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    • Do Political Protests Matter? Evidence from the Tea Party Movement 

      Madestam, A.; Shoag, Daniel W; Veuger, S.; Yanagizawa-Drott, David Hans (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2013)
      Can protests cause political change, or are they merely symptoms of underlying shifts in policy preferences? We address this question by studying the Tea Party movement in the United States, which rose to prominence through ...
    • Why Has Regional Convergence in the U.S. Stopped? 

      Ganong, Peter Nathan; Shoag, Daniel W (John F. Kennedy School of Government, 2012)
      The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decrease in the rate of income convergence across U.S. states. This decline coincides with a similarly substantial decrease in population flows to wealthy states. We develop a ...