sourced secondary sources like CBN Statistical Bulletin. results indicated that a long run relationship exists among variables. Furthermore, reveale...

Government spending is categorized into consumption spending and capital spending. Three categories of private consumption are used: food consumption, nonfood consumption, and services consumption. The estimated model indicates substitution effects of government consumption spending on budget shares of private nonfood consumption and of government capital spending on budget share of private foo...

Abstract Debates in the ruling circles of Russian Empire about its military spending from 1860s to early 1890s are considered. The positions opposing government departments examined and analyzed: Ministry Finance, State Control, Department Economy, some other central institutions demanded measure costs army with limited Treasury resources, War advocated a significant increase allocations for ne...