Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data

Primo, David M.; Jacobsmeier, Matthew L.; Milyo, Jeffrey

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“…We refrain here from a detailed discussion (though cf. Franzese, 2005; as well as Primo et al, 2007 for an exhaustive as well as instructive debate), but point instead to the two issues most relevant in our decision for the two-step approach. First, simultaneous models tend to experience convergence problems when faced with large clusters (i.e.…”

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Unemployed and alone? Unemployment and social participation in Europe

Dieckhoff

Gash²

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Purpose -In this article we examine the relationship between unemployment and social participation and aim to identify the role of national policies and attitudes as possible mediators. Permanent repository linkDesign/Methodology/Approach -We use the 2006 EU-SILC module on social participation -a dataset that provides rich information on social participation for 26 EU countries. We adopt a twostage multilevel design, allowing us to directly examine the impact of national policies and norms on individual outcome. Findings -The article reveals clear evidence that the unemployed are less socially engaged than the employed across a range of indicators. The paper also reveals that macro-level variables significantly affect the extent of these differentials in social engagement. For instance, we found societies which expose the unemployed to poverty risk show a larger social participation gap between the employed and the unemployed.Originality/Value -While the negative association between unemployment and social participation has been established in prior work, our study is the first one to employ a 'large N' comparison and using a multi-level design to statistically test the degree to which macro-level variables mediate the negative impact of unemployment on social participation. Our analyses were able to show that societal context can significantly alleviate the negative implications of unemployment for social participation.

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Unemployed and alone? Unemployment and social participation in Europe

Dieckhoff

Gash²

2015

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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“…The outcome variables are measured at the individual level and the main predictor of interest (family practices) are measured at the country-level and this could bias our estimates. To correct for this we have used clustered standard errors and in an alternative specification used a varying-intercept multilevel model (Primo et al 2007;Bates et al 2015).…”

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Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics

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Carmichael

2016

Economic History of Developing Regions

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This paper investigates the possibilities for the creation of a global dataset on family and household characteristics. This is done by scrutinizing and comparing two prominent data sources on family system classifications. We first focus on historical data, by comparing Emmanuel Todd's classification of countries by family systems with ethnographic data compiled in George Murdock's Ethnographic Atlas. Qualitative and quantitative tests show that the two datasets frequently agree about family traits. Nonetheless, substantial differences exist that are mostly attributable to the focus of the datasets on different regions, and the difficulties in translating local, descriptive studies to hard data. We therefore emphasize that it is important to know the strengths and weaknesses of the two datasets and emphasize that robustness checks are necessary in empirical research into family characteristics. We also compare these historical data with present-day data. This comparison suggests that family characteristics and the values associated with them can persist over long periods. Auke Rijpma, Utrecht University, Drift 6, 3512BK Utrecht, The Netherlands. Email: a.rijpma@uu.nl Sarah G. Carmichael, Utrecht University, Drift 6, 3512BK Utrecht, The Netherlands. Email: s.g. carmichael@uu.nl We would like to thank Tine De Moor, Jan Kok and Jan Luiten van Zanden for their comments on previous versions of this paper. Additionally we are grateful to Jaco Zuijderduijn, Bastian Mönke-diek, Pim de Zwart, Paul Rotering, Benjamin Guilbert, Christiaan van Bochove, Oscar Gelderblom, Maarten Prak, Selin Dilli, Lotte van der Vleuten, and Kati Buzási for their comments during workshops in April and June 2012. We also thank participants at the WEHC 2012 session 'Marriage patterns, agency in households, and economic growth' and three anonymous referees. Last but not least we thank Jutta Bolt for the underlying data, her patience, and always responding to our numerous email questions.10

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“…we used a regression with clustered standard errors (Primo et al, 2007) (Table 2). Running a regression with such a small number of cases does, of course, mean that the results have to be interpreted with special care.…”

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From constraining to catalysing dissensus? The impact of political contestation on parliamentary communication in EU affairs

2016

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National parliaments have the potential to serve as transmission belts between the European Union (EU) and their citizens. By publicly communicating EU issues, they can enhance the visibility, public accountability and ultimately the legitimacy of supranational governance. Not least since the Eurozone crisis, this task has become increasingly important in the ever more politicised context of EU integration characterised by public and partisan contestation. Against this background, the aim of the paper is to investigate the communication efforts of national parliaments in EU affairs and, in particular, to analyse the impact of the levels of contestation of EU issues both within the public and the parliamentary arena on their communication activities. In a nutshell, in how far has political contestation acted as a catalyst for parliamentary communication of EU affairs? Our data on plenary activities in seven EU parliaments from 2010 to 2013 reveals that political contestation in public opinion has a positive impact, while contestation within parliament may hamper communication of EU affairs.

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Estimating the Impact of State Policies and Institutions with Mixed-Level Data

Cited by 342 publications

References 24 publications

Unemployed and alone? Unemployment and social participation in Europe

Unemployed and alone? Unemployment and social participation in Europe

Testing Todd and Matching Murdock: Global Data on Historical Family Characteristics

From constraining to catalysing dissensus? The impact of political contestation on parliamentary communication in EU affairs

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